Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Firearm-Related Pediatric Deaths Related to Legal Intervention

Badolato, Gia M.; Boyle, Meleah D.; McCarter, Robert; Zeoli, April M.; Terrill, William; Goyal, Monika K.

doi:10.1542/peds.2020-015917

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“…These findings are consistent with other work documenting greater and increasing risks of firearm injury death among Black children and adolescents who experience a broader set of household and community gun violence risks. 2,29,30 While this study does not examine underlying causes, evidence has shown that socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods, a result of persistent structural and systemic racism, are associated with larger Black-white disparities in firearm injuries and fatalities. 21 Many root causes of gun violence including income inequality, poverty, and funding of public housing were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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confidence: 93%

Trends in Pediatric Firearm-Related Encounters during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Age Group, Race/Ethnicity, and Schooling Mode in Tennessee

McKay

Gastineau

Wrenn

et al. 2023

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Purpose Increases in pediatric firearm-related injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic may be due to changes in where children and adolescents spent their time. This paper examines changes in the frequency of pediatric firearm-related encounters as a function of schooling mode overall and by race/ethnicity and age group at a large trauma center through 2021. Methods We use data from a large pediatric and adult trauma center in Tennessee from January 2018 to December 2021 (N=211 encounters) and geographically linked schooling mode data. We use Poisson regressions to estimate smoothed monthly pediatric firearm-related encounters as a function of schooling mode overall and stratified by race and age. Results Compared to pre-pandemic, we find a 42% increase in pediatric encounters per month during March 2020 to August 2020, when schools were closed, and a 23% increase in encounters after schools returned to in-person instruction. Effects of schooling mode are heterogeneous by race. Encounters increased among non-Hispanic Black children and adolescents across all periods relative to pre-pandemic. Among non-Hispanic white children and adolescents, encounters increased during the closure period and decreased on return to in-person instruction. Effects of schooling mode are also heterogeneous by age. Relative to pre-pandemic, pediatric firearm-related encounters increased 205% for children aged 5 to 11 and 69% for adolescents aged 12 to 15 during the school closure period. Conclusion COVID-19-related changes to school instruction mode in 2020 and 2021 are associated with changes in the frequency and composition of pediatric firearm-related encounters at a major trauma center in Tennessee.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Trends in Pediatric Firearm-Related Encounters during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Age Group, Race/Ethnicity, and Schooling Mode in Tennessee

McKay

Gastineau

Wrenn

et al. 2023

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“…The number of police murders has led to the civilian development of 10 survival tips for children of Color (Atlanta City Review Board, n.d.). Black children are six times more likely and Latinx children are three times more likely to be killed by police than White children overall (Badolato et al, 2020). About one in 1000 Black boys will be killed by police, while American Indian/Alaska Native boys are about 1.5 times more likely, and Asian/Pacific Islander boys are only slightly less likely to be killed by police than White boys.…”

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confidence: 98%

Cultural and Contextual Factors of Infancy Through Early Childhood

2022

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“…(2022) show, Black youth and especially boys experience the most direct and vicarious police stops (knowing someone or witnessing someone else being stopped by police) than any other racial/ethnic group. This finding is powerful, but not surprising, as exemplified by the number of repeated, high‐profile police killings of Black youth and adults—Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, to only name a few—across the nation in the past years, and astonishingly, Black children are six times more likely to be shot and killed by police (Badolato et al., 2020). Yet, racism in policing manifests in many nonfatal forms that affect the daily lives of Black youth, such as direct and vicarious police stops, as Del Toro et al.…”

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confidence: 99%

Black Lives Matter! Adolescent Research Incrementally Dismantles Racism and Systems of Oppression

Witherspoon

Wray‐Lake

Halgunseth³

2022

J of Research on Adolesc

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This Black Lives Matter! Special Issue uses diverse methods to examine how multiple systems of oppression at different levels (individual, institutional, and structural) affect Black youth. Through an intersectionality lens, scholars examine how gender, sexual orientation, skin tone, and socioeconomic status create unique experiences for Black youth. Collectively, the 17 papers address the sweeping impact of racism and other systems of oppression on Black youth by examining structural factors (e.g., policing), interpersonal experiences (e.g., teacher–student), and developmental processes (e.g., socialization). Commentaries provide a historical view and future perspective to contextualize how far we have come and how much farther we need to go in our quest to combat racism and other systems of oppression and improve the lives of Black adolescents.

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Firearm-Related Pediatric Deaths Related to Legal Intervention

Cited by 28 publications

References 7 publications

Trends in Pediatric Firearm-Related Encounters during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Age Group, Race/Ethnicity, and Schooling Mode in Tennessee

Trends in Pediatric Firearm-Related Encounters during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Age Group, Race/Ethnicity, and Schooling Mode in Tennessee

Cultural and Contextual Factors of Infancy Through Early Childhood

Black Lives Matter! Adolescent Research Incrementally Dismantles Racism and Systems of Oppression

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