Violence prevention study wins top journal award

Garen Wintemute, director of the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP), is the recipient of the Jess Kraus Award for a major research paper he authored on political violence.

The paper, “Views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA: findings from a nationally representative survey, ” was published in Injury Epidemiology in September 2023.

Another paper from VPRP, “Association of medical conditions and firearm suicide among legal handgun purchasers in California: a case-control study,” came in second place for the award. Julia Schleimer, an analyst at VPRP and doctoral student at the University of Washington, is the first author of that paper.