October 2022

October 2022

GOOD AFTERNOON,

Domestic violence is a public health problem in the United States affecting an estimated 10 million people each year. Every October, organizations working on violence prevention observe Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) to raise awareness about this public health crisis and connect with others who are working on domestic violence prevention solutions.

We know that an estimated 60 women are shot and killed each month by an intimate partner. While research has shed light on the prevalence of domestic violence, accurate and timely data is still challenging to obtain. Particularly, there is a lack of data on marginalized populations who often face multiple barriers to reporting abuse and accessing help.

In addition to better, timely, and culturally sensitive data collection, there is an urgent need to implement evidence-based solutions that can prevent domestic violence, including Domestic Violence Protective Orders (DVPO) and completely closing the dating partner loophole. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act provides critical protections to victims and survivors of domestic violence, but it only partially closes the dating partner loophole by failing to remove firearms in domestic violence restraining orders where the abuser is a dating partner.

Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) can also be a useful tool in some cases, although they do not include many of the critical domestic violence protections that exist in DVPOs. The Consortium played a significant role in the development and adoption of ERPO laws. In 2013, the Consortium recommended that states enact a risk-based firearm removal policy, now widely known as ERPOs or red flag laws. Today, we continue to raise awareness about the importance of implementing laws to address domestic violence and other forms of gun violence.

NEW RESOURCES

97Percent report, Finding the Common Ground in Gun Safety

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

Reducing Domestic Violence with Gun Violence Prevention Policies – Op-ed from the Rockefeller Institute of Government featuring Lisa Geller.
The Cost of Surviving Gun Violence: Who Pays? – AAMC News
The Impact of Gun Violence on Children and Adolescents – KFF
Guns Recovered by Mexico’s Military Come Mostly From U.S. Makers – The Trace
The Truth About Our Loose Concealed Carry Laws – Op-ed from New York Daily News featuring Mitchell Doucette and Daniel Webster
Another Challenge to New York Gun’s Law: Sheriffs Who Won’t Enforce It – New York Times
Gun Industry Faces A New Wave of Lawsuits that Could Reshape How Firearms are Sold – CNBC

Upcoming Events

November 1: The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions webinar, The Deadly Intersection of White Supremacy & Firearms.
November 1-3: Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI) virtual conference: Going Further, Together: Building the CVI Ecosystem.
November 29 – December 1: National Research Conference on Firearm Injury Prevention, organized by RAND Corporation, University of Michigan, and Columbia University.
April 17-19, 2023: The annual SAVIR conference in Denver, CO.

Selected Research Articles

Ellyson AM, Martin KD, Bowen D, Gallagher A, & Rivara FP. (2022). Implicit racial and gender bias about handguns: A new implicit association test. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221123300

Gaylord-Harden, N., Alli, J., Davis-Stober, C. P., & Henderson, H. (2022). A trauma-informed approach to understanding firearm decision-making among black adolescents: Implications for prevention. Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107305

Hemenway D, & Zhang W. (2022). Patterns of household gun ownership and firearm suicide among black men compared to white men. Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107261

Horwitz J, & Cantrell S. (2022). Seizing a critical opportunity to reduce gun violence: The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Health Affairs Forefront. https://doi.org/10.1377/forefront.20221006.561671

Patton DU, Aguilar N, Landau AY, Thomas C, Kagan R, Ren T, Stoneberg E, Wang T, Halmos D, Saha A, Ananthram A, & McKeown K. (2022). Community implications for gun violence prevention during co-occurring pandemics; a qualitative and computational analysis study. Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107263

Rudolph KE, & Keyes K. (2022). Voluntary firearm divestment and suicide risk: Real-world importance in the absence of causal identification. Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001548

Swanson JW, Tong G, Easter MM, Sivaraman JC, Gifford EJ, Gardner BO, Donnelly EA, Evans KE, Copeland WE, Swartz MS, & Bonnie RJ. (2022). Gun violence among young adults with a juvenile crime record in North Carolina: Implications for firearm restrictions based on age and risk. Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107279

Zeoli AM, Frattaroli S, Barnard L, Bowen A, Christy A, Easter M, Kapoor R, Knoepke C, Ma W, Molocznik A, Norko M, Omaki E, Paruk JK, Pear VA, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Schleimer JP, Swanson JW, & Wintemute GJ. (2022). Extreme risk protection orders in response to threats of multiple victim/mass shooting in six U.S. states: A descriptive study. Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107304

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For more information, contact Silvia Villarreal at svillarreal@jhu.edu

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