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• Neighborhood Heat Exposure and Urban Gun Violence

  This study will assess whether variations in daily temperature generate different effects on gun violence risk in cities and neighborhoods that experience heat more severely.

  Grant Amount

  $50,000

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun Violence

• Assessing Spillover Effects of Drug Markets on Gun Violence Across a Network of Neighborhoods in Three Cities

  This study will investigate the role that drug markets play in the distribution of gun violence across routine mobility-based networks of neighborhoods in three U.S. cities.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun Violence

• The Age-Graded Interaction between Individual Propensity and Situational Factors Associated with Urban Gun Violence Among a High-Risk Youth Sample

  This study uses a longitudinal, within-individual design focusing on the age-graded nature of firearm offending with a high-risk youth sample. This study will also assess the moderation of situational factors on the links between individual risk factors and gun violence over time.

  Grant Amount

  $50,000

  Focus Areas

  Intervention Research

• Evaluating a Community-Based Violence Prevention Program: Impacts at the Individual and Community Level

  This study represents an evaluation of Aim4Peace (A4P), a comprehensive, multi-component community-based initiative supporting violence prevention and intervention in Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO). A4P includes multiple components aimed at detecting, interrupting, and/or preventing community violence and is guided by a community-based participatory approach.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Intervention ResearchUrban Gun Violence

• Police Responses to Mental Health Crises

  Two complementary postdoctoral positions will use data from the National Violent Death System (NVDRS) to estimate how frequently and under what circumstances (1) individuals commit suicide during encounters with police and (2) individuals who have mental health problems or suicidal thinking are killed by police.

  Grant Amount

  $100,000

  Focus Areas

  Gun SuicideOfficer-Involved Shootings

• Trigger Points: Assessing the Causes of Gun Desirability in America

  This study will develop a novel measure, gun desirability. With this measure, the study will evaluate social theory via experimental designs and policy effectiveness via a longitudinal research design.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Policy Analysis

• Demographic, Temporal, Relational, and Environmental Dynamics Surrounding Gun Violence

  This study will investigate patterns in the demographic, temporal, relational, and environmental contexts in which individuals use guns to commit crimes prosecuted at a Southern District Attorney's Office.

  Grant Amount

  $50,000

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun ViolenceDomestic Gun Violence

• The Harms and Benefits Inventory (HBI): Development of a Validated Survey-Based Measure to Understand the Impact of Policy on Gun Users

  This study will develop and validate an inventory of questions that measures perceived harms and benefits experienced by gun owners related to public policy as well as explore the relationship between perceived harms and benefits and the presence or absence of firearm policy and firearm behaviors.

  Grant Amount

  $224,517

  Focus Areas

  Policy Analysis

• Guns and Suicide Among Black Americans

  This study will, for Black Americans, describe household gun ownership patterns, determine accurate proxies for state-level gun ownership when survey measures are not available, and analyze the state-level relationships between household gun ownership levels and rates of firearm suicide, non-firearm suicide, and overall suicide.

  Grant Amount

  $161,608

  Focus Areas

  Gun Suicides

• Intimate Partner Violence and Firearm Suicide: Using Text Mining to Bridge a Critical Gap in United States Data Systems

  This dissertation will use the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) and apply supervised machine learning to assess the proportion of firearm and non-firearm suicides that are precipitated by intimate partner violence in the United States.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Gun Suicides

  Domestic Gun Violence

• Engaging Machine Learning and Data Linkage to Understand Firearm Suicide Among Females

  This study will use the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) and the Washington Violent Death Reporting System (WA-VDRS) to develop a Natural Language Processing (NLP) method to better understand and contextualize female firearm suicide.

  Grant Amount

  $146,290

  Focus Areas

  Gun Suicides

• An Exploration of the Tactical and Strategic Uses of the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network in Detroit, Michigan

  This study will investigate the on-the-ground tactical and strategic uses of the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) in Detroit, Michigan, in an effort to help identify its potential to address firearm violence.

  Grant Amount

  $50,000

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun-Violence

• From Mass Shootings to Policymaking: A Complex Systems Approach

  This study aims to use causal analysis to understand how firearm-related policies, media output, gun ownership, and mass shootings influence one another.

