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Assessing Links Between Alcohol Exposure and Firearm Violence: A Scoping Review Update.
Alcohol Res
January 2025
Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York.
Background: Firearm violence remains a leading cause of death and injury in the United States. Prior research supports that alcohol exposures, including individual-level alcohol use and alcohol control policies, are modifiable risk factors for firearm violence, yet additional research is needed to support prevention efforts.
Objectives: This scoping review aims to update a prior 2016 systematic review on the links between alcohol exposure and firearm violence to examine whether current studies indicate causal links between alcohol use, alcohol interventions, and firearm violence-related outcomes.
Trends and Disparities in Non-fatal Firearm Injuries among Working-Age Adults in the United States, 2000-2021.
J Community Health
December 2024
Department of Public Health Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA.
Firearm-related injuries remain a significant public health issue in the United States, with patterns and trends among various age groups not well characterized. This study analyzed time series trends and disparities in firearm injury rates among U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDual pathways of concealed gun carrying and use from adolescence to adulthood over a 25-year era of change.
Sci Adv
December 2024
Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Most homicides in the United States are committed using a handgun, but little research examines gun carrying over critical stages of the life course and changing contexts of violence. Notably, although most of the handgun homicides are committed by adults, most research on concealed gun carrying focuses on adolescents in single cohort studies. Using more than 25 years of longitudinal multicohort data from Chicago, 1994-2021, we show that pathways of concealed gun carrying are distinct between adolescence and adulthood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFState firearm legislation and initiation of gun carrying in the USA.
Inj Prev
November 2024
Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
Objective: Early onset of gun carrying correlates with a heightened risk of violent offences and injuries. This research estimates the association between state firearm legislation and first-time handgun carrying in the USA. It further identifies specific policy measures that could be most effective in discouraging the onset of risky gun-carrying activities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Contextual factors that contribute to firearm injuries among children aged 0 to 10 are not well understood.
Methods: A retrospective review of the National Fatality Review-Case Reporting System was conducted for firearm deaths of children aged 0 to 10 from 2004 to 2020. Descriptive analyses characterized child and parent demographics, incident details, firearm characteristics, and firearm use.
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