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80 Law & Contemp. Probs. 179 (2017)
Implementation and Effectiveness of Connecticut's Risk-Based Gun Removal Law: Does It Prevent Suicides

handle is hein.journals/lcp80 and id is 437 raw text is: IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CONNECTICUT'S RISK-BASED GUN REMOVAL LAW: DOES IT PREVENT SUICIDES? JEFFREY W. SWANSON, PHD; MICHAEL A. NORKO, MD, MAR HSiu-Ju LIN, PHD; KELLY ALANIS-HIRSCH, PHD LINDA K. FRISMAN, PHD; MADELON V. BARANOSKI, PHD, MSN MICHELE M. EASTER, PHD; ALLISON G. ROBERTSON, PHD, MPH MARVIN S. SWARTZ, MD AND RICHARD J. BONNIE, LLB* I INTRODUCTION Developing practical, effective, and legally sustainable policies to separate firearms from people at risk of harming themselves or others presents a potentially important, but challenging, public health opportunity for gun violence prevention in the United States. Risk-based, temporary, preemptive gun removal is a legal tool that four states-Connecticut,' Indiana,2 California,' and Washington4-have adopted, and which has recently attracted considerable Copyright @ 2017 by the authors. This article is also available online at http://lcp.law.duke.edul. * Jeffrey W. Swanson, PhD, Kelly Alanis-Hirsch, PhD, Michele M. Easter, PhD, Allison G. Robertson, PhD, MPH, and Marvin S. Swartz, MD, are with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. Hsiu-Ju Lin, PhD, and Linda K. Frisman, PhD, are with the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Michael A. Norko, MD, MAR, and Madelon V. Baranoski, PhD, MSN, are with the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. Richard J. Bonnie, LLB, is with the University of Virginia Law School. The authors wish to acknowledge the assistance of Tameka Hollis, MBA, and are grateful to the collaborating state agencies in Connecticut for contributing the data that made this research possible. The research presented in this article was supported by The Fund for a Safer Future, The Elizabeth K. Dollard Trust, and The Brain and Behavior Foundation. The research, in part, was previously presented at the conference, Second Generation of Second Amendment Law and Policy at New York University School of Law in New York City on Friday, April 8, 2016; and as part of Dr. Swanson's Frontiers in Science distinguished lecture at the American Psychiatric Association's 169th annual meeting, in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 16, 2016. Corresponding author contact: Jeffrey W. Swanson, PhD; Box 3071 DUMC, Durham, NC, 27710; jeffrey.swanson@duke.edu; 919 682-4827. 1. CONN. GEN. STAT. § 29-38c (1999). 2. IND. CODE ANN. § 35-47-14 (2006). 3. CAL. PENAL CODE § 18100 (2016). 4. Washington Individual Gun Access Prevention by Court Order, Initiative 1491 (2016).

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