Modeling Contagion Through Social Networks to Explain and Predict Gunshot Violence in Chicago, 2006 to 2014

• Published in: JAMA internal medicine Vol. 177; no. 3; p. 326
• Main Authors: Green, Ben, Horel, Thibaut, Papachristos, Andrew V
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.03.2017
• Subjects: Adult; Female; Firearms; Group Processes; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Models, Statistical; Psychology - methods; Residence Characteristics - statistics & numerical data; Social Networking; United States - epidemiology; Violence - prevention & control; Violence - psychology; Violence - statistics & numerical data; Wounds, Gunshot - epidemiology; Wounds, Gunshot - psychology

Every day in the United States, more than 200 people are murdered or assaulted with a firearm. Little research has considered the role of interpersonal ties in the pathways through which gun violence spreads. To evaluate the extent to which the people who will become subjects of gun violence can be...