Saturday, December 15, 2012
PHLR has a number of resources on the topics of gun violence, mental illness and the law:
- Scott Burris's blog post on the Harvard Petrie-Flom Center Bill of Health blog: "Gun Violence: Lessons Learned from Car Crashes"
- A Q-and-A with Jeffrey Swanson, PhD, with NewPublicHealth.org, "Preventing Gun Violence: How Laws Can Help," the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's public health blog
- "Silencing the Science on Gun Research" -- Paper by PHLR grantee Frederick Rivara, MD, MPH and Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH. Published in The Journal of the American Medical Association,December 21, 2012.
- Evidence Brief: Directed Patrols by Police to Uncover Illegal Gun Possession
- Evidence Brief: Waiting Period Laws for Gun Permits
- Evidence Brief: "Shall Issue" Concealed Weapons Laws
- Evidence Brief: Gun Registration and Licensing Requirements
- Evidence Brief: Bans on Specific Guns and Ammunition
- Public Health Law Webinar Series: "Gun Violence, Mental Illness and Firearms Laws: Research Evidence and Questions for Science, Policy and Practice" featuring Jeffrey Swanson, PhD; Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law, Columbia University; Michael Luo, Investigative Reporter, The New York Times; Joshua Horwitz, J.D., Executive Director, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
- "Mental Illness, Law, and a Public Health Agenda" -- A paper written by Jeffrey Swanson, PhD, and John Petrila, JD, LLM, that reviews the current evidence base on the relationship between law and mental health and offers a research agenda that situates mental health within an explicit public health framework.
- "Police Interventions with Persons with Mental Illness" -- This monograph highlights the role police officers play in a community
- “Mental Illness and New Gun Law Reforms: The Promise and Peril of Crisis-Driven Policy” – Jeffrey Swanson’s February 2013 “Viewpoint” in JAMA
- Reducing Gun Violence in America – Jeffrey Swanson and others contribute a chapter, published February 4, 2013 following the Johns Hopkins University Gun Policy Summit in January