Funded Research

Black Americans and Firearms: A National Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Attitudes...

Objective:Recent conversations and debates about gun violence prevention policy are at the forefront of the national political discourse. An overwhelming majority of the narratives...

Interstate Gun Flow in the Connected States of America

Objective:This proposal examines the sources of guns used in crimes and considers the way they are transported around the US to affect gun violence...

Empowering Community-Based Organizations to Become Co-producers of Public Safety:Developing a Gun...

Objective:The proposed study seeks to develop a community-based participatory-action research effort to prevent and reduce gun violence in the City of Newark. Incidents of...

The Impact of Proximity to Health Care on the Lethality of...

Objective:While fatal firearm related violence is an ongoing concern, nonfatal firearm related violence is just as, if not more concerning. Research has found that...

SAVE VOICE: Safety against Violence for Employees through Violence Outreach Intervention...

Objective:Gun violence is a major public health concern in the U.S. and its related health issues have increased in the COVID-19 era. Since 2019,...

“Ghost gun stores” and the concentration of shootings: An investigation of the...

Objective:Recent political attention to gun violence in the United States has stimulated commonsensical policy adoption, yet these policies have been developed largely in the...

Empowering community organizations to become co-producers of public safety: Developing a...

Objective:This study seeks to develop a Data-Informed Community Engagement (DICE) strategy to mitigate the risk of gun violence in the city of Newark. Gun...

Establishing the Northern New Jersey Correctional Officer Mental Health, Suicide and...

Objective:Workplace hazards such as exposure to violence and infectious diseases and experiencing assaults are major concerns of correctional officers (COs). Between 1999 to...

Geological Mediators and Moderators in Norm-Change Models of Violence Prevention: Comparative...

Objective:Evaluations of community-based violence intervention and prevention (CVIPI) programs almost exclusively examine violence as an outcome of the correlational relationship between an intervention (independent...

A Spatial Examination of Gun Violence in New Jersey

Objective:While gun violence in New Jersey is relatively lower than most states in the country, an average of 254 people die from gun homicides with...