Despite growing interest in understanding how social factors drive poor health outcomes,
many academics, policy makers, scientists, elected officials, journalists, and others …

Abstract Purpose As the United States enters a demographic landscape where racial and
ethnic minorities will represent more than half of the adolescent population, this current state …

Objective To apply discovery-based computational methods to nationally representative
data from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions' Youth Risk Behavior …

Past research exploring correlates to gunshot wound fatality have focused on the distance
between the victim/incident location and trauma care facilities. Far less is known regarding …

When the NIBRS data were introduced by the FBI, they were welcomed as representing a
potential revolution in US crime statistics. More than two decades later, however …

Amidst the more than 38,000 firearm related deaths in the United States annually, academic
researchers, policy makers, and the general public often lack a basic understanding as to …

The code of the street and low self-control are prominent theories of crime. However, there is
no research that examines if these criminogenic dispositions inform each other over time …

The current study will add to the literature on public attitudes toward law enforcement by
assessing the individual and contextual-level predictors of one of the key concepts in police …

Risk and protective factors for firearm assault (FA) have been established, but little is known
about factor preceding transitions in FA behavior. We modeled covariate effects on …

Studies consistently find lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning youth are more likely than
other youth to experience discrimination, fear for their safety, and be victimized at school. We …