Our systematic review on youth police violence exposure and traumatic stress is now online in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse! Thank you to the authorship team (named in thread) for your tireless work on this review journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15…

My Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence outlines the devastating impact of firearm violence on Americans. Firearm violence is pervasive: a staggering 54% of adults report they or their families have experienced a firearm-related incident. Surgeongeneral.gov/firearm-violen…

Trending in #Criminology: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Anti-feminist beliefs, adverse childhood experiences & intimate partner violence 2) Police Violence Exposure & Traumatic Stress Among Youth 3) Youth & Young Terror: Canadian Case Law & Carceral Dynamics (Crime and Delinquency) 4)

It's been a busy summer already for our San Antonio faculty! Alex Testa, PhD, Alexander Testa was in Houston recently to talk about firearm violence prevention at @riceuniversity's @bakerinstitute for Public Policy. #violenceprevention #publichealth

PFRH's Dylan B. Jackson contributed to this important study - the first of its kind to give a full demographic profile of the Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP) population.

There is no evidence connecting immigration and crime trends. #RNC2024 #FactCheck bit.ly/4dTGTlv

Our latest study from the Survey of Police-Adolescent Contact Experiences (SPACE) on Black youths' experiences with officer gunpoint in Baltimore City and their repercussions for mental health, now in the Journal of Research on Adolescence Society for Research on Adolescence onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Police violence is a systemic problem in the US – and it happens on a scale far greater than other wealthy nations. Is this how police in the "land of the free" should treat civilians?

📢New paper out today led by NJ Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers SPH postdoc Jen Paruk in Journal of Urban Health. In 9 states, we found that gun violence exposure is linked to poorer quality of life - overall, psych, environmental, physical, and social. Open access - please share!📢 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

1 in 5 youth in juvenile facilities haven’t even been found guilty or delinquent and are locked up before a hearing. Why are we holding legally innocent children in such a traumatizing environment? prisonpolicy.org//reports/youth…

Happy to share a new research letter out today in JAMA Network Open led by Alexander Testa w/ Karyn Fu, Dylan B. Jackson & Sandy McKay. Cumulative ACEs are linked to greater household firearm ownership among adults in Nevada. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

It was my pleasure to present with this unmatched group of impactful and generous scholars - thank you to Latesha K. Harris, BSN, RN, J’Mag Karbeah, PhD, MPH, and Sirry! Let's do this again next year!