Another deadly shooting has torn apart another American community. In Shreveport, Louisiana, a man shot and killed eight children and left two other adults gravely wounded. The killer was reportedly...
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Media Mention: Family-Led Firearm Strategy Goes ‘Beyond the Screen’ to Curb Suicide Risk
A family-centered approach to firearm safety can change how guns are kept in homes and may offer a new path to reducing suicide risk. A new University of Michigan study, published in Injury...
Media Mention: What happens when schools restrict phones? U-M Youth Policy Lab convenes national conference as new studies get underway
On April 10, the University of Michigan's Youth Policy Lab (YPL) convened a National School Cell Phone Policy Conference, inviting researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from Michigan and...
Media Mention: When Parents Pay for a Child’s Violence
The father of a school shooter was convicted of murder. What is lost and gained by the new precedent? Dr. Justin Heinze speaks with Christianity Today about youth violence prevention and how new...
Summary for Patients: Multisite External Validation of a Clinical Screening Tool for Interpersonal Firearm Violence Risk
What is the problem and what is known about it so far? Young adults seen in the emergency department are at increased risk for firearm violence, either as victim or shooter. However, there is no...
Michigan firearm injury data now available in near-real-time
A key barrier to addressing firearm injury in the United States is the lack of timely data. Through a new and nearly real-time system developed at the University of Michigan, injury prevention...
Media Mention: Detailed data on Michigan’s red flag law gun seizure cases gets sparse
Lansing — A change in the way court systems are reporting Extreme Risk Protection Order data makes it difficult to assess what specific circumstances across the state are triggering the confiscation...
Media Mention: New England students utilize Sandy Hook Promise tools for safety
One day before prom, in an advanced placement government classroom at Oakdale High School southeast of Frederick, Maryland, a group of students gathered to film the school’s morning announcement....
Media Mention: Preventing tragedy: How communities can use extreme risk protection orders to save lives
Protecting every member of Michigan Technological University’s community is top of mind for Reid DeVoge, deputy chief of Public Safety and Police Services. So last year, following the loss of a...
Geographic Patterns of Firearms with Short Time-to-Crime in the U.S. and the Americas, 2015–2023
Weigend Vargas, E., & Goldstick, J. E. (2026). Geographic patterns of firearms with short time-to-crime in the U.S. and the Americas, 2015–2023. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 108,...
Timing patterns of interpersonal violence, mental health and school attack tips submitted by youth to a statewide anonymous reporting system
Thulin, E. J., Bitar, M.-E., Stilwell, S., French, A., & Heinze, J. (2026). Timing patterns of interpersonal violence, mental health and school attack tips submitted by youth to a statewide...
Media Mention: Thoughts don’t kill people, but study suggests options for keeping guns from doing so
Millions of Americans have thought about shooting someone, a new University of Michigan study finds. And if they didn’t already own a firearm, some of them have thought about getting one to make...