Brandon Centerwall

{{short description|American epidemiologist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2019}} {{Orphan|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Brandon Centerwall | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954}} | birth_place = Los Angeles, California<ref name="signorielli" /> | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | home_town = | other_names = | pronounce = | residence = | citizenship = | fields = Epidemiology | workplaces = University of Washington | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Research on media violence | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = |website=  | footnotes = }} '''Brandon S. Centerwall''' (born 1954)<ref name="signorielli">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/violenceinmediar0000sign |url-access=registration |title=Violence in the Media: A Reference Handbook |last=Signorielli |first=Nancy |date=2005 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781851096046 |page=[https://archive.org/details/violenceinmediar0000sign/page/101 101] |language=en}}</ref> is an American epidemiologist and former professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. He is known for researching the effects of media violence exposure, especially television, on homicide and assault rates.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Centerwall |first=B. S. |date=June 10, 1992 |title=Television and violence: The scale of the problem and where to go from here |journal=JAMA |volume=267 |issue=22 |pages=3059–3063 |issn=0098-7484 |pmid=1588720 |doi=10.1001/jama.1992.03480220077031}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/10/25/video-game-violence-pushing-the-wrong-buttons/467efb77-ee10-4bad-8678-7188c11b35d1/ |title=VIDEO GAME VIOLENCE: PUSHING THE WRONG BUTTONS |last=Cros |first=Jessica |date=October 25, 1993 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=12 December 2017 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> For example, in a 1989 study, he found that homicide rates in the United States and Canada doubled within twenty years of television being introduced there, as compared to homicide rates among whites in South Africa.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=CENTERWALL |first=BRANDON S. |date=April 1, 1989 |url=https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/129/4/643/87857?redirectedFrom=PDF |journal=American Journal of Epidemiology |volume=129 |issue=4 |pages=643–652 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115180 |pmid=2923115 |issn=0002-9262|title=Exposure to Television as a Risk Factor for Violence |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.deseret.com/1989/4/8/18801825/television-violence-linked-to-doubling-of-homicide-rates-in-u-s/ |title=TELEVISION VIOLENCE LINKED TO DOUBLING OF HOMICIDE RATES IN U.S. |date=April 8, 1989 |work=Deseret News |access-date=12 December 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Cannon, Carl M. |date=July–August 1993 |title=Honey, I warped the kids |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1993/07/motherjones-ja93-honey-i-warped-kids/ |magazine=Mother Jones |access-date=11 January 2019}}</ref> He has also researched racial differences in domestic homicide rates, finding in 1995 that they are no longer statistically significant after controlling for socioeconomic status.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Centerwall |first=Brandon S. |date=June 14, 1995 |title=Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Domestic Homicide |journal=JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association |volume=273 |issue=22 |pages=1755–8 |doi=10.1001/jama.1995.03520460037031 |issn=0098-7484 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/06/14/nations-violence-a-public-health-emergency-ama-says-in-report/b03fde2e-c1ce-4098-a265-2768e2e76597/ |access-date=12 December 2017 |pmid=7769768|url-access=subscription }}</ref> His research on the prevalence of handguns and homicide rates, in which he found no statistically significant relationship between the two,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Centerwall |first=Brandon S. |date=December 1, 1991 |title=Homicide and the Prevalence of Handguns: Canada and the United States, 1976 to 1980 |url=https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/134/11/1245/88581 |journal=American Journal of Epidemiology |volume=134 |issue=11 |pages=1245–1260 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116027 |pmid=1843854 |issn=0002-9262|url-access=subscription }}</ref> has been cited favorably by some gun rights activists.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1993/10/27/gun-control-doesnt-equal-crime-control/ |title=Gun Control Doesn't Equal Crime Control |last=Gifford |first=Dan |date=October 27, 1993 |work=The Baltimore Sun |access-date=12 December 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Ketcham |first=Christopher |date=July 14, 2014 |title=Confessions of a Liberal Gun Lover |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/confessions-of-a-liberal-gun-lover-20140714 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=11 January 2019}}</ref>

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