Daniel Webster - Firearm Seller Accountability Measures and the Diversion of Guns to Criminals

On Feb. 22, 2012, George Mason University's Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy held a Congressional Briefing: Reducing Gun Violence: Lessons from Research and Practice.

"Understanding the Nature of Urban Gun Violence Problems"
"Firearm Seller Accountability Measures and the Diversion of Guns to Criminals"

Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH is Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research and Deputy Director of the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has also been a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy since 1992. Dr. Webster has published articles on the effects of firearm policies, youth gun acquisition and carrying, the prevention of gun violence, intimate partner violence, and adolescent violence prevention. He has studied the effects of a variety of violence prevention interventions including state firearm policies, community programs to interrupt violence and change social norms, public education and advocacy campaigns, and school-based curricula. Dr. Webster teaches violence prevention and research methods for health policy. He also directs the Injury Control Certificate Program at Johns Hopkins.

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