+ Reductions In Firearm-Related Mortality And Hospitalizations In Brazil After Gun Control
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de Souza, Maria de Fátima Marinho / Macinko, James / Alencar, Airlane Pereira / Malta, Deborah Carvalho / de Morais Neto, Otaliba Libânio
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- Health Affairs
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Homicide, Law Enforcement, Legislation and Policy, Prevention, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Brazil, GUN control
In October 2003, Brazil passed laws making it illegal to own unregistered guns, to carry guns outside one’s home or business, to sell guns without a background check, and to buy a gun before the age of...
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+ Guns killing our children: a status report
- Author:
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Velsor-Fredrich, B.
- Date:
- 2001
- Publication:
- J Pediatr Nurs
- Topics:
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Adolescent, Prevention
- Keywords:
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Adolescents, GUN control, Health care providers, liscenses
This report provides a brief overview of teen gun deaths in the U.S. and legislation and programs aimed at reducing gun violence among teens. The author cites studies that attribute the rising rate of...
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+ Gun-control legislation and the impact on suicide
- Author:
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Leenaars, A. A.
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- Crisis-the Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention
- Topics:
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Age Group, Gender, International, Legislation and Policy, Prevention, Suicide
- Keywords:
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GUN control
The author examines the efficacy of gun control laws in reducing suicide via restricting access to lethal means in a suicidal individual’s environment. Controlling for various socioeconomic factors, gun...
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+ The impact of gun control (Bill C-51) on suicide in Canada
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Leenaars, A. A. / Moksony, F. / Lester, D. / Wenckstern, S.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Death Studies
- Topics:
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Age Group, Gender, International, Legislation and Policy, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Canada, GUN control, Review, Suicide
The authors reviewed previously published studies on the effect of Canada’s Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1977 (Bill C-51) on suicide rates by age and gender. They also present the findings of two new...
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+ The Million Mom March: engaging the public on gun policy
- Author:
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Wallack, L. / Winett, L. / Nettekoven, L.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- J Public Health Policy
- Topics:
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Age Group, Education/Counseling, Gender, Legislation and Policy, Public Opinion
- Keywords:
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Children, GUN control, advocacy, gun, woman
The authors read more than 200 news accounts and conducted over 40 interviews with key participants in the May 14 (Mother’s Day) 2000 Million Mom March, probably the most successful public advocacy event...
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+ Where the Guns Come From: The Gun Industry and Gun Commerce
- Author:
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Wintemute, Garen J.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- The Future of Children
- Topics:
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Age Group, Legislation and Policy, Supply
- Keywords:
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Commerce, Firearms, Gun Control Laws, Weapons, gun markets
The author examines how the gun industry works in the United States, especially as it actively promotes and makes guns accessible to children. He discusses how markets work, focusing on the lacking regulation...
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+ Children and Guns: Advocacy Groups Speak Out
- Author:
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Forman, James, Jr.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- The Future of Children
- Topics:
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Age Group, Public Opinion, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Firearms, Gun Control Laws, Weapons, advocacy, youth access
The author examines the attitudes of gun control and pro-gun advocates towards child and youth access to guns, using data from telephone interviews with 29 such advocates from September to December 2001...
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+ Representations of Handguns by Young Adults in the US and UK
- Author:
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John E. Puddifoot, Leslie / Claire A. Cooke, Leslie
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
- Topics:
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Age Group, Gender, International, Public Opinion, Social Science, Students
- Keywords:
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COLLEGE students, GREAT Britain, GUN control, UNITED States, culture.
The authors examined the effect of location and gender on the attitudes to handguns on nine dimensions (whether handguns represent freedom, independence, power, danger, control, violence, or madness,...
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+ Gun Availability and Violent Crime: New Evidence from the National Incident-Based Reporting System
- Author:
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Stolzenberg, L. / D’Alessio, S.J.
- Date:
- 2000
- Publication:
- Social Forces
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Criminology, Gun Carrying, Law Enforcement, Legislation and Policy
- Keywords:
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GUN control, VIOLENT crimes, Youth, firearm availability, gun crimes
Using data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System for South Carolina from 1991 to 1994, the authors explore how gun availability is related to violent crime, gun crime, youth gun crime and...
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+ A Year after Columbine Public Looks To Parents More Than Schools to Prevent Violence
- Author:
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
- Date:
- 2000
- Publication:
- Non-journal
- Topics:
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Age Group, Gun Carrying, Public Opinion, Students, U.S. / National.
- Keywords:
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Child safety, GUN control, Legislation, elementary school education, national surveys, parent responsibility, parents, public opinion, school safety, schools, telephone surveys, violence
A total of 1000 adults nationwide, including 283 parents of children aged 5 to 17 years, were interviewed by telephone from April 12 to16, 2000, one year after a high school shooting in Littleton, Colorado,...
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+ The impact of gun control (Bill C-51) on homicide in Canada
- Author:
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Leenaars, Antoon A. / Lester, David
- Date:
- 2001
- Publication:
- Journal of Criminal Justice
- Topics:
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Age Group, Homicide, Legislation and Policy
- Keywords:
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Canada, Gun control law, HOMICIDE
The authors review studies of the effects of Canada’s 1977 gun control legislation (Bill C-51) on the overall homicide rate, as well as on the rate of firearm homicide by age group and gender. Then,...
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