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New research has uncovered a surprising bias in the risk assessment instruments (or RAIs) widely used in criminal justice settings. It turns out, their ...
Long-term study examines risk of getting shot or witnessing a shooting by race, sex, and birth year.
A new report on gun violence in Chicago, suggests that over half of the city’s minority population and a quarter of its white population witnessed a shooting by age 40.
(NEW YORK) — As the total of mass shootings in the United States this year climb, a new report focuses on gun violence in Chicago, suggesting that over half of the city’s Black and Hispanic population and a quarter of its white population have seen […]
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 ...