Brandon Centerwall Explained
| Brandon Centerwall |
| Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Epidemiology |
| Workplaces: | University of Washington |
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| Known For: | Research on media violence |
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Brandon S. Centerwall (born 1954)[1] is an American epidemiologist and former professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. He is known for researching the effects of media violence exposure, especially television, on homicide and assault rates.[2] [3] For example, in a 1989 study, he found that homicide rates in the United States and Canada doubled within twenty years of television being introduced there, as compared to homicide rates among whites in South Africa.[4] [5] [6] He has also researched racial differences in domestic homicide rates, finding in 1995 that they are no longer statistically significant after controlling for socioeconomic status.[7] His research on the prevalence of handguns and homicide rates, in which he found no statistically significant relationship between the two,[8] has been cited favorably by some gun rights activists.[9] [10]
Notes and References
- Book: Signorielli, Nancy . Violence in the Media: A Reference Handbook . registration . 2005 . ABC-CLIO . 9781851096046 . 101 . en.
- Centerwall . B. S. . June 10, 1992 . Television and violence: The scale of the problem and where to go from here . JAMA . 267 . 22 . 3059–3063 . 0098-7484 . 1588720 . 10.1001/jama.1992.03480220077031.
- News: VIDEO GAME VIOLENCE: PUSHING THE WRONG BUTTONS . Cros . Jessica . October 25, 1993 . The Washington Post . 12 December 2017 . 0190-8286.
- CENTERWALL . BRANDON S. . April 1, 1989 . Exposure to Television as a Risk Factor for Violence . American Journal of Epidemiology . 129 . 4 . 643–652 . 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115180 . 2923115 . 0002-9262.
- News: TELEVISION VIOLENCE LINKED TO DOUBLING OF HOMICIDE RATES IN U.S. . April 8, 1989 . Deseret News . 12 December 2017 .
- Cannon, Carl M. . July–August 1993 . Honey, I warped the kids . Mother Jones . 11 January 2019.
- Centerwall . Brandon S. . June 14, 1995 . Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Domestic Homicide . JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association . 273 . 22 . 1755–8 . 10.1001/jama.1995.03520460037031 . 0098-7484 . 12 December 2017 . 7769768.
- Centerwall . Brandon S. . December 1, 1991 . Homicide and the Prevalence of Handguns: Canada and the United States, 1976 to 1980 . American Journal of Epidemiology . 134 . 11 . 1245–1260 . 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116027 . 1843854 . 0002-9262.
- News: Gun Control Doesn't Equal Crime Control . Gifford . Dan . October 27, 1993 . The Baltimore Sun . 12 December 2017 .
- Ketcham . Christopher . July 14, 2014 . Confessions of a Liberal Gun Lover . Rolling Stone . 11 January 2019.
