Fewer Mass Shootings Occurred in 2020
By LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press
If there’s one silver lining in a year marred by a deadly pandemic, civil unrest, and economic and political turmoil, it’s this: The number of mass shootings that happened in public was the lowest in more than a decade.
Experts who research mass killings say there are two key reasons for the sharp drop-off. For one, most people avoided going out in public during coronavirus lockdowns, which meant fewer opportunities for slayings in workplaces or schools. For another, Americans were so focused on other tragedies that would-be gunmen were less likely to consider carrying ...
Source: JEMS Operations - December 30, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Mass Casualty Incidents MCI Source Type: news
Fewer Mass Shootings Occurred in 2020
By LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press
If there’s one silver lining in a year marred by a deadly pandemic, civil unrest, and economic and political turmoil, it’s this: The number of mass shootings that happened in public was the lowest in more than a decade.
Experts who research mass killings say there are two key reasons for the sharp drop-off. For one, most people avoided going out in public during coronavirus lockdowns, which meant fewer opportunities for slayings in workplaces or schools. For another, Americans were so focused on other tragedies that would-be gunmen were less likely to consider carrying ...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - December 30, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Mass Casualty Incidents MCI Source Type: news
Fewer Mass Shootings Occurred in 2020
By LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press
If there’s one silver lining in a year marred by a deadly pandemic, civil unrest, and economic and political turmoil, it’s this: The number of mass shootings that happened in public was the lowest in more than a decade.
Experts who research mass killings say there are two key reasons for the sharp drop-off. For one, most people avoided going out in public during coronavirus lockdowns, which meant fewer opportunities for slayings in workplaces or schools. For another, Americans were so focused on other tragedies that would-be gunmen were less likely to consider carrying ...
Source: JEMS Latest News - December 30, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Mass Casualty Incidents MCI Source Type: news
Fewer Mass Shootings Occurred in 2020
By LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press
If there’s one silver lining in a year marred by a deadly pandemic, civil unrest, and economic and political turmoil, it’s this: The number of mass shootings that happened in public was the lowest in more than a decade.
Experts who research mass killings say there are two key reasons for the sharp drop-off. For one, most people avoided going out in public during coronavirus lockdowns, which meant fewer opportunities for slayings in workplaces or schools. For another, Americans were so focused on other tragedies that would-be gunmen were less likely to consider carrying ...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - December 30, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Mass Casualty Incidents MCI Source Type: news
Fewer Mass Shootings Occurred in 2020
By LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press
If there’s one silver lining in a year marred by a deadly pandemic, civil unrest, and economic and political turmoil, it’s this: The number of mass shootings that happened in public was the lowest in more than a decade.
Experts who research mass killings say there are two key reasons for the sharp drop-off. For one, most people avoided going out in public during coronavirus lockdowns, which meant fewer opportunities for slayings in workplaces or schools. For another, Americans were so focused on other tragedies that would-be gunmen were less likely to consider carrying ...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - December 30, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Mass Casualty Incidents MCI Source Type: news
Nigeria: Country's First Criminologist, Olufemi Odekunle, Dies of Covid-19
[Daily Trust] The first professor of criminology in Nigeria and member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Olufemi Odekunle, is dead. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 30, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Linking Luojia 1-01 nightlight imagery to urban crime - Liu L, Zhou H, Lan M, Wang Z.
Various environmental criminology theories and empirical studies have linked the urban environment to crime. The crime pattern theory, in particular, argues that edges, either social or physical, affect crime. A recent study has combined both social and ph... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news
Reactive and proactive aggression in sexual homicide offenders - James J, Higgs T, Langevin S.
The objective of this study was to test whe... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 16, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Violence and Weapons Issues Source Type: news
Cyberstalking victimization: an empirical assessment of RAT among female Iranian college students - Kabiri S, Choi J, Shadmanfaat SMS, Lee J.
The role of routine activity theory (RAT) as a guiding theoretical approach to understand online victimization has been well documented. However, the recent emphasis in criminology on its applicability to online victimization has largely been based on evid... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
On the future of the individual longitudinal age-crime curve - Le Blanc M.
This article serves as our memorial for the outstanding contribution of Rolf Loeber to developmental criminology. His salient paper on the future of the study of the age-crime curve (2012) is the focal point.
AIMS: Follow some research trai... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
What if they are all high-risk for attrition? Correlates of retention in a longitudinal study of reentry from prison - Clark KJ, Mitchell MM, Fahmy C, Pyrooz DC, Decker SH.
Longitudinal data are essential to research in criminology and criminal justice. Despite attrition's implications for validity, understanding its sources is underexplored empirically. We examine the correlates of retention using covariates organized into d... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Combining group-based interventions for intimate partner violence perpetrators with comorbid substance use: an Australian study of cross-sector practitioner views - Meyer S, Burley J, Fitz-Gibbon K.
The connection between intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration and problematic alcohol and/ or other drug (AOD) use has been well established in public health, social work and criminology research. Despite the overwhelming evidence of the correlation ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Perceived peer delinquency, proactive criminal thinking, neighborhood disorder, and serious offending: moderated mediation and theoretical integration - Walters GD.
This paper illustrates how theoretical integration in criminology might be achieved, in part, through the use of such research methodologies as mediation and moderation. Analyzing data from the first three waves of the National Youth Survey (N = 1725, 53.2... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
When being bad is good? Bringing neutralization theory to subcultural narratives of right-wing violence - Colvin S, Pisoiu D.
Bringing together terrorism studies, subcultural theory, and narrative criminology, we here test the thesis that neutralization theory might be (further) developed to provide a framework for understanding stories of ideologically informed subcultural viole... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Violence and Weapons Issues Source Type: news
Exploring the potential association between gang membership and health outcomes in a longitudinal sample of youth and young adults - Rima D, Sholpan M, Gulzagira A, Meruert B, Beaver KM.
PURPOSE
Health criminology is an emerging line of inquiry that has focused on the association between crime/criminality and health outcomes. The current study sought to add to this literature by examining the potential connection between gang membership a... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
