Fact Sheets/Briefs

These findings are clear. Entrapment in a spiral of escalating political violence is not inevitable in the United States. Those who promote political violence should recognize that they do not have the public’s support and that promoting violence may exact a political cost.”

- Garen Wintemute, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the UC Davis Centers for Violence Prevention

Since 2022, researchers at the Centers for Violence Prevention at UC Davis have surveyed Americans on how they feel about political violence, including whether it is ever justified and, if so, whether they would personally get involved in it. This fact sheet provides updated key findings of the research and citations to peer-reviewed publications.

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Visual abstracts are available for the following papers:

Aubel AJ, Bruns A, Zhang X, Buggs S, Kravitz-Wirtz N. Neighborhood collective efficacy and environmental exposure to firearm homicide among a national sample of adolescents. Injury Epidemiology. 2023 Jun 9;10(1):24.

The Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency collaborated with the UC Davis Center for Regional Change and Rose Kagawa, PhD, MPH, from our team for evaluation of the Yolo County Basic Income (YOBI) pilot project. Learn more about the YOBI pilot project.

Amy Barnhorst, MD, co-authored a report led by The Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy and the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on policy recommendations to address alcohol misuse and gun violence.

Key policy recommendations were as follows:

In an article published by Arnold Ventures, Shani Buggs, PhD, MPH, argues for increased recognition and support of community-based violence intervention (CVI) as an integral element of public safety strategies to reduce community violence. 

Shani Buggs, PhD, MPH, served as an expert for a report by the Joyce Foundation to address gun violence and its disparities in the United States.

The Joyce Foundation lists the following recommendations, summarized in brief, as follows:

Shani Buggs, PhD, MPH, co-wrote a report, alongside members of the John Jay College Research Advisory Group on Preventing and Reducing Community Violence, summarizing research on policies and programs known to reduce community violence without relying on police. This report was requested by and submitted to Arnold Ventures.

Seven key strategies identified by the group were: