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Overview

Daniel W. Webster is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research broadly covers social sciences with a focus on health and psychology. The primary subfields of study include health, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, ophthalmology, and general health professions.

The scientist's work extensively addresses topics such as gun ownership and violence research, suicide and self-harm studies, crime patterns and interventions, traumatic ocular and foreign body injuries, injury epidemiology and prevention, policing practices and perceptions, and autopsy techniques and outcomes.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Daniel W. Webster include:

  • Evidence concerning the regulation of firearms design, sale, and carrying on fatal mass shootings in the United States (2020) published in Criminology & Public Policy
  • Purchaser Licensing, Point-of-Sale Background Check Laws, and Firearm Homicide and Suicide in 4 US States, 1985-2017 (2020) published in American Journal of Public Health
  • Gun purchasing behaviours during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, March to mid-July 2020 (2021) published in International Review of Psychiatry
  • Using synthetic control methodology to estimate effects of a Cure Violence intervention in Baltimore, Maryland (2021) published in Injury Prevention
  • Dexmedetomidine and Propofol Sedation in Critically Ill Patients and Dose-associated 90-Day Mortality: A Secondary Cohort Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial (SPICE III) (2022) published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Frequent collaborators in research include Cassandra K. Crifasi, Julie Ward, Alexander D. McCourt, Colleen L. Barry, and Shani Buggs.

The scientist's publications often appear in journals such as Preventive Medicine, Injury Prevention, Criminology & Public Policy, American Journal of Public Health, and American Journal of Epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • Risk Factors for Femicide in Abusive Relationships: Results From a Multisite Case Control Study

    Jacquelyn C. Campbell;Daniel Webster;Jane Koziol-McLain;Carolyn Block

  • The Danger Assessment Validation of a Lethality Risk Assessment Instrument for Intimate Partner Femicide

    Jacquelyn C. Campbell;Daniel W. Webster;Nancy Glass

  • Effect of Florida’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program and Pill Mill Laws on Opioid Prescribing and Use

    Lainie Rutkow;Hsien Yen Chang;Matthew Daubresse;Daniel W. Webster

  • Effects of News Media Messages About Mass Shootings on Attitudes Toward Persons With Serious Mental Illness and Public Support for Gun Control Policies

    Emma Elizabeth McGinty;Daniel W. Webster;Colleen L. Barry

  • Weapon carrying among inner-city junior high school students: defensive behavior vs aggressive delinquency.

    Daniel W. Webster;P. S. Gainer;Howard R. Champion

  • Youth violence: What we know and what we need to know.

    Brad J. Bushman;Katherine Newman;Sandra L. Calvert;Geraldine Downey

  • Assessing Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Homicide

    Jacquelyn C. Campbell;Daniel W. Webster;Jane Koziol-McLain;Carolyn Rebecca Block

  • News Media Framing of Serious Mental Illness and Gun Violence in the United States, 1997-2012

    Emma Elizabeth McGinty;Daniel W. Webster;Marian Jarlenski;Colleen L. Barry

  • Association between youth-focused firearm laws and youth suicides.

    Daniel W. Webster;Jon S. Vernick;April M. Zeoli;Jennifer A. Manganello

  • The role of alcohol use in intimate partner femicide.

    Phyllis W. Sharps;Jacquelyn Campbell;Doris Campbell;Fay Gary

  • Risk factors for femicide-suicide in abusive relationships: results from a multisite case control study.

    Jane Koziol-McLain;Daniel W. Webster;Judith M. McFarlane;Carolyn Rebecca Block

  • Effects of the Repeal of Missouri’s Handgun Purchaser Licensing Law on Homicides

    Daniel W. Webster;Cassandra Kercher Crifasi;Jon S. Vernick

  • Effects of Baltimore's Safe Streets Program on gun violence: a replication of Chicago's CeaseFire Program.

    Daniel W. Webster;Jennifer Mendel Whitehill;Jennifer Mendel Whitehill;Jon S. Vernick;Frank C. Curriero

  • After Newtown — Public Opinion on Gun Policy and Mental Illness

    Colleen L. Barry;Emma Elizabeth McGinty;Jon S. Vernick;Daniel W. Webster

  • Storage Practices of US Gun Owners in 2016

    Cassandra K. Crifasi;Mitchell L. Doucette;Emma E. McGinty;Daniel W. Webster

  • Effects of domestic violence policies, alcohol taxes and police staffing levels on intimate partner homicide in large US cities

    April M Zeoli;Daniel W Webster

  • Association Between Connecticut's Permit-to-Purchase Handgun Law and Homicides.

    Kara E. Rudolph;Kara E. Rudolph;Kara E. Rudolph;Elizabeth A. Stuart;Jon S. Vernick;Daniel W. Webster

  • Primary care physicians’ perspectives on the prescription opioid epidemic

    Alene Kennedy-Hendricks;Susan H. Busch;Emma Elizabeth McGinty;Marcus A. Bachhuber

  • Effects of changes in permit-to-purchase handgun laws in Connecticut and Missouri on suicide rates

    Cassandra K. Crifasi;John Speed Meyers;Jon S. Vernick;Daniel W. Webster

  • Analysis of the Strength of Legal Firearms Restrictions for Perpetrators of Domestic Violence and Their Associations With Intimate Partner Homicide.

    April M Zeoli;Alexander McCourt;Shani Buggs;Shannon Frattaroli

  • The Unconvincing Case For School-Based Conflict Resolution Programs For Adolescents

    Daniel W. Webster

Frequent Co-Authors

Emma E. McGinty
Emma E. McGinty Cornell University
Colleen L. Barry
Colleen L. Barry Johns Hopkins University
Garen J. Wintemute
Garen J. Wintemute University of California, Davis
Jacquelyn C. Campbell
Jacquelyn C. Campbell Johns Hopkins University
Elizabeth A. Stuart
Elizabeth A. Stuart Johns Hopkins University
Nancy Glass
Nancy Glass Johns Hopkins University
Magdalena Cerdá
Magdalena Cerdá New York University
Phyllis W. Sharps
Phyllis W. Sharps Johns Hopkins University
Carl A. Latkin
Carl A. Latkin Johns Hopkins University
Philip J. Leaf
Philip J. Leaf Johns Hopkins University

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