The impact of community violence

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NewsyDexter Voisin, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Dean of Applied Social Sciences, discussed new data that suggests gun violence among children and teenagers jumped 50% between 2019 and 2021, noting the additional trauma impact on a neighborhood affected by gun violence. “The effects tend to be anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress disorders,” he said, “and all the psychological dysregulation that you would anticipate.”

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