+ 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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+ Guns, Gangs, and Gossip: An Analysis of Student Essays on Youth Violence
- Author:
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Zimmerman MA / Morrel-Samuels S / Wong N / Tarver D / Rabiah D / White S
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Journal of Early Adolescence
- Topics:
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Age Group, Gender, Legislation and Policy, Local, Public Health, Students
- Keywords:
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Michigan, Student, Violence, essay
The authors examined youth’s perspectives on violence, qualitatively and quantitatively analyzing essays from a national essay contest titled “Do the Write Thing” that were written by seventh- and eighth-grade...
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+ The impact of gun control (Bill C-51) on suicide in Canada
- Author:
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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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+ TANF workers' responses to battered women and the impact of brief worker training - What survivors report
- Author:
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Saunders, D. G. / Holter, M. C. / Pahl, L. C. / Tolman, R. M. / Kenna, C. E.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Violence Against Women
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Domestic Violence, Education/Counseling, Gender, Legislation and Policy, Ownership
- Keywords:
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Domestic Abuse, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
The study reports the results of a program to increase the frequency with which Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF, welfare) caseworkers screen women clients for domestic violence. The authors...
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+ Do law restricting access to firearms by domestic violence offenders prevent intimate partner homicide?
- Author:
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Vigdor, Elizabeth Richardson / Mercy, James A.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Evaluation Review
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Domestic Violence, Gender, Homicide, Legislation and Policy, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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CONFISCATIONS, CRIME, FAMILY violence, FIREARMS -- Law & legislation, HOMICIDE
The authors examined counts of intimate partner homicides by state from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Supplementary Homicide Report files for the years 1982 through 2002 in order to analyze the...
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+ Community Firearms, Community Fear
- Author:
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Miller, M / Azrael, D./ / Hemenway, D.
- Date:
- 2000
- Publication:
- Epidemiology
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Gender, Legislation and Policy, Ownership, Social Science.
- Keywords:
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Fear, Firearms, Gender, PSYCHOLOGY, Race, guns, race, risk, urban environment
Using data generated from a nationally representative random digit-dial telephone survey, the authors examine how perceptions of safety are influenced as more people in a community acquire firearms. 51%...
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+ Gender, Guns, and Legislating: An analysis of state legislative policy preferences
- Author:
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Stucky TD / Miller GM / Murphy LM
- Date:
- 2008
- Publication:
- Journal of Women Politics & Policy
- Topics:
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Gender, Legislation and Policy
- Keywords:
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Female, GUN control, Legislators
The authors used data from the 2000 National Political Awareness Test –an annual survey that asks federal and state legislators which items they will support if they are elected – to examine whether gender...
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+ State firearm laws and rates of suicide in men and women
- Author:
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Conner, Kenneth R. / Zhong, Yueying
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- Topics:
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Gender, Legislation and Policy, State, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Method, Restriction, cross-sectional, firearm, gun
The authors examined the associations of state laws restricting firearms and incidence rates of suicide in men and women in this cross-sectional study, dividing states into three categories based on the...
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+ Rethinking the Political Participation Paradigm: The Case of Women and Gun Control
- Author:
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Goss, Kristin A.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Women & Politics
- Topics:
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Gender, Legislation and Policy, Public Health, Public Opinion, Social Science
- Keywords:
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GUN control, Million Mom March, activism, protest
The author examines the Million Mom March, a protest march for stricter gun control laws held in 2000, that aimed to recruit American women into gun control activism and to demonstrate the enormous support...
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+ High school students' attitudes about firearms policies
- Author:
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Vittes, K. A. / Sorenson, S. B. / Gilbert, D.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- J Adolesc Health
- Topics:
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Gender, Legislation and Policy, Students, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Attitude, firearm, gender differences, guns
The authors compared high school students’ attitudes about firearm policies with those of adults using information from the Hamilton Youth and Guns Poll, a national survey of high school students on their...
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