Racism-related stressors, from experiences of both implicit and explicit racial discrimination
to systemic socioeconomic disadvantage, have a cumulative impact on Black Americans' …

Importance Firearm injury is a major public health burden in the US, and yet there is no
single, validated national data source to study community firearm violence, including firearm …

Importance Much is unknown about how individual and neighborhood factors converge in
the association with risk for violent reinjury and violence perpetration. Objectives To …

Introduction Neighborhood violence is an adverse childhood experience which impacts
millions of US children and is associated with poor health outcomes across the life course …

The COVID-19 pandemic has perhaps been the defining event worldwide in the 21st
century, impacting all people and all facets of life. The consequences of the pandemic have …

Vacant and abandoned buildings are common features in many post-industrial US cities,
and are consistent predictors of violence. Demolition programs are regularly employed as …

Urban greenspace (UGS) has been recently linked to public safety. Criminologists, however,
have been largely absent from the discussion about this association, despite having …

Objective Neighborhood concentration of racial, income, education, and housing deprivation
is known to be associated with higher rates of hypertension. The objective of this study is to …

Youth interpersonal firearm violence disproportionately affects Black youth, with residential
racial segregation as a key determinant. Racially segregated neighborhoods, which are …

Trauma during pregnancy is the leading cause of non-pregnancy-related maternal deaths,
with some due to injuries from firearms. It was the purpose of this study to characterize the …