The number of Michigan teenagers killed by homicide jumped by 70% from 50 in 2019 to 85 in 2020. That’s more than double the 31% increase of all homicides for the same period, according to the FBI’s...
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Childhood exposure to gun violence increases risk of violent behavior as adults
Witnessing gun violence in real life or in fiction can have a mental toll on children. The effects, including using guns themselves, sometimes are seen many years later, according to a new...
Media Mention: Gun violence is preventable. Four steps Lansing could take to save lives.
Gun violence is at crisis levels in the Lansing area. Read the full article here on July 5, 2021 by the Lansing State Journal with strategies for prevention including interview with Marc Zimmerman,...
Cindy Ewell Foster, PhD; Preventing Youth Suicide, Michigan Minds Special Series: Firearm Injury Prevention
Cindy Ewell Foster is partnering with residents in the Upper Peninsula to develop a firearm safety education program that aims to reduce morbidity and mortality among youth. Listen to this 16 minute...
Media Mention: ‘We have to look in the mirror’: Professors say data, science has answers to ending gun violence
University of Michigan professors, Marc Zimmerman and Patrick Carter react to the mass shootings in Boulder, CO and Atlanta, GA. Read the full coverage here by Fox 17 West Michigan news on March 23,...
Media Mention: The frightening frequency of family mass shootings
Dr. April Zeoli is a leading expert on the relationship between intimate partner violence and gun violence. Her interdisciplinary research—which aims to bring together the fields of public health,...
Congressional Briefing: Countering Mass Shootings in the U.S. – September 17, 2019
Mass shootings have unfortunately become an all too common occurrence in the United States, claiming thousands of victims killed or injured in the last decade alone. Mass public attacks in...