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Preventing Gun Violence by Changing Social Norms

Author(s) -

David Hemenway

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

jama internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.14

H-Index - 342

eISSN - 2168-6114

pISSN - 2168-6106

DOI - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.6949

Subject(s) - medicine , gun violence , medical emergency , suicide prevention , injury prevention , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , occupational safety and health , criminology , pathology , sociology

F ROM A PUBLIC HEALTH perspective, some social norms are beneficial (eg, washing your hands), while others are less so (eg, shaking hands, which may spread germs). Social norms can encourage or discourage violence. For example, traditional norms that men have a right to control women and that sexual violence is a private affair increase the likelihood of intimate partner violence. Social norms that encourage violence can be changed.

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