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Political Violence: Understanding Trends and Determinants to Inform Prevention

Edited by:

April Zeoli, PhD, MPH, University of Michigan, United States of America
Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States of America
Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, PhD, MPH, University of California, Davis,
 United States of America
 

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 31 May 2025


Injury Epidemiology is calling for submissions to our Collection on Political Violence: Understanding Trends and Determinants to Inform Prevention.



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New Content ItemThis collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Well-Being and SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

Meet the Guest Editors

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April Zeoli, PhD, MPH, University of Michigan, United States of America

April Zeoli is Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy and Policy Core Director with the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention at the University of Michigan. Much of her research has focused on the implementation and impacts of laws allowing or mandating firearm removal when protective orders for domestic violence and extreme risk are issued. Dr. Zeoli is also interested in extreme risk protection orders (or "red flag laws") impact on firearm violence, including suicide. The goals of her research are to provide evidence on whether and how firearm safety policies reduce firearm violence and to improve the implementation of these laws through science.

Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States of America

Daniel Webster is Professor of American Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he is Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Dr. Webster has published widely on the impacts of gun policies on homicides, suicides, and gun trafficking and led studies of community violence intervention programs and intimate partner violence. He is the lead editor and contributor to Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) and a member of both the National Academy of Medicine and the Council on Criminal Justice’s Working Group on Violent Crime.

Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, PhD, MPH, University of California, Davis, United States of America

Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz is Assistant Professor in Residence at the University of California, Davis and faculty member with UC Davis’s Violence Prevention Research Program. Dr. Kravitz-Wirtz's research focuses on the social and policy determinants, consequences, and prevention of community violence and related health outcomes over the life course and across generations. She is particularly focused on structurally-rooted chronic stressors in neighborhood context and their impacts on violence. Her applied work incorporates efforts to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of hospital-based violence intervention programs.

About the Collection

Political violence - violence intended to advance political goals - and public support for political violence is increasing in the United States and in many other countries. This has profound implications for public safety and mental health as well as democracy. 

Injury Epidemiology publishes peer-reviewed studies which generate objective and practical knowledge to inform interventions to reduce morbidity and mortality from injuries, including ones from violence. We welcome submissions from any academic discipline relevant to understanding political violence. We are seeking theory-driven studies with empirical data on injurious acts of political violence, threats of political violence, or attitudes that support or oppose political violence. 

Manuscripts will be reviewed in a timely manner and published online soon after acceptance. We offer authors an opportunity to submit an abstract prior to full manuscript submission to provide rapid feedback about the fit of the study for this Collection.

  1. U.S. firearm sales surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, with many purchases by first-time firearm owners. The 2023 National Survey of Gun Policy sought to understand the public health implications of this surg...

    Authors: Rebecca Valek, Julie A. Ward, Vanya Jones and Cassandra K. Crifasi
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2024 11:48
  2. Surveys have found concerningly high levels of agreement that the United States will experience civil war soon. This study assesses variation in expectation of and perceived need for civil war with respondent ...

    Authors: Garen J. Wintemute, Yueju Li, Bradley Velasquez, Andrew Crawford, Paul M. Reeping and Elizabeth A. Tomsich
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2024 11:40
  3. A 2022 survey in the USA found concerningly high prevalences of support for and personal willingness to engage in political violence, of beliefs associated with such violence, and of belief that civil war was ...

    Authors: Garen J. Wintemute, Sonia L. Robinson, Andrew Crawford, Elizabeth A. Tomsich, Paul M. Reeping, Aaron B. Shev, Bradley Velasquez and Daniel Tancredi
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2024 11:20

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original research articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. 

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Political Violence: Understanding Trends and Determinants to Inform Prevention" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editor have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.