🚨 Excited to spotlight the next generation of firearm researchers at the #2024FirearmResearchConf! A key goal of the Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms is to nurture emerging scholars shaping this field. 🎓 Meet Cami Rencken, PhD Candidate

The winner of the $5000 Greenwald Award for Firearm Violence Research Excellence is Stephen Billings of the University of Colorado for his work examining the relationships between concealed carry permits and crime. #2024FirearmResearchConf static1.squarespace.com/static/63924bb…

EVERYONE interested in criminal justice should read this. Thank you Shawn Bushway and Megan Denver for exploring one of the biggest myths out there - that most people who to prison recidivate. It's just not true - find out more in the Amer Soc of Crim cover article.

I started my career as a clinical psychologist working with the warm and brilliant David Shapiro, author of "Neurotic Styles" and other terrific and insightful books. I am saddened to learn he died this week.

The 2025 Greenwald Family $5000 Award for the best research paper on gun violence/injury prevention/gun policy is accepting nominations now through July 24, 2025. Qualitative and quantitative studies from all academic disciplines are eligible. firearmresearchsociety.org/2025-greenwald…

⁦Dan Semenza⁩ highlights the damage the administration is doing to our public safety infrastructure. commondreams.org/opinion/trump-…

Reminder to nominate the best research papers on firearm violence prevention or gun policy for the $5000 Greenwald Award.

Fact check: it is correct that in the most recent year of vital statistics data AR has a homicide rate twice that of CA. It’s basically true looking back over the last three or five years as well. AR has a big homicide problem, almost all of which concerns firearms homicides.

Federal science cuts aren’t just halting medical research or disrupting clinical trials. They are already costing us $8.1 billion and 35,000 jobs. The projected loss is $16 billion and 68,000 jobs every year. This reaches every corner of America.