How to Get Your Hands on Good Violent Crime Data

by Kaitlin WashburnAssociation of Health Care JournalistsApril 22, 2026 It’s a regular struggle on the gun violence beat to find good data that’s up-to-date and comprehensive — a reality we frequently cover on this page. A recent webinar from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center laid out several useful tips and sources for good gun violence data. … [Jeffrey] Butts, of John Jay, also discussed the state of … Continue reading How to Get Your Hands on Good Violent Crime Data

News-Journal – Researcher Believes Teens Placed in Psychiatric Hospitals Too Often

“I think that if the true figures were known, if we had them, they would be much higher,” he said. Schwartz and a graduate student Jeffrey Butts studied 20,000 patient records for youngsters aged 6 to 17 who were admitted to psychiatric wards of general hospitals in 1987. Continue reading News-Journal – Researcher Believes Teens Placed in Psychiatric Hospitals Too Often