Updated evidence and policy developments on reducing gun violence in America / / edited by Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH and Jon S. Vernick, JD, MPH, Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
In 2013--in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School--Johns Hopkins University Press published Reducing Gun Violence in America, a collection of essays written by the world's leading experts on gun violence. Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violenc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (53 p.) |
| Notes: | "A Johns Hopkins Digital Short"--Cover. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Daniel W. Webster and Jon S. Vernick
- 3. Update : thinking differently about mental illness, violence risk, and gun rights / Jeffrey W. Swanson and Allison G. Robertson
- 4. Update : enactment of legislation to protect victims of domestic violence : a story of state successes / April M. Zeoli and Shannon Frattaroli
- 6. Update : broadening denial criteria : new developments / Garen J. Wintemute
- 7. Update : comprehensive background checks : new evidence and rethinking "comprehensive" / Garen J. Wintemute
- 8. Update : preventing the diversion of guns to criminals through effective firearm sales laws / Daniel W. Webster, Jon S. Vernick, Emma E. McGinty, and Ted Alcorn
- 10. Update : adequate oversight of licensed firearm dealers remains a problem / Jon S. Vernick and Daniel W. Webster
- 11. Update : enforcing federal laws against firearms traffickers : policy and legislative progress in 2013 / Anthony A. Braga and Peter L. Gagliardi
- 13. Update : personalized guns progress report / Stephen P. Teret
- 18. Update : the Second Amendment / Lawrence E. Rosenthal and Adam Winkler
- 19. Update : Public opinion on gun policy following the Newtown mass shooting and the disconnect with political action / Emma E. McGinty, Daniel W. Webster, Jon S. Vernick, and Colleen L. Barry.