The past 15 years has seen a considerable amount of interest and effort being put into
developing strategies to prevent problem gambling. Unfortunately, the development …

Living in poverty and living in areas of concentrated poverty pose multiple risks for child
development and for overall health and wellbeing. Poverty is a major risk factor for several …

Background Violent death is a serious problem in the United States. Previous research
showing US rates of violent death compared with other high-income countries used data that …

Background Several past studies have found that media reports of suicides and homicides
appear to subsequently increase the incidence of similar events in the community …

Violence is a serious public health issue in the US This research compares the US and other
high-income countries in terms of violent death. We used data from the World Health …

Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition offers a comprehensive and up-to-date
overview of the social psychology of aggression, covering all the relevant major theories …

Importance Over 30 000 people die annually in the United States from injuries caused by
firearms. Although most firearm laws are enacted by states, whether the laws are associated …

Objectives. We examined the relationship between levels of household firearm ownership,
as measured directly and by a proxy—the percentage of suicides committed with a firearm …

" This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and
criminological theories in an international perspective.... It is more than likely that this book …

Background Firearm injuries are a major cause of mortality in the USA. Few recent studies
have simultaneously examined the impact of multiple state gun laws to determine their …