Harvard Injury Control Research Center
Our mission is to reduce the societal burden of injury and violence through surveillance, research, intervention, evaluation, outreach, dissemination, and training.
Residential Segregation
Various measures of residential segregation are strongly associated with fatal and non-fatal firearm assault in Massachusetts communities.
Krieger N, Feldman JM, Waterman PD, Chen JT, Coull BA, Hemenway D. Local residential segregation matters. Journal of Urban Health. 2017 Apr 1;94(2):244-58.
We examined 32 states over the period 1991-2013. States with higher level of residential segregation had higher differences in Black and White firearm homicide disparities, even after controlling for levels of Black and White deprivation.
Knopov A, Rothman E, Cronin SW, Franklin L, Cansever A, Potter F, Mesic A, Xuan Z, Siegel M, Hemenway D. The role of residential segregation in Back-White disparities in firearm homicide at the state level in the United States, 1991-2015. Journal of the National Medical Association. 2019; 111:62-75.