Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research is engaged in original scholarly research, policy analysis and agenda-setting public discourse. Our goal is to bring public health expertise and perspectives to the complex policy issues related to gun violence prevention.

An important part of the Center's mission is to serve as an objective and informative resource for the news media, thereby providing the public with accurate information about gun injuries, prevention strategies, and policies.

What's New?

Daniel Webster
Q Commons Baltimore
Feb 26
Why Collective Efficacy Makes Us Safer Than "Good Guys With Guns”
Gallery Church, Baltimore, MD

Beth McGinty
Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy Roundtable
March 10, 6-8PM
University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center, Domenici Auditorium
Albuquerque, NM

Daniel Webster
University of Delaware
National Public Health Week Seminar
April 6, 12:20 - 1:10
Newark, DE

Daniel Webster
Challenges and Opportunities for Reducing Gun Violence in America
Drexel University School of Public Health, Grand Rounds - Student Speaker Series
April 8, 2015, 4:30-5:30 pm
Philadelphia, PA

Daniel Webster
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Johns Hopkins University
Gun Violence in America: From Rhetoric to Real Solutions
Montgomery County Campus
Oct 15
Rockville, MD

Dr. Daniel Webster led the Second Term Seminar Series on Violence Prevention, sponsored by the Center for Gun Policy and Research, Center for Injury Research and Policy, and the Center for Youth Violence Prevention. 

Nov. 21.   Brian Frosh, Attorney General (Maryland): Challenges and Opportunities to Enforcing Maryland's Gun Laws (Sheldon Hall; 12:00-1:20PM). Additional speakers: Kathleen Campbell,  Office of the Maryland Attorney General; Capt. Delaine Brady, Maryland State Police; Lauren Baraldi, Gun Violence Task Force, Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office; Daniel Webster, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy & Research.  Watch the video here.
Nov. 24.  Tom Tyler, Yale University: Procedural Justice - Repairing Relations Between Police and Community.  Watch the video here.
Dec. 1.    Mallory O'Brien, City of Milwaukee and Marquette University: Homicide Review as a Tool for Data-Driven Prevention
Dec. 8.    Dave Sargent and Amy Johnson, MD Network against Domestic Violence; with Daniel Webster: Preventing Intimate Partner Homicides: Maryland's Lethality Assessment Program
Dec. 15.  Teny Gross, The Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence: Preventing Violence through Street Outreach and Conflict Mediation. Watch the video here
 

Center director Daniel Webster examines some hopeful possibilities that exist for a controversial public policy conundrum during his TEDMED talk. Please email Alicia Samuels (asamuels@jhu.edu) for information on how to watch. A copy of his talk (as prepared for delivery) has been posted here.

Center director Daniel Webster gave the Distinguished Faculty Seminar at the University of Michigan on October 16^th. Click here to watch his talk.

Center director Daniel Webster's research is highlighted in the Joyce Foundation's annual report. Listen to his story here.

Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence in America edited by Daniel W. Webster and Jon S. Vernick

This digital update to Reducing Gun Violence in America presents new research and policy developments in the effort to address the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States.  

An essential companion to Reducing Gun Violence in America, the reliable, empirical research and legal analysis in this e-book will help lawmakers, opinion leaders and concerned citizens identify policy changes to address gun violence that takes an average of 80 lives every day.

If you prefer to read the Update on your e-reader, please click here.

In the News

• Hartford Courant: Sandy Hook Panel Issues Safety, Mental Health Recommendations
• New York Times: Smart Guns Save Lives. So Where Are They?
• Baltimore Sun: How did accused parking-space killer get guns?
• New York Times: Fight on Guns Is Being Taken to State Ballots
• Washington Post: Guns sales spiked after the Ferguson unrest.  Will gun crime rise as well?
• Salon: George Zimmerman arrested for domestic violence again - will he finally lose his guns?
• PBS News Hour: Two years after Sandy Hook, how have gun laws changed?
• New York Times: Tracing the Gun Used to Kill 2 New York City Police Officers
• CBS News: Profile of a copy killing
• New York Times: Poll Finds That More Americans Back Gun Rights Than Stronger Controls
• Washington Post: Reminder: We still have no idea how often children accidentally shoot and kill people
• Mother Jones: Is Protecting Gun Rights Really a Growing Priority for Americans?
• TakePart.com: Why Don't We Study Gun Violence the Way We Study Car Accidents?
• WYPR: Maryland's Gun Laws
• Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Experts offer concrete steps for lowering gun violence
• U.S. News & World Report: Police Shootings Involving Toy Guns Spur Push for Regulation

Archive

Highlighted Research

Women with protective orders report failure to remove firearms from their abusive partners

Shootings are the most common method by which women are killed by an intimate partner in the United States. More

Fatally flawed study yields misleading results

A widely publicized study of the relationship between gun shows and gun violence is being cited in debates about the regulation of gun shows and gun commerce. We believe the study is fatally flawed. More

Risk factors for criminal use of handguns recently purchased under conditions that suggest trafficking

Our findings should help law enforcement's illegal gun units to consider which of the thousands of crime gun traces to follow up with an investigation of possible trafficking. More

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