The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions presents its latest study on 2020 Gun deaths in the US. The study reports “U.S. 2020 Gun-Related Deaths: Highest Number Ever Recorded by CDC, Gun Homicides Increase by More Than One-Third.”
The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions presents its latest study on 2020 Gun deaths in the US. The study reports “U.S. 2020 Gun-Related Deaths: Highest Number Ever Recorded by CDC, Gun Homicides Increase by More Than One-Third.” Read the…
Download the toolkit PDF here, and download graphics for social media use here. Social media guidelines are included in the toolkit. Over the past ten months, BWJP/NRCDVF has researched public attitudes toward firearm-involved intimate partner violence, as well as attitudinal impediments to…
Did you know that most mass shootings in the US happen inside private homes, and not in public spaces? This video, produced by the Battered Women’s Project, features Deputy Director of the NRCDVF Alicia Nichols. Listen to her run through some…
While intimate partner homicides are generally discussed as events in which there is a single homicide victim, they often involve multiple homicide victims and even the homicide offender’s suicide. These additional homicide victims are often the children of the targeted…
The entire country has been reflecting on the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, mourning the loss of the 17 lives taken by violence, including those of 14 teen-aged children. All of us at…
The negative consequences of domestic violence are not only felt by a batterer’s intimate partner; they are also felt by the children who see, hear, or are otherwise affected by the abuse of a parent or are themselves directly abused.…
A recent study offers further promise to reduce the incidence of intimate partner homicide (IPH) through firearms restrictions. The study, “Analysis of the Strength of Legal Firearms Restrictions for Perpetrators of Domestic Violence and Their Association with Intimate Partner Violence,”…
A woman’s intimate partner with a gun is statistically a much greater threat to her than is a total stranger. A recent report from the Violence Policy Center (VPC) analyzed national and state-by-state statistics from the FBI’s 2015 Uniform Crime…
Every year in the United States, more than 1800 people are killed by their intimate partners, and approximately 50% of these intimate partner homicides (IPH) are committed with firearms. While federal law prohibits those convicted of domestic violence of possessing a firearm, several…
