By Caroline Brooks
MSU Today
April M. Zeoli, associate professor in Michigan State University’s School of Criminal Justice, has been awarded a $1.3M grant to investigate the use of extreme risk protection orders, a relatively new legal tool to reduce gun violence risk through temporarily suspending a high-risk individual’s ability to access guns, and whether they are associated with reduced population-level suicide risk.
Zeoli’s study was selected from among 48 full proposals invited by the National Collaborative for Gun Violence Research after receiving 238 letters of interest responding to its proposal request.
Her two-year study will examine extreme risk protection order, or ERPO, laws, characteristics of ERPO petitions, factors associated with petitions being granted or denied, and violence outcomes within and across six states representing varying policy and cultural contexts: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland and Washington.
Gun violence is one of the five leading causes of death among Americans aged one-64.
Using ERPO petitions and orders, Zeoli and her team will identify factors associated with ERPOs being filed and granted. They will also conduct an analysis to determine if ERPOs are associated with reductions in county-level suicide rates.
Zeoli’s study is among more than $10 million in grants announced by the Collaborative for 18 research projects that will produce evidence for improving gun policy in America.
Zeoli is a gun violence researcher whose research focuses on gun laws that restrict high-risk individuals from accessing guns and the implementation of those laws.
She is a national expert on domestic violence-related gun laws and gun-related domestic violence. She is joined in the research by Shannon Frattaroli at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a team of gun violence researchers.
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