Westerman, H. B., Suarez, G. L., Richmond-Rakerd, L. S., Nusslock, R., Klump, K. L., Burt, S. A., & Hyde, L. W. (2024). Exposure to community violence as a mechanism linking neighborhood...
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Protocol for a nationwide case-control study of firearm violence prevention tactics and policies in K-12 schools
Buttar N, Rajan S, Klarevas L, Prins SJ, Heinze J, Cheung K, Rudolph KE, Goyal M, Zeoli A, Branas CC. Protocol for a nationwide case-control study of firearm violence prevention tactics and policies...
Media Mention: Southfield congregants take saws to guns in new buyback program
St. David's Episcopal Church announced its plan to partner with law enforcement and the anti-gun organization End Gun Violence Michigan to launch a series of six gun buyback events in churches...
Media Mention: Tip Lines Can Lower Violence Exposure in Schools
The most visible school security measures — police officers, cameras, metal detectors — have dominated research and public debate on school safety for decades. School administrators looking for the...
What parents in Michigan – and everywhere – should know about secure gun storage after the Crumbley convictions
Drs. April Zeoli and Justin Heinze join Dr. Frank E. Vandervort in this editorial, published in The Conversation, that speaks about the evidence base behind safe storage policies and other firearm...
Media Mention: Opinion: Youth gun offenses up 200% in Buncombe; gun violence is public health problem
According to the N.C. Department of Public Safety, firearms are the leading cause of injury-related death of children and young people in North Carolina. Last year, Gov. Roy Cooper announced...
Media Mention: Sufficiently Analogous Episode Two: U.S. v Rahimi and the future of Domestic Violence Protective Order Firearm Prohibitions
The Center’s director of law and policy, Kelly Roskam, JD, and law and policy advisor, Tim Carey, JD discuss U.S. v Rahimi. The upcoming decision from the Supreme Court could decide if those subject...
2024 National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms
The 2024 National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm Related Harms will highlight the current state of science and research on firearm injury prevention across the lifespan. Organized...
Podcast: How Greening Initiatives Can Help Promote Peace
In the latest episode of the XCEPT Breaking Cycles of Violence miniseries, Dr Omar Mohammed and Dr Marc Zimmerman, interviewed by Dr Nafees Hamid (King’s College London), discuss how greening and...
Exposure to violence predicts callous-unemotional traits and aggression in adolescence in the context of persistent ethnic-political conflict and violence
Docherty, M., Decrop, R., McManamon, B., Boxer, P., Dubow, E. F., & Huesmann, L. R. (2023). Exposure to violence predicts callous-unemotional traits and aggression in adolescence in the context...
Residential Racial Segregation and Youth Firearm Aggression: Neighborhood Disadvantage and Exposure to Violence as Mediators
Lee, D. B., Stallworth, P., Cunningham, R. M., Walton, M. A., Neblett, E. W., & Carter, P. M. (2024). Residential Racial Segregation and Youth Firearm Aggression: Neighborhood Disadvantage and...
Media Mention: Teachers worry about getting hurt on the job when they intervene in student fights
Dr. Justin Heinze speaks with NPR about school violence and how teachers are impacted. Listen to the conversation