Gun Violence on Walkable Routes to and from School: Recommendations for Policy and Practice.

ABSTRACT: Gun-related violence exposure is a significant public health problem for urban youth. Few studies have implemented methods to estimate the spatial influence of activity spaces on gun violence exposure constrained by the physical configuration of walkable street networks. The present research uses computational network and local indicators of spatial autocorrelation methods to explore gun violence exposure along the walkable streets near schools in Compton, California. Findings demonstrated strong evidence that gun violence is clustered at all distances along the pedestrian network and in proximity to Compton Unified School District (K-12) schools, reaching a maximum between 1.2 and 1.8 mi; thereafter the "attractiveness" of schools to gun violence was inhibiting. Almost all schools had at

SUBMITTER: Barboza-Salerno GE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10728395 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature