Violence Research Data & Publications
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06/09/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "CDF Gun Report Shows Increase of Child and Teen Deaths"
"Imagine a bullet fired from a semiautomatic pistol, moving through the night darkness faster than the speed of sound—more than 1,200 feet per second or four football fields end to end. Now imagine that bullet slamming into the body of a child like a brick through a picture window...." -
05/28/08
Protect Children, Not Guns 2008
The Children's Defense Fund's 2008 report on the affect gun violence has on our society and our children. -
05/16/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Congress Must Act to Protect Young Detainees from Abuse"
"In recent years, the Children's Defense Fund has received horrifying reports of the physical and sexual abuse of children and teens in juvenile correctional facilities. There are accounts of children being forced to eat their own vomit, of children being left naked for weeks in small isolation cells with nothing but a hole in the floor for a toilet...." -
02/15/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The Supreme Court Must Uphold DC’s Handgun Ban"
"This year, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to overturn a lower court decision striking down the District of Columbia's 1976 handgun ban designed to reduce violent crime. If the Court reverses the lower court and upholds the ban...." -
01/31/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Remarks at Duke University, January 2008
A transcript of CDF President Marian Wright Edelman's remarks at Duke University's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration in January 2008 -
10/10/07
America's Cradle to Prison PipelineSM Report
This CDF report documents America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, an urgent national crisis at the intersection of poverty and race that puts Black boys at a one in three lifetime risk of going to jail, and Latino boys at a one in six lifetime risk of the same fate. -
04/27/07
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "We Must Stem Gun Violence"
We must face the hard truth that firearms are so easy to acquire in the United States that lethal mass shootings are mathematically inevitable. Our nation was stunned by Cho Seung Hui's shooting spree at Virginia Tech University where he killed 32 students and professors and wounded 15. -
01/24/07
Protect Children, Not Guns 2007
The Children's Defense Fund's 2007 report on the affect gun violence has on our society and our children. -
01/24/06
Protect Children, Not Guns 2006
The Children's Defense Fund's 2006 report on the affect gun violence has on our society and our children. -
01/01/05
Protect Children, Not Guns 2005
The Children's Defense Fund's 2005 report on the affect gun violence has on our society and our children.
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