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

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 Frank Guggenheim Foundation collaboratively presented 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. View videos of each briefing here. Briefings are also summarized in the Spring 2025 Issue of Translational Criminology Magazine. 

Photo by Max Taylor

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