  Grant Amount

  $50,000

  Focus Areas

  Policy Analysis

• Gun Violence and Desistance: The Role of Mentoring and Social Relations Among Early Violence Desisters

  This project explores gun violence desistance mechanisms at work among high-risk young people newly involved in the street outreach-based Cure Violence (CV) model.

  Grant Amount

  $50,000

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun-Violence

  Intervention Research

• Firearm Suicide Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities

  This study will provide the first estimates of the association between access to firearms and suicide risk among racial and ethnic minorities.

  Grant Amount

  $99,466

  Focus Areas

  Gun Suicides

• Dangerous Recipe: Ingredients Contributing to African-American Gun Violence

  This project will leverage the experience, knowledge and status of HBCUs in the African-American community to conduct research on attitudes toward guns ownership, possession, and usage by urban youth (15-24), through qualitative and quantitative analyses, in three or four cities.

  Grant Amount

  $999,972

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun-Violence

• Where Crime Guns Come From: Characterizing and Mapping Criminal Gun Markets

  This study will analyze two decades of crime gun recovery and theft records for the state of California, linked to in-state handgun sales and transfers of ownership. This will provide a comprehensive and detailed study of the nature, structure and dynamics of California’s crime gun markets and the sources of firearms used in crime.

  Grant Amount

  $797,886

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun Violence

• A Multi-State Evaluation of Extreme Risk Protection Orders: Implementation, Outcomes, and Jurisdictional Variations

  This study will examine extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws, characteristics of ERPO petitions, factors associated with petitions being granted or denied, and violence outcomes within and across 6 states—California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, and Washington—chosen to represent varying policy and cultural contexts.

  Grant Amount

  $1,357,336

  Focus Areas

  Policy Analysis

• Expanding and Improving Data on Nonfatal Gun Crime Incidents

  This study will collect data on nonfatal shootings (NFS) in cities with populations greater than 250,000, assess the association of NFS with measures of gun crime, estimate statistical models for predicting NFS, and estimate the effects of key law changes on NFS.

  Grant Amount

  $566,660

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun Violence

• Exposure to Guns and Gun Violence Across 25+ Years in the Lives of Multiple Birth Cohorts From Chicago

  This project addresses three challenges to research on urban gun violence: a lack of data on exposure to guns and gun violence over the extended life course; the understudied role of compounded disadvantage among individuals, families, and communities; and a lack of analytic focus on societal change.

  Grant Amount

  $1,536,790

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun Violence

• An Analytic Network Process Model to Estimate the Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks of Gun Policies and Violence Prevention Interventions for Legal Firearm Users

  This project aims to develop an analytic network process (ANP) model to collect information and measure the effect of gun polices and violence prevention intervention, on the interests of gun owners and users of guns. The approach can easily incorporate new information and changes in public sentiment.

  Grant Amount

  $30,000

  Focus Areas

  Policy Analysis

• The Impact of Police Violence and Prolonged Sociopolitical Conflict on Birth Outcomes

  Using vital statistics birth and fetal death data, this dissertation aims to measure the community-level impact of the killing of Mike Brown Jr. by Ferguson, Missouri police, and the subsequent militarized police response to sociopolitical unrest, on birth and pregnancy outcomes, particularly for Black mothers.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Officer-Involved Shootings

• The Role of Community and Individual Firearm Accessibility in Intentional Firearm Injury

  This dissertation aims to determine whether community-level firearm access is associated with individual risk of firearm violence victimization and, conversely, whether temporary removal of firearm access from high-risk individuals is associated with reduced firearm violence rates.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun Violence

• Pathways to Violence: Investigating the Relationship Between Defensive Gun Use and Victim Injury in the United States using National Surveillance Data

  This dissertation examines whether self-defensive gun use during an assault increases or decreases the risk of injury to the person using the gun defensively, holding other risk factors constant.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Defensive Gun Use

• Evaluating and Improving the Accuracy of ICD-Coded Hospital Data Systems in Estimating the Incidence of Nonfatal Firearm Injuries by Intent Type

  Estimates of nonfatal firearm injury drawn from routinely-collected hospital billing data underestimate assaults and overestimate unintentional injuries. This project will describe the extent to which these discrepancies occur across several states, identify the underlying reasons for biased estimates, and develop approaches that accurately classify hospital-treated firearm injuries.

