How birth year predicts exposure to gun violence
Long-term study examines risk of getting shot or witnessing a shooting by race, sex, and birth year.
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Long-term study examines risk of getting shot or witnessing a shooting by race, sex, and birth year.
Exposure to gun violence is one of the great traumas of American life, but its harms are not equally distributed. In a first-of-its-kind study published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open, a Harvard sociology professor and his colleagues set out to examine exposure to shootings by race, sex, and birth year in a long-term study that followed respondents from childhood up to age 40. “The idea here is to take a life-course perspective,” said Robert J. Sampson, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor. “When is exposure to gun violence happening? How does that change over the life ...