CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING: PREVENTING GUN VIOLENCE

Tuesday, February 25, 2025  10:00am – 12:00pm
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room SD-106, U.S. Capitol, Washington DC
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Gun violence, from community violence to mass shootings, remains a serious public safety challenge in the United States. In response, the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University and the Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation collaboratively present a Congressional Briefing to report on the most up-to-date research on preventing gun violence, featuring several of the nation's leading scientific experts on the topic.  

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AGENDA

Welcome and Introduction:

CYNTHIA LUM (Director, Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, George Mason University)
DANIEL F. WILHELM (President, Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation)
CHRISTOPHER S. KOPER (Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, George Mason University)

Presentations:

• ALEX PIQUERO (University of Miami)
  Gun violence trends and national measurement systems
• ANTHONY BRAGA (University of Pennsylvania)
  Focused deterrence strategies
• JIM BURCH (National Policing Institute)
  Crime gun intelligence centers and gun crime investigations
• JOSEPH B. RICHARDSON (University of Maryland)
  Intervening with gun crime victims
• GAREN WINTEMUTE (University of California, Davis)
  Reducing the illegal supply of firearms
• ED MAGUIRE (Arizona State University)
  Community-based violence intervention strategies
• VERONICA PEAR (University of California, Davis)
  Extreme risk protection orders to reduce mass shootings and other firearms violence
• APRIL ZEOLI (University of Michigan)
  Domestic violence laws and firearms violence
• DANIEL WEBSTER (Johns Hopkins University)
  Universal background check laws

 

All briefings will be summarized in the Spring 2025 Issue of Translational Criminology Magazine.