Nearly two-thirds of all violence-related deaths among adolescents and young adults across the United States are caused by firearms. In an effort to reduce firearm injuries and deaths, a team of...
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Media Mention: How Mass Shootings Like Oxford Impact Communities and Mental Health
University of Michigan public health and psychology expert Dr. Marc Zimmerman talks about how mass violence affects everyone and how to cope on National Public Radio's WDET 101.9 FM in Detroit,...
Study: Community violence, views of police drive youth firearm carriage
In an effort to reduce firearm injuries and deaths, a team of University of Michigan researchers is partnering with hospitals and communities to better understand what motivates young people to...
Media Mention: Manslaughter charges against Michigan shooter’s parents break new legal ground
Reuters writes about the first case against parents of a teenager for failing to secure a gun used by a student in a school shooting. Read the full article.
Media Mention: Examining firearm violence in the wake of the Oxford shootings
Co-Director of the Institute for Firearm Injury prevention and Co-Principal Investigator of the National Center for School Safety, Marc Zimmerman talks with ABC Channel 7's WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan...
Stateside Podcast: When the shooter is a child
Listen to Michigan Radio's Stateside Podcast following the school shooting in Oxford, Michigan on December 1, 2021 including Dr. Marc Zimmerman, Co-director of the Institute for Firearm Injury...
U-M experts available to discuss prevention, aftermath of school shootings
University of Michigan experts can discuss school shootings and the aftermath in a community in the wake of the shootings Nov. 30, 2021 at Oxford High School in Michigan. Read more about the expert...
Media Mention: Most school shooters get their guns from home – and during the pandemic, the number of firearms in households with teenagers went up
Most school shooters obtain the firearm from home. And the number of guns within reach of high school-age teenagers has increased during the pandemic – highlighting the importance of locking...
Media Mention: Teenage homicides sharply rise in Michigan, FBI crime stats show
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...
Summer 2022 Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention Internships
The University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention is a new transdisciplinary institute that works to engage the breadth of expertise across the University of Michigan, with input...
$6M grant to advance youth firearm violence prevention research
A $6 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded to the University of Michigan will support researchers so they can partner with communities on innovative projects that...
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...