Jessica Beard, associate professor of surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, studies how news coverage of firearm violence shapes public understanding and harm survivors and communities.Photo by Ryan S. Brandenberg Mar. 4, 2026 Changing the narrative: Researchers call for a new approach to reporting gun violence A Temple-led study finds that how television news reports violence can shape trauma, fear and […] A new paper by doctoral candidate Nicole Johnson and Professor Caterina Roman, both in the College of Liberal Arts’ Criminal Justice Department, seeks to offer some of the missing context behind Philadelphia’s gun violence crisis. 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.Photo by Graphic created by Robert Frawley Feb. 25, 2022 Connecting the dots between gun violence and drug markets If you turn on the television, open a newspaper or visit a news site, it is hard to avoid the […]
Jessica Beard, associate professor of surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, studies how news coverage of firearm violence shapes public understanding and harm survivors and communities.Photo by Ryan S. Brandenberg Mar. 4, 2026 Changing the narrative: Researchers call for a new approach to reporting gun violence A Temple-led study finds that how television news reports violence can shape trauma, fear and […] A new paper by doctoral candidate Nicole Johnson and Professor Caterina Roman, both in the College of Liberal Arts’ Criminal Justice Department, seeks to offer some of the missing context behind Philadelphia’s gun violence crisis. 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.Photo by Graphic created by Robert Frawley Feb. 25, 2022 Connecting the dots between gun violence and drug markets If you turn on the television, open a newspaper or visit a news site, it is hard to avoid the […]
