Geographic Analysis of Domestic Violence Incident Locations and Neighborhood Level Influences

Illegal Firearm Availability and Violence: Neighborhood-Level Analysis.

Violence involving firearms poses a serious threat to public safety in urban areas. The present study examines how illegal firearm availability (IFA) is related to firearm violence at the neighborhood level. We analyzed 3 years (from 2005 to 2007) of recovered firearm and violent index crime data from Newark, New Jersey. Violent index crime is separated into three categories by level of firearm...

Living in violence: Neighborhood domestic violence and small for gestational age births.

OBJECTIVES To determine the association between neighborhood domestic violence and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) birth and to examine if there is a differential impact of neighborhood domestic violence on SGA births by race in a high crime community. METHODS This analysis includes all birth records issued in New Orleans, Louisiana from 2011 to 2012 geocoded by census tract (N=177 census tra...

Domestic Violence and the COVID-19 Crisis

This letter intends to discuss how CoVID-19 pandemic and its related preventive measures such as maintaining social distance and reducing social and intimate relationships can affect the formation of domestic violence. It also points to the need for families to provide psychological support in dealing with this epidemic.

Domestic violence and children: analysis and recommendations.

Domestic Violence and Children: Analysis and Recommendations

Today, domestic violence1 is recognized as a serious societal problem in the United States. Yet, children in families in which such violence occurs have remained largely invisible as victims.2 Concern about children’s exposure to domestic violence3 is increasing, however, in light of a growing body of knowledge regarding the prevalence and effects of childhood exposure to domestic violence. Res...