Excited to be awarded funds together with Shadd Maruna and CaterinaGouvisRoman for a PAR project to collaborate with outreach workers and learn from them and the community about who and how to engage at-risk people on the streets. fundforasaferfuture.org/who-we-are/new…

“The information collected through this effort will help strengthen public health interventions.” FSF is honored to partner with Temple University to help build a safer future by reducing #GunViolence. Peter Simonsson, PhD Shadd Maruna CaterinaGouvisRoman scienmag.com/new-grant-give…

Violence and stigma: a qualitative exploration of judicial perceptions of defendants with psychiatric disorders tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Kicking off our Phila participatory action research study w/Cure Violence staff leaders and @UrbanBioethics Peter Simonsson, PhD Shadd Maruna CV staff will be interviewing non-engaged (with CV) individuals active in street violence and comparing to those engaged!

Great thread!

“Many popular ideas about evildoers seem to stem from tabloid news, rather than scientific evidence.” Quick and interesting read based on critical scholarship about psychopathy. wired.com/story/psychopa…

Field observations with Philly Cure Violence as they are engaging the community in Strawberry Mansion

Well-researched article on the blatant racism that still stains biosocial criminology research. A shameful part of our past and present undark.org/2023/01/25/cri…

1/ Big problems with this study. 1) Uses much larger area unit (Ward) than the intervention; 2) Doesn't include homicides;🤔3) Most analyses don't show DiD effects; 4) Doesn't consider other interpretations of the data that suggest positive CVI effects.

We just completed a study on Safe Streets Baltimore and found evidence it reduced gun violence ~20%. ROI between $7 to $19 for every $1 spent on the program.

Please share this Stoneleigh Emerging Fellow opportunity widely -looking for someone who is committed to capacity building efforts in the gun violence reduction sphere! Applications due 5/31.

What an incredible night! I am so #TempleProud of our Diamond Award winners, Community Health Workers from Temple Health & @UrbanBioethics. Their work reflects #TempleMed’s commitment to supporting our North Philly neighbors and eliminating health disparities. So well deserved!

So, Dr. Jill McCorkel and @fadergator made fun of me so badly for the last video I made (rightly so) that I made them appear in this new promo. Not as easy as they thought. Although the cinematography is far superior this time around. See you in Philly...

Check it out at V&O-ASC Division on Corrections and Sentencing @ascdic Comparing Reactive/Proactive Violence between Persons with and without Major Psychiatric Disorders in a Community Correctional Sample: A Pilot Study:tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

This thread will be dedicated to the victims of the mass shooting in Maine. Tricia Asselin, 53, worked part-time at Just-In-Time Recreation, a bowling alley. Although it was her day off, she was there bowling with her younger sister. She is remembered as being kind and generous.

Imagine discovering your preteen daughter had been groomed by an online predator and has sent pictures of herself to him. One of the first things you might do is call the police. You probably want to do other things. Maybe you glance at your gun safe. But you call the police

Hearing and learning from credible messengers from Philly and Camden at #ASCPhilly23.

Brilliant panel at #ASCPhilly23 in quite possibly the worst room in the hotel.

Should clinical ethicists advocate for compassionate release of seriously ill incarcerated patients?💭 NEW HC Forum essay by Whitney Cabey, Nic and Peter Simonsson, PhD. Read, bit.ly/3TPiCVo #bioethics #incarceratedpatients