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Gun ownership is not the only factor that needs considering to tackle gun crime, an expert says.
A suspect apparently motivated by a white supremacist agenda shot dead 10 shoppers. Analysis shows that mass shootings – and those at grocery stores – are on the rise.
A scholar of untraceable firearms explains what they are and why President Joe Biden’s administration is seeking to restrict their manufacture and use.
Stricter gun control laws may make mass shootings slightly less common, but other policies may work better to prevent mass shooting deaths.
A scholar of gender and religion who grew up Southern Baptist explains how literal teachings on the Bible inform members’ views on women.
Amid the angst over a surge in gun sales in both the United States and Canada during the pandemic, few have noted the three key differences between the two countries.
Not all mass shooters are white supremacists, but they are nearly all men.
Manufacturing errors, undetected by inexpert consumers, may be more dangerous than other threats from 3D-printed guns.
Did the government-funded gun buybacks introduced after the Port Arthur massacre have “no effect” in reducing gun deaths in Australia, as an audience member claimed on Q&A? Let’s look at the evidence.
Let’s be realistic about what gun amnesties are, and are not, likely to deliver.
Police and the courts have locked up some of Europe’s most notorious mob bosses – but the next generation of would-be kingpins are even worse.
The system of apartheid is long gone. But its legacy of poor funding for historically black universities - and of planning that banished black universities to cities’ margins - remains.
It could even help crack long-forgotten cold cases.
The candidate endorsed by the NRA this year wasn’t always so pro-gun. A sociologist and physician explains how Trump’s position on guns could play out if he were to win in November.
What does it mean to view firearm violence as a public health problem?
Do guns change the ways that people engage with each other? A gun violence researcher went to Missouri to find out.
South Africa’s homicide rates have declined consistently since democracy, but remain among the highest in the world. They are about four times the global average at more than 30 per 100,000 people.
We should not downplay the significant contribution to early mortality posed by previously law-abiding gun owners who, in the heat of the moment, decide to kill.
President Barack Obama has praised gun laws in Australia and the UK. How did they work?
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Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Hamline University
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Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice and Creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, University of Central Florida
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Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society; Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
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Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, Social Science & Planning, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
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C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research; Adjunct Professor, School of Social Science, UNSW
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Professor of Criminology, Deakin University