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Paul Boxer is an expert on the development and management of aggressive behavior and director of the External Center on Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice at Rutgers University-Newark. Stephanie Bonne is assistant professor of surgery at New Jersey Medical School and director of the Hospital Violence Intervention Program at University Hospital in Newark, where she is a trauma surgeon and regularly treats gun-shot victims.

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Keywords: Santa Clarita, gun violence epidemic, School Shooting Prevention, School Shootings

A new training resource aimed at enhancing child-centred responses to violence against children, co-designed with children and young people, has been launched today (Monday 11 November) by academics from the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast and Include Youth.

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Keywords: Queen's University Belfast, Violence, Social Sciences, Training, Resources, Violence Against Children

After years of progress, the average life expectancy in the U.S. has been on the decline for three consecutive years. The second annual Bloomberg American Health Summit—taking place November 12 and 13, 2019, in Baltimore, Maryland—will bring together national leaders, policymakers, advocates, and innovators from across the country to share new knowledge and evidence-based practices around five focus areas implicated in reducing U.S. life expectancy: addiction and overdose, adolescent health, environmental challenges, obesity and the food system, and violence.

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Keywords: U.S. life expectancy addiction and overdose adolescent health environmental challenges obesity and the food system violence , U.S. life expectancy , Addiction and overdose, Adolescent Health, Environmental Challenges, Obesity and the Food System, Violence

Violence continues to rage in Mexico more than a decade after former President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown on drug cartels.

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Keywords: Mexico, Drugs, Drug Policy, Border Security, United States, transnational criminal groups, Transnational Law, Transnational Crime, Port Security, Heroin, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, DEA, Corruption, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Human Rights, Drug Smuggling, CBP, Customs And Border Protection, Violence

Douglass Residential College at Rutgers University–New Brunswick will host a social justice teach-in by The Mothers of the Movement at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14. in Voorhees Chapel.

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Keywords: Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter Movement, Social Justice, Racial justice

A year before the 2020 presidential election, Americans report various issues in the news as significant sources of stress, including health care, mass shootings and the upcoming election, according to this year’s Stress in America™ survey by the American Psychological Association (APA). More than half of U.S. adults (56%) identify the 2020 presidential election as a significant stressor, an increase from the 52% of adults who reported the presidential election as a significant source of stress when asked in the months leading up to the 2016 contest.

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Keywords: Stress, Stress and Anxiety, Healthcare, mass shooting, Election, Politics, politics and anxiety, Psychology, psychology & social behavior

UAB’s Tara Warner explores why some individuals are more likely to own guns than others.

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Keywords: Criminal Justice, Gun Ownership, Gun Control, Gender Differences, fear, Anxiety, guns and women, guns and economic stress, guns

The second annual Bloomberg American Health Summit—taking place November 12 and 13, 2019, in Baltimore, Maryland—will bring together national leaders, policymakers, advocates, and innovators from across the country to share new knowledge and evidence-based practices around five focus areas implicated in reducing U.S. life expectancy.

Channels: Addiction, Education, Environmental Health, Food Science, Obesity, Public Health, Guns and Violence, All Journal News,

Keywords: Bloomberg American Health Summit, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Of Public Health, Bloomberg Fellows, Addiction and overdose, Adolescent Health, Environmental Challenges, Violence

Policy responses to school shootings have not prevented them from happening more frequently, but restorative justice has the potential to avert bad behavior and school shootings, finds a new study from Washington University in St. Louis.The study, “Disparate Impacts: Balancing the Need for Safe Schools With Racial Equity in Discipline,” published in the journal Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, finds that crisis prevention policies enacted following school shootings tend to exacerbate racial and ethnic discipline disparities in several different ways.

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Keywords: restorative justice, Schools, Discipline, Racial Equity, School Shooting