https://news.temple.edu/news/2022-12-06/understanding-america-relationship-firearms
Almost every day this year, a new American community has grieved in the wake of a loaded gun. Yet this reality is one that is unique to the United States, at least among developed countries. The U.S. has more gun-related deaths than any other developed country in the world.
https://law.temple.edu/aer/2020/09/05/bullet-points/
Examining firearms to link a fired projectile or cartridge casing to a specific weapon has been a practice for more than a century. Hamby and Thorpe, The History of Firearm and Toolmark Identification, http://www.firearmsid.com/A_historyoffirearmsID.htm (last visited November 29, 2019).
https://ambler.temple.edu/academics/law-enforcement-training-center
NLTA is part of the trainees’ firearms training using Airsoft guns — models of actual on-duty firearms that are filled with compressed air. Confined Space Training Simulator.
https://sites.temple.edu/ticlj/files/2017/02/30.1.Meier-TICLJ.pdf
Humanity by Human Rights Watch, lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) have become an issue of national and international attention. With almost daily articles and commentary, including letters by notable scientists, debating the advantages and disadvantages of developing and fielding these systems, the public has become generally more aware of the issues related to autonomy, but it has ...
https://liberalarts.temple.edu/research/labs-centers-and-institutes/criminal-justice-training-program/training-programs
Temple University is pleased to announce the availability of the 2018 distance-learning courses offered by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency and the Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff Education and Training Board. There is no tuition cost for the training.
https://news.temple.edu/news/2022-12-07/how-to-solve-American-gun-epidemic
Experts from Temple University are tackling the issue of gun violence from a variety of angles. They explain what can be done to permanently address America’s gun violence epidemic. Laurence Steinberg squints up at the glossy, backlit rows of the latest MRI scans from his research study.
https://safety.temple.edu/crime-reports/clery-compliance/clery-act-crime-definitions
Weapon Law Violations are defined as the violation of laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession, concealment, or use of firearms, cutting instruments, explosives, incendiary devices or other deadly weapons.
https://law.temple.edu/aer/publication/junk-science/
If it was, how would so many techniques, such as firearms analysis, be allowed into court as “scientific” evidence without valid error rates? I litigated a case in March in which an expert confidently testified, in 2022, that his error rate was “zero.”
https://news.temple.edu/2021-10-20/temple-s-scott-charles-gun-violence-prevention
Addressing victim trauma may be a key to ending gun violence. That’s according to Scott Charles, trauma outreach manager at Temple University Hospital, who oversees the hospital’s violence prevention and intervention initiatives.
https://news.temple.edu/news/2022-02-25/connecting-dots-between-gun-violence-and-drug-markets
The study shows that from March 2020 through June 2021, gun violence went up on average by 21.6% each two-month period, albeit slowing down considerably in 2021. The areas that saw increasingly more gun violence had something in common: they had high drug market activity.