Black adults—particularly Black women—with higher levels of education and experiences of discrimination and crime are more likely to own a firearm, according to a study by the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at ...
Social Sciences
May 16, 2023
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Black mothers are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to the mental and physical harms of stress from living with gun violence in America.
Social Sciences
May 3, 2023
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New research in Contemporary Economic Policy reveals that school shootings may worsen mental health in surrounding communities and increase health system costs.
Political science
Mar 8, 2023
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The release of footage showing the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police and protests in Atlanta have renewed public debate on the issues of police brutality and police reform.
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2023
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Two newly published articles by researchers at the University at Albany and Northwestern University show the extent to which civilians working to intervene in and de-escalate street violence face job-related violence themselves, ...
Social Sciences
Jan 9, 2023
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The most recent shooting involving a Toronto high school student this October highlighted a rising problem with gun violence in North American schools. In Canada's largest city, it raised alarms about how the crisis is getting ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2022
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Add the name of Takeoff, a member of the popular rap trio Migos, to the ever-growing list of rappers, recent and past, tragically and violently killed.
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2022
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Negligent landlords—those who allow their properties to become dilapidated despite having tenants—are a significant predictor of violence in Richmond neighborhoods, even more than personal property tax delinquency, population ...
Social Sciences
Sep 14, 2022
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Aboriginal people are 15 times more likely than other Australians to experience homelessness due to racism, dispossession of land, profound economic disadvantage and cultural oppression, according to a new report released ...
Social Sciences
Aug 10, 2022
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This week's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas, marked the 213th mass shooting and the 27th school shooting thus far this year. That's just seven fewer school shootings than in all of 2021 and more than in 2018, 2019 or 2020.
Social Sciences
May 27, 2022
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