Dr. Kapoor is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Dr. Baranoski and Dr. Norko are Professors of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Dr. Viereck is a Research Analyst, Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Hartford, CT, and a Lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Dr. Lin is an Associate Research Professor, School of Social Work, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT. Dr. Swanson is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Dr. Easter is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC. Dr. Zeoli is an Associate Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Frattaroli is a Professor at the Center for Gun Violence Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2024 Jun 4;52(2):165-175. doi: 10.29158/JAAPL.240022-24.
Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia have enacted Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) statutes, which allow temporary removal of firearms from individuals who pose an imminent risk of harm to themselves or others. Connecticut was the first state to enact such a law in 1999. The law's implementation and use between 1999 and 2013 were previously described, finding that ERPOs were pursued rarely for the first decade and that most orders were issued in response to concerns about suicide or self-harm rather than about interpersonal violence. The current study analyzes over 1,400 ERPOs in Connecticut between 2013 and 2020 in several domains: respondent demographics, circumstances leading to ERPO filing, type of threat (suicide, violence to others, or both), number and type of firearms removed, prevalence of mental illness and drug and alcohol use, and legal outcomes. Results are similar to the earlier study, indicating that ERPO respondents in Connecticut are primarily White, male, middle-aged residents of small towns and suburbs who pose a risk of harm to themselves (67.9%) more often than to others (42.8%). Significant gender differences between ERPO respondents are discussed, as are state-specific trends over time and differences between Connecticut and other states with published ERPO data.
21 个州和哥伦比亚特区已经颁布了极端风险保护令（ERPO）法规，这些法规允许暂时从对自己或他人构成迫在眉睫伤害风险的个人手中移除枪支。康涅狄格州是 1999 年第一个颁布此类法律的州。此前曾描述过该法律在 1999 年至 2013 年之间的实施和使用情况，发现 ERPO 在最初的十年中很少被采用，而且大多数命令都是针对自杀或自残问题而不是人际暴力问题发出的。本研究分析了康涅狄格州在 2013 年至 2020 年期间的 1400 多份 ERPO，涉及多个领域：受访者人口统计学特征、引发 ERPO 申请的情况、威胁类型（自杀、对他人的暴力或两者兼而有之）、被移除枪支的数量和类型、精神疾病和药物及酒精使用的流行情况，以及法律结果。结果与早期研究相似，表明康涅狄格州的 ERPO 受访者主要是白人、男性、年龄在中年的小镇和郊区居民，他们更倾向于对自己（67.9%）而不是对他人（42.8%）造成伤害。讨论了 ERPO 受访者之间的显著性别差异，以及随着时间的推移各州的具体趋势以及与其他公布 ERPO 数据的州之间的差异。
