Firearm homicide mortality is influenced by structural racism in US metropolitan areas

Houghton, August; Jackson‐Weaver, Olan; A. Toraih, Eman; Burley, Nicholas; Byrne, Terence; McGrew, Patrick; Duchesne, Juan; Tatum, Danielle; Taghavi, Sharven

doi:10.1097/ta.0000000000003167

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Firearm homicide mortality is influenced by structural racism in US metropolitan areas

Published in The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care • Apr 2, 2021

Authors:

August Houghton

Olan Jackson‐Weaver

Eman A. Toraih

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Metropolitan cities in the United States suffer from higher rates of gun violence. However, the specific structural factors associated with increased gun violence are poorly defined. We hypothesized that firearm homicide in metropolitan cities would be impacted by Black-White segregati...

Subject

Homicide

Demography

Metropolitan area

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