Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review

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Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review (2004)
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. "8 Firearm Injury Prevention Programs." Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2004.

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Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review

Program	Developer, Sponsor and/or Publisher	Type of Program Age or	Target Grade
Hands Without Guns	Office of Programs, Education Fund to End Handgun Violence, Joshua Horwitz. Based in Washington, DC, but implemented in several U.S. cities	Peer-based education and outreach	Middle school and high school Justice students
Child DevelopmentCommunity Policing (CD-CP) Program	A collaborative effort by the New Haven, CT, Department of Police Services and the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine	Interrelated training and consultation focusing on sharing knowledge and developing ongoing collegial relationships between police and mental health workers.	Police officers and mental health professions

(locked, loaded, etc.), whereas the distal behavior goal might be to reduce the rare acts of gun violence involving children. If the program is designed to educate young children about firearms, then a proximal behavior goal would be avoidance of a nearby gun, and a distal behavior goal would be the reduction of child gun accidents.