#  Professor Rob Sampson's and Postdoc Rebecca Bucci's research on gun violence and prediction bias in the criminal justice system, with Roland Neil (PhD ’22), featured in the Harvard Gazette 

 





May 16, 2023

 

 

 The Harvard Gazette [featured](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/05/how-birth-year-predicts-exposure-to-gun-violence/) research conducted by Professor [Rob Sampson](/people/robert-j-sampson) and Postdoc [Rebecca Bucci](/people/rebecca-bucci). Their study, [Inequalities in Exposure to Firearm Violence by Race, Sex, and Birth Cohort From Childhood to Age 40 Years, 1995-2021](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2804655), has also been discussed in US News and World Report, ABC News, CNN, and NPR. See also [How social change brings bias to predictive models used in criminal justice settings](https:/news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/how-social-change-brings-bias-to-predictive-models-used-in-criminal-justice-settings/) in the Gazette, which describes research findings from the paper [Cohort Bias in Predictive Risk Assessments of Future Criminal Justice System Involvement](https:/www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301990120).



 

 

 



 

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