Citation

Blackman PH. Homicide Stud. 1997; 1(2): 169-189.

Affiliation

U.S. National Rifle Association

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1088767997001002005

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Public health professionals have called for the use of epidemiologic methods to study violence, particularly firearm-related homicide. This literature review uses epidemiology texts to evaluate the extent to which public health research has complied with epidemiologic methodology, focusing primarily on the two medical journals publishing most extensively on the topic. Most studies and reports surveyed failed in at least one way to observe basic standards of the science of epidemiology.