While the emergence of big data raises concerns regarding governance and public policy, it
also creates opportunities for diversifying the toolkit for analysis for the policy sciences as a …

Purpose The goal of this study is to examine how tweets containing distinct emotions (ie,
emotional tweets) and different information types (ie, misinformation, corrective information …

Instances of violence in the United States involving the indiscriminate slaughter of multiple
victims, usually perpetrated by a lone individual with a firearm and often in a public place …

This study examined attitudes toward campus carry–a policy that would permit individuals to
carry concealed firearms on a university's grounds if they possess a permit. Survey data …

Purpose Existing studies indicate that acute life stressors often precede mass shootings and
may contribute to the shooter's motivation or exacerbate underlying mental health issues …

Discovering causal mechanisms underlying firearm acquisition can provide critical insight
into firearm-related violence in the United States. Here, we established an information …

Objectives This study examines how characteristics of victims and types of incidents
described in a media account of gun violence affect public support for three categories of …

Twitter analysis through data mining, text analysis, and visualization, coupled with the
application of actor-network-theory, reveals a coalition of heterogenous religious affiliations …

This study develops mathematical tools and approaches to investigate spatiotemporal
patterns of firearm acquisition in the US complemented by hypothesis testing and statistical …

The issue of school safety has been interrogated as school shootings have occurred
multiple times each year in the United States. This devastating reality has captured the …