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

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ID22068232
AuthorsDevon Ziminski (0000-0003-1187-585X, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume12
Pages1338722-1338722
Publication date2024-03-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontiers in Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2296-2565 • E-ISSN: 2296-2565
PublisherFrontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fpubh.2024.1338722
PMID38601502
OpenAlexW4393231346
LanguageEN
References cited30

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

Computer security · Criminology · Formative assessment · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Public health · Public policy · Public relations · SAFER · Summative assessment · Computer Science · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Public Administration · Public Health Policies and Education · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

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