  Grant Amount

  $741,067
  $140,000 (extension)

  Focus Areas

  Non-Lethal Firearm Injuries

• Comparing Firearm Proxies to Legal Firearm Prevalence in Massachusetts

  This dissertation introduces Legal Firearm Prevalence, a measure based on the population of firearm licenses in Massachusetts, in order to evaluate candidate proxies for firearm prevalence in a variety of research designs.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Policy Analysis

• The Impact of Gun-Free Zones in St. Louis, Missouri (2015-2019)

  This dissertation will evaluate if shootings are more or less likely to occur in gun-free zones versus areas where guns are allowed in St. Louis, Missouri between the years of 2015 and 2019.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Policy Analysis

• The Structure of Officer-Involved Shootings: Investigating the Social Transmission of Firearm Use

  This study will examine how officers' informal networks and working relationships shape behaviors and attitudes toward firearm use.

  Grant Amount

  $300,943

  Focus Areas

  Officer-Involved Shootings

• Bridging the gaps: Individual and Community-Level Risk Factors for Non-Lethal Firearm Injuries in the United States.

  This prospective, multi-center study will utilize the infrastructure of the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program (ACS TQIP) to develop a nationally-representative dataset of predominantly non-lethal firearm injuries, which will be used to better understand both individual and community-level risk factors associated with non-lethal firearm injuries.

  Grant Amount

  $711,218

  Focus Areas

  Non-Lethal Firearm Injuries

• Clearance Rates: Reducing Gun Violence by Improving Police Investigations

  This study will estimate the cost and impact of the Chicago Police Department's Area Technology Centers (ATCs) on arrest rates for homicide and nonfatal-shooting investigations. A related study will consider alternative measures of police performance in shooting cases, including variants of the 'clearance by arrest' rate.

  Grant Amount

  $670,684

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun Violence

  Intervention Research

• Building An Incident-Level Data Platform of Police Officer-Involved Firearm Shootings to Inform Police and Public Safety

  This study will collect and analyze incident-level data on officer-involved shootings, other officer use-of-force incidents, and violence against officers, and qualitative data through document review and agency staff interviews from 30 large law enforcement agencies with high officer-involved shootings.

  Grant Amount

  $867,239

  Focus Areas

  Officer-Involved Shootings

• Individual, Family, and Community Factors of Gun Violence Affecting California Communities

  This study will advance knowledge on gun violence related to firearm ownership, storage practices, and perceptions of gun safety, and fill critical data gaps about risk factors for gun suicide and urban gun violence related to understudied and disproportionately impacted subpopulations such as youth/young adults, veterans, immigrants, and LGBT people.

  Grant Amount

  $596,171

  Focus Areas

  Domestic Gun Violence

  Gun Suicides

  Urban Gun Violence

• A Comparison of Firearm-Related Intimate Partner Homicide in Missouri and Oregon: Prevalence, Risk, and the Effect of Firearm Regulations

  This study will analyze the extent to which firearm access, use, and ownership are risk factors for intimate partner homicide and intimate partner homicide-suicide in Missouri and Oregon, and will examine intersecting risk factors at the family, community, social and environmental levels.

  Grant Amount

  $1,334,200

  Focus Areas

  Domestic Gun Violence

  Policy Analysis

• Comprehensive Background Check Polices and Firearm Violence: Identifying Effective Design, Implementation, and Enforcement Strategies

  This study of comprehensive background check and permit-to-purchase policies will estimate the effectiveness of these policies at reducing firearm crimes, and examine how their design, implementation, and enforcement may change their effectiveness.

  Grant Amount

  $612,673

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun Violence

• “Got the Hammer on Me”: The Socio-Cultural Roots of Gun Use in the United States

  This study will interview 750 young people from Baltimore, Detroit, Las Vegas, New Orleans, and New York City to gain a better understanding of why youth in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods get involved with guns.

  Grant Amount

  $1,670,000

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun Violence

• Situational Decision-Making: A Training to Improve Officer Decision-Making in High-Stakes Situations

  In partnership with the Chicago Police Department, this project will develop and test a police training program to improve officer decision-making in high-stakes situations for the safety of officers and community members alike.

