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When I worked with incarcerated women I witnessed their partners take advantage of these barriers: "go ahead and call the cops, why would they help you with your record?" We must build new systems of care so that everyone can access safety on their own terms.

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When @pizarro_jesenia comes to visit, we work!

With the rising cases of intimate partner femicide circulating in the news, the Femicide Watch Platform is a great resource to understand what femicide entails. Specifically, information on intimate partner femicide can be found in our Femicide 101 dossier. #CallitFemicide

Insightful piece by my friend and colleague @Alex_T_Young on how modern gun ownership intertwines with consumerism and empowerment myths. A must-read for anyone exploring the cultural dynamics of guns in America. Check it out for a fresh perspective on the gun debate!

Interested in best approaches for preventing Intimate Partner Homicide? Check out this blog written by our Editor-in-Chief @pizarro_jesenia

#NJGVRC in the news! Study: Exposure to firearm violence is cumulative affects the functional health of Black Americans buffalo.edu/news/releases/… @dsemenzcrim @RutgersU @Rutgers_Camden

Would anyone be able to share tips or papers about handling missingness in suppressed CDC suicide data in US counties due to low counts? Lots of counties aren't reported and looking for best practices - thank you!

This is a great opportunity for homicide researchers to engage with scholars from multiple disciplines who focus on preventing firearm injury, which is very closely aligned with the prevention of homicide.

Workshop and symposium abstracts for the 2024 National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms are due June 17. More details here: firearmresearchsociety.org/call-for-abstr…

Our survey will close Tuesday 4/30. If you work in injury and violence research and haven't had a chance to answer yet, please consider doing so!

We want to understand what supervisors do to promote the well-being of their research team members and how effective they perceive those strategies to be. If you supervise at least 1 person, it would be great to hear from you: bit.ly/VTRTS. The survey takes 5-10 min.

The Carolyn Rebecca Block Award Committee would like to Congratulate Gráinne Perkins, PhD, Chief of Southern Maine University's Police Department, as the recipient of this year's award!! Please read more about the Chief here: shorturl.at/tyKT5

Good News!! The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline for submissions for one more week. So don't forget!! HRWG meeting - June 6-9th in Clearwater Beach. Now due March 8th! hrwg1991.org/submit/

Check out the new research out in Homicide Studies.

We need to evolve if we do not want to be left behind! "The answer to the question in the title of this piece is arguably, "not a lot." If criminology is to survive as a discipline, then it needs to be more useful to police and others... psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stoppi…

“While the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision is forcing some states to weaken their concealed carry permitting systems, this study shows that states can reduce the expected increase in gun assault rates by including training requirements.” publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/study-fin…

One more week to submit those ideas for the HRWG meeting - June 6-9th in Clearwater Beach. Due March 1st! hrwg1991.org/submit/

Words cannot express our excitement for this special issue being edited by @DrTSharpe! We invite you to submit a proposal if you are working in this area!