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Predicting Intimate Partner Violence Reassault and Homicide: A Practitioner’s Guide to Making Sense of Predictive Validity Statistics

Predicting Intimate Partner Violence Reassault and Homicide: A Practitioner’s Guide to Making Sense of Predictive Validity Statistics

Publications

Millan AbiNader and colleagues examine a key issue for social workers intervening on intimate partner violence: understanding the likelihood of future reassault and potential lethality. This practice update aims to help practitioners understand the utility and...
Neighborhood segregation, tree cover and firearm violence in 6 U.S. cities, 2015–2020

Neighborhood segregation, tree cover and firearm violence in 6 U.S. cities, 2015–2020

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Gina South, Michelle Kondo, and colleagues found that even after adjusting for neighborhood privilege, more tree cover was linked to less violence. Takeaways and future directions are discussed in an LDI blog post. Read the full publication
Neighborhood segregation, tree cover and firearm violence in 6 U.S. cities, 2015–2020

Neighborhood segregation, tree cover and firearm violence in 6 U.S. cities, 2015–2020

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Gina South, Michelle Kondo, and colleagues simulate the possible effects of tree equity programs in 6 U.S. cities to mitigate structural determinants of firearm violence. Read the full publication
The Epidemiology of Firearm Injuries in the US: The Need for Comprehensive, Real-time, Actionable Data

The Epidemiology of Firearm Injuries in the US: The Need for Comprehensive, Real-time, Actionable Data

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Elinore Kaufman and Kit Delgado wrote a viewpoint paper for JAMA’s Special Issue on Firearm Violence, which summarizes current data on firearm injuries in the US, discusses the limitations of available data sources, and proposes measures for a comprehensive...
USA Today: Livestreamed violence compounds America’s horror and inspires copycats, experts say. When will it stop?

USA Today: Livestreamed violence compounds America’s horror and inspires copycats, experts say. When will it stop?

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Desmond Upton Patton was quoted in a USA Today article about the impacts of violence being recorded and shared online. “I’ve been having the same conversation for the last decade,” speaking about the impact of social media on mental health and violence. “We need to...
Unexplained Variation in Firearm Deaths Points to Opportunities

Unexplained Variation in Firearm Deaths Points to Opportunities

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Following the publication of a recent article in JAMA Network Open with a team of PISC Scholars, Elinore Kaufman and Michelle Degli Esposti describe in an LDI blog post how the findings identify opportunities for teasing out what makes the difference in firearm...
Rethinking “recidivism” in firearm injury research and prevention

Rethinking “recidivism” in firearm injury research and prevention

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Sara Jacoby led a commentary that argues “recidivism” as a less than ideal metric for evaluating success in tertiary firearm injury prevention, as well as the insinuation it makes about racialized criminality and how it reinforces stigma. Read the full...
Historical redlining and the epidemiology of present-day firearm violence in the United States: A multi-city analysis

Historical redlining and the epidemiology of present-day firearm violence in the United States: A multi-city analysis

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Chris Morrison, Sara Jacoby, and colleagues add a layer of understanding to the impact of historical racist redlining practices on present day firearm violence by assessing the relationship in different cities and the dose-responsive relationship on a zip code level....
Differential exposure to gun or knife violence over two decades is associated with sibling differences in depression

Differential exposure to gun or knife violence over two decades is associated with sibling differences in depression

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Joel Fein and colleagues used a nationally representative sample to assess the relationship between gun or knife violence exposure and depression, providing evidence for violence exposure as a cause of depression. Read the full publication
Association Between Geospatial Access to Care and Firearm Injury Mortality in Philadelphia

Association Between Geospatial Access to Care and Firearm Injury Mortality in Philadelphia

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Elinore Kaufman and a host of PISC Scholars past and present, as well as other colleagues, demonstrated the association between longer ground transport time and greater odds of death due to interpersonal firearm violence, a potentially modifiable factor to improve...
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