  Grant Amount

  $570,240

  Focus Areas

  Intervention Research

• Deploying Social Media Data to Inform Gun Policy

  This study will investigate the use of data from social media posts to measure gun-related outcomes in cities or states, and improve the data available to support rigorous gun policy research.

  Grant Amount

  $569,970

  Focus Areas

  Policy Analysis

• Harvard/Utah Suicide Database: Linking Data to Prevent Suicide

  This project will expand and improve a database linking public health and public safety data to investigate a series of questions about the circumstances of suicide.

  Grant Amount

  $643,150

  Focus Areas

  Gun Suicides

• Effect of Concealed Carry Laws on Firearm Injury

  This study will use hospital data to comprehensively describe the effects of changes in state concealed carry laws on gun-related deaths and injuries.

  Grant Amount

  $238,237

  Focus Areas

  Policy Analysis

• A National Survey of Police Officer-Involved Firearm Shootings

  A national survey of law enforcement agencies will determine the number of police officer-involved shootings—both shootings by officers of civilians and instances of officers being shot at—over the last 20 years, and the factors associated with these shootings.

  Grant Amount

  $649,869

  Focus Areas

  Officer-Involved Shootings

• Determinants of How Firearms Are Stored in Households with Children

  This study will use findings from a nationally representative survey to better understand the factors and interventions that may increase the use of safe firearm storage practices and reduce the number of gun-related suicides and injuries among children.

  Grant Amount

  $481,261

  Focus Areas

  Gun Suicides

• Variability in Assaultive, Unintentional, and Self-Gunshot Injury in U.S. States and State Policy Opportunities for Prevention

  This study will use a “hot-spotting” model to explore how state and county firearm mortality rates have changed over time and place, relative to implementation or repeal of state firearm policies.

  Grant Amount

  $707,181

  Focus Areas

  Urban Gun Violence

• Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation’s Know the Signs Programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District

  The three year study will evaluate programs designed to reduce gun violence in schools by teaching youth to recognize and report potential violence and mental health threats and by increasing social inclusion at school.

  Grant Amount

  $710,189

  Focus Areas

  Intervention Research

• Firearm-Related Mortality among Cohabitants of Gun Owners

  This study will measure the risks and benefits of having a handgun in the home for people who reside with handgun owners.

  Grant Amount

  $667,604

  Focus Areas

  Domestic Gun Violence

• Estimating the Impact of Three Categories of Gun-Related Laws

  Using data from 50 states over at least 48 years, this study will assess the impacts of three types of laws—background checks for gun-show sales, stand-your-ground and defense-of-habitation laws, and assault weapon restrictions—on gun homicides.

  Grant Amount

  $57,042

  Focus Areas

  Policy Analysis

• Advancing Gun Policy: Linking Multi-Source Data to Develop Micro-Longitudinal Trajectories of Domestic Violence Offenders’ Gun Use and Impact on Victims

  This study will capture the daily experiences of female domestic violence victims whose partners have guns, with the aim of understanding the impact of exposure to guns used in threatening, coercive, or intimidating ways.

  Grant Amount

  $2,102,887

  Focus Areas

  Domestic Gun Violence

• The Effects of Culturally Competent Messaging on Willingness to Engage in Firearms Means Safety

  This dissertation investigates the impact of culturally competent messaging on gun owners’ willingness to adopt firearm safety measures, such as storing firearms securely.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Intervention Research

• The Association Between Substance Use Disorders and Firearms Suicides in North Carolina Claims Data

  This dissertation will explore the association of both substance use disorder and long-term opioid therapy with gun suicide among Medicaid-insured North Carolinians and assess whether certain mental health diagnoses—especially depression and generalized anxiety disorder—affect this association.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Gun Suicides

• Perpetration of Interpersonal Violence, Incarceration, and Subsequent Risk for Firearm Suicide

  This dissertation will investigate the relationship between incarceration and subsequent firearm suicide over four decades in Washington State.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Gun Suicides

• Deadly Decisions: Policing Organizations, Use of Force Policies, and Officer-Involved Shootings

  This dissertation will assess how police agency organizational characteristics and use of force policies influence rates of officer-involved shootings.

  Grant Amount

  $25,000

  Focus Areas

  Officer-Involved Shootings