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ArticleFrontiers in public health2024

A social problem analysis of the 1993 Brady Act and the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

Devon Ziminski

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Devon ZiminskiSchool of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.

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Abstract

In June 2022, the U.S. federal government passed its first major firearm policy since the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA). Summative content analysis was used to explore how the social problem of firearm violence was outlined in both policies, with the goal of extracting the social issue's definition from the policies' approaches to solving it. Both policies do not outline the various types of firearm violence, nor the disproportionate effect of firearm violence on certain populations. This work informs the role of federal policy in defining and monitoring firearm violence as a public health issue, identifying both individual and structural risk and protective factors from an asset-based lens, and allocating preventative efforts in communities that are most affected.

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FirearmsPolicyPublic HealthViolencecontent analysisfederal policy makingfirearm injury preventiongun violenceissue definitionsocial problem analysissocial problem awareness

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PMID38601502
PMCPMC11004240

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