08/10/20-Education Research Report “Our findings suggest that increasing SRO staffing in schools does not improve school safety and that increasing exclusionary responses to school discipline incidents increases the criminalization of school discipline,” Gottfredson et al., CJRA study.
08/10/20-Wall Street Journal “Other factors could be behind the increased shootings. Residents were staying closer to home because of social distancing and thus could be more predictable targets,” David Kennedy, CJRA Expert.
08/06/20-TIME “If we go down this path to re-examine what policing looks like, we need to make sure we know what really works. We need to look at what our potential outcomes will be,” Joseph Schafer, CJRA Expert.
08/03/20-Atlanta Journal Constitution “It does seem a little suspect (if) they don’t have the basic material they feel they need to do their jobs,” Danielle Rudes, CJRA Expert.
Read the July 2020 newsletter here.
Concern over the safety of students, teachers, and administrators in U.S. schools continues to grow, in part as a result of school shootings. In response, partnerships between schools and law enforcement agencies have increasingly placed school resource officers (SROs) in schools to boost security. Amid controversy over this practice, a new longitudinal study sought to […]
07/26/20-Business Insider “Looser concealed-carry laws had little impact on mass shootings and increased a state’s gun homicide rate by 11%,” Emma Fridel, CJRA Expert.
07/24/20-The Crime Report “The results of the current study, for example, indicate that reducing gun ownership…benefits mass shooting prevention efforts, while reinstating more restrictive concealed carry legislation decreases the overall firearms homicide rate,” Emma Fridel, CJRA Expert.
07/23/20-Colorado Politics “More permissive concealed carry legislation was associated with a 10.8% increase in the firearms homicide incidence rate, yet had no significant effect on mass shooting,” Emma Fridel, CJRA Expert.
Over the past 30 years, mass shootings have fueled calls for changes in gun ownership and concealed carry legislation, but few studies have evaluated whether permissive gun policies deter mass shootings, and none have determined if their effects are the same on firearms homicides. A new study examined the impact of household gun ownership and […]