+ Use of the modified Delphi technique to identify and rate home injury hazard risks and prevention methods for young children
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Katcher, M. L. / Meister, A. N. / Sorkness, C. A. / Staresinic, A. G. / Pierce, S. E. / Goodman, B. M. / Peterson, N. M. / Hartfield, P. M. / Schirmer, J. A.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional
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CHILDREN -- Wounds & injuries, CHILDREN'S accidents, DELPHI method, ENVIRONMENTAL health, HOME accidents
34 injury prevention experts were interviewed using the Delphi method, a process aimed at achieving consensus among experts, to determine the most important injury hazards in each area of the home and...
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+ Firearm Violence Exposure and Serious Violent Behavior
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Bingenheimer, Jeffrey B. / Brennan, Robert T. / Felton, J. Earls
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Science
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Local, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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CHICAGO (Ill.), CHILD psychology, LONGITUDINAL method, TEENAGERS, Violence
A three-year study of 1,571 adolescents from 78 neighborhoods in Chicago was conducted in order to estimate the cause and effect relationship between exposure to firearm violence and subsequent...
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+ Evaluation of age-appropriate firearm safety interventions
- Author:
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Howard, P. K.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Pediatr Emerg Care
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Education/Counseling, Students
- Keywords:
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Age Factors, Child Behavior, Health Education/ methods, Pediatric Nursing/methods, Safety
The authors compared three possible methods to teach firearm safety to children. 67 kindergarten and first grade students were divided into four groups and tested about their firearm safety knowledge...
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+ Firearms and dementia: a smoking gun?
- Author:
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Lynch CA / Moran M / Lawlor BA
- Date:
- 2008
- Publication:
- Int J Geriatr Psychiatry
- Topics:
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Age Group, Legislation and Policy, Mental Health, Ownership
- Keywords:
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Aged, Cognition Disorders/etiology, Dementia/diagnosis/ psychology, Firearms/legislation & jurisprudence, Risk Assessment/methods
Compared to psychiatric illnesses, which are generally relapsing and remitting, dementias are characterized by progressive cognitive and functional decline and often involve behavioral and psychological...
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+ Female suicides in Diyarbakir, Turkey
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Goren S / Subasi M / Tirasci Y / Ozen S
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Journal of Forensic Sciences
- Topics:
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Age Group, Gender, International, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Firearms, Hanging, Method, Turkey
The authors investigate the methods used of women suicides in Diyarbakir province, Turkey, between 1996 and 2001, using post mortem investigation and autopsy records. They found that 58% of suicides were...
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+ Comparative study about methods of suicide between Japan and the United States
- Author:
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Ojima T / Nakamura Y / Detels R
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Journal of Epidemiology
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Gender, International, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Firearms, Hanging, Japan, Method, UNITED States
The authors examined how methods of suicide differ in Japan and the United States, among races within the US, and between genders and age-groups, using vital statistics mortality data from 1999 for both...
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+ Fatal impact? The effects of emotional arousal and weapon presence on police officers' memories for a simulated crime
- Author:
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Hulse, Lynn M. / Memon, Amina
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Legal & Criminological Psychology
- Topics:
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Crime, Law Enforcement
- Keywords:
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CRIME, EMOTIONS, MEMORY, SIMULATION methods, police officers
In order to investigate the effects of emotional arousal and weapon presence on the completeness and accuracy of police officers’ memories, 70 police officers were shown either a simulated domestic dispute...
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+ COMMUNITIES, STREET GUNS AND HOMICIDE TRAJECTORIES IN CHICAGO, 1980-1995: MERGING METHODS FOR EXAMINING HOMICIDE TRENDS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME
- Author:
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Griffiths E / Chavez JM
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Criminology
- Topics:
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Crime, Criminology, Local, Social Science
- Keywords:
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Chicago, HOMICIDE, Violence, methodology
The authors use two techniques for data analysis, i.e. Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and a group-based trajectory procedure, to classify the prevalence of violence in Chicago communities, using data...
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+ Using Placebo Laws to Test "More Guns, Less Crime
- Author:
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Helland E / Tabarrok A
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy
- Topics:
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Crime, Legislation and Policy, Public Health, Social Science
- Keywords:
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Gun carrying, Statistics, methodology, permit
The authors examine a study on the effect of shall-issue gun permit laws on crime. They review a controversial paper authored by Lott and critique it on its statistical assumptions, particularly regarding...
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+ Shooting Down the 'More Guns, Less Crime' Hypothesis
- Author:
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Ayres, Ian / Donohue Iii, John J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Stanford Law Review
- Topics:
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Crime, Criminology, Gun Carrying, Legislation and Policy, Ownership, Prevention
- Keywords:
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CRIME, gun, law, methodology, regression model
The authors examine the “more guns, less crime” hypothesis and argue that the evidence in favor of the hypothesis is limited, sporadic, and extraordinarily fragile; changes in methodological techniques...
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+ Estimating the Size of a Criminal Population from Police Records Using the Truncated Poisson Regression Model
- Author:
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van Der Heijden, Peter G. M. / Cruyff, Maarten / van Houwelingen, Hans C.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Statistica Neerlandica
- Topics:
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Crime, International, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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capture-recapture model, methodology, offender
The authors try to estimate the total number of offenders in the Netherlands using data from Dutch police records. They use the capture-recapture model from biology that is used to estimate animal abundance...
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