Research Rewind
A new feature compiling the latest research in gun violence prevention
A prime directive of GVPedia is to continually search for and compile the latest peer-reviewed academic and scientific studies and reports related to gun violence. With this new monthly feature, we will list the most up-to-date information as an easy go-to to help fight the disinformation that floods our digital age.
Beyond residential and extra-local spaces: Gun violence exposure in urban neighbourhood mobility networks
“Gun violence is one of the leading causes of premature death in the United States. While research examining the impact of gun violence has focused on direct victimisation, exposure within residential communities experiencing gun violence is consequential. However, exposure is not a spatially bounded process, as residents spend significant time outside of their neighbourhoods and travel to neighbourhoods both near and far. As such, a more complete portrait of gun violence exposure must consider this higher-order, neighbourhood network.”
Caregivers Asking About Firearms in Homes Their Children Visit
“Firearm injuries are the leading cause of death among U.S children and teens. Decreasing firearm access by storing firearms locked and unloaded has the potential to decrease deaths in this population, thus clinical, community, and policy initiatives have focused on improving home firearm storage. However, the risk to children and teens extends beyond their own homes….”
Disaggregating Aggravated Assault: A Comparison of Nonfatal Shootings and Other Nonfatal Gun Assaults in the National Incident-Based Reporting System
“Diverse forms of nonfatal gun violence are grouped into a single aggravated assault offense category in national law enforcement crime data, limiting the development of targeted crime prevention efforts. This study assesses how nonfatal shootings differ from other forms of aggravated gun assault that do not involve a nonfatal shooting.”
Firearm Homicides by Police in the United States: Who is Shot and How Many Times?
“The U.S. has the highest rate of deadly police encounters in the developed world. Recent cases highlight that police shoot individual suspects several times. This study aimed to assess variation in rates of police firearm homicide and the number of gunshot wounds among those shot and killed by police.”
Firearm Violence and Dental Health: A Neighborhood Analysis in 100 U.S. Cities, 2014–2022
“This study examined the relationship between community-level firearm violence and dental health, focusing on dental care utilization and edentulism (i.e., total tooth loss).”
Gun Violence as a Source of Anxiety and Stress in the U.S. Population
“The impact of gun violence on mental health is not limited to individuals who have experienced a shooting. This report enumerates, for the entire U.S. population, the prevalence of anxiety and stress about gun violence. It also describes evidence-informed interventions that may improve these symptoms by reducing gun violence.”
In-person and media gun violence exposure in the United States: prevalence and disparities in a nationally representative, cross-sectional sample of adults
“Knowledge remains limited about how people experience different types of exposure to gun violence. We analyzed the prevalence of in-person and media gun violence exposure (GVE) in a nationally representative sample of US adults.”
Mental and Physical Health-Related Risk Factors Among Females Who Died by Firearm Suicide
“Are there distinct profiles of mental and/or physical illness and suicidal behaviors (ie, thoughts, intent, and attempts) among females who died by firearm suicide?”
Mental health consequences of exposure to mass and non-mass shootings in a national sample of U.S. adults
“Gun violence exposure is a major public health issue in the United States, yet its mental health consequences remain insufficiently examined. This study investigates the short- and long-term psychological self-reported impacts of lifetime gun violence exposure using a cross-sectional survey of 10,000 respondents designed to be representative of U.S. adults administered online by YouGov in January 2024.”
Patterns of U.S. Firearm Injury Emergency Department Visits by Month, Day, and Time During 2018 to 2023
“Monitoring temporal trends in firearm injury–related emergency department (ED) visits is challenging because traditional surveillance systems lack detailed temporal information.”
Sources of organizational variability in fatal police shootings in the USA
“The rate of fatal shootings by officers is highly variable across American police agencies, yet the reasons for this variability remain unclear. This study uses Bayesian multilevel models to partition the variation in fatal police shooting rates across 2,727 police agencies between 2015 and 2020….”
The effect of child access prevention laws on adolescent suicide: a negative control approach
“Recent publications on Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws suggest substantial protective effects on adolescent firearm suicide. However, these studies have also found comparable protective effect estimates on adolescent non-firearm suicide and adult firearm suicide, which may indicate residual confounding. Here we apply bias analysis techniques to assess the effects of CAP laws while accounting for potential unmeasured sources of bias using a negative control approach.”
“The only friend I had was my gun”: A mixed-methods study of gun culture in school shootings
“Firearms are the leading cause of death for minors in the United States and US gun culture is often discussed as a reason behind the prevalence of school shootings. Yet, few studies systematically analyze if there is a connection between the two: Do school shooters show a distinct gun culture? This article studies gun culture in action in school shootings.”
Understanding knowledge and approval for sociopolitical groups: results from the 2023 National Survey of Gun Policy
“Increased concerns of political violence in the US have drawn attention to sociopolitical movements across the political spectrum. The 2023 National Survey of Gun Policy sought to characterize approval of these movements and whether gun ownership was associated with this approval.”
