The relationship between concealed carry licenses and firearm homicide in the US: a reciprocal county-level analysis

R Stansfield, D Semenza, I Silver - Journal of urban health, 2023 - Springer
This study investigates the reciprocal county-level relationship between the number of
concealed carry weapon (CCW) licenses issued and homicides between 2010 and 2019 in …

Firearm dealers and local gun violence: A street network analysis of shootings and concentrated disadvantage in Atlanta

DC Semenza, E Griffiths, J Xu… - Journal of research in …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives Examine the spatial relationship between firearm dealers and shootings in
Atlanta. Methods We combine data from the Atlanta Police Department (APD), the Bureau of …

Firearm availability, homicide, and the context of structural disadvantage

DC Semenza, R Stansfield, T Steidley… - Homicide …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines how legal and illegal firearm availability correspond to subsequent
rates of firearm and non-firearm homicide in 226 US cities from 2010 through 2017. We also …

Licensed firearm dealers, legal compliance, and local homicide: A case study

R Stansfield, D Semenza, J Xu… - Criminology & Public …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary This study uses a combination of tract‐level and street network‐level
analyses to examine:(1) the overall association between federally licensed firearm dealers …

[HTML][HTML] Firearm availability and police shootings of citizens: a city level analysis of fatal and injurious shootings in California and Florida

JA Shjarback, DC Semenza, R Stansfield - Injury epidemiology, 2023 - Springer
Background A growing body of research has found a link between firearm availability and
police shootings of citizens across place. The problem, however, is that the previous studies …

Geographic and demographic differences in the proportion of individuals living in households with a firearm, 1990-2018

AR Morral, R Smart, TL Schell, B Vegetabile… - JAMA network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Measures of the proportion of individuals living in households with a firearm
(HFR), over time, across states, and by demographic groups are needed to evaluate …

Examining the policy effects of Arizona's 2016 pre-emption law on firearm suicide rates in the greater Tucson area: an observational study

EV Goldstein, LC Prater - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective In 2016, Arizona enacted SB 1487 to nullify Tucson's ordinance permitting the
municipality to destroy confiscated and forfeited firearms and instead require the firearms to …

[HTML][HTML] Fallacy of attributing the US firearm mortality epidemic to mental health

A Bleyer, SE Siegel, J Estrada, CR Thomas Jr - PLoS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Background Annual global data on mental disorders prevalence and firearm death rates for
2000–2019, enables the US to be compared with comparable counties for these metrics …

An introduction to Bayesian spatial smoothing methods for disease mapping: modeling county firearm suicide mortality rates

EL Gause, AE Schumacher, AM Ellyson… - American journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This article introduces bayesian spatial smoothing models for disease mapping—a specific
application of small area estimation where the full universe of data is known—to a wider …

Associations between gun violence exposure and suicide mortality rates in US counties

K Christopoulos - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2024 - Springer
Purpose: Gun violence traumatizes communities and places a heavy burden on the mental
health of those exposed. This ecological study examines the association between gun …