Research Rewind
A compendium of the latest studies on gun violence
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.
Child and Adolescent Firearm-Related Homicide Occurring at Home
“To analyze pediatric firearm homicides by location and sociodemographic characteristics. We hypothesized that young children are most likely to die by in-home firearm homicide.”
Examining the effects of firearm lethality and aggressors’ intentions to kill on injurious firearm violence at American schools: A research note
“This study examined firearm lethality and aggressors’ lethal intent on injurious fatal and nonfatal school shootings using data from The American School Shooting Study, which covers 329 school shootings in the United States from 1990 to 2016.”
Firearm Disqualification and Rights Restoration Among Adults with Mental Illness in Virginia
“This study evaluated legal prohibitions on firearm possession in a population of 128,090 adults in Virginia with a serious mental illness and record of at least one psychiatric hospitalization between 1998 and 2015.”
Firearm injury and young children: a critical review
“The goal of this critical review was to provide a developmentally-informed overview of the patterns and prevalence, contexts, and impacts for all-cause firearm injury among children ages 0–5 years. We review findings from interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed studies to inform considerations for prevention strategies.”
The Role of Intellectual Humility, Trauma, and Psychopathy in Gun Violence: Understanding Their Implications on a Path Toward Prevention
“We focused on determining the relationships between intellectual humility (IH), psychopathy, and childhood trauma to understand those predisposed toward gun violence, in hopes of contributing to future preventative measures against gun violence.”
Trends in firearm death among middle and high-school aged rural and urban adolescents from 2001 to 2022
“…the purpose of the current study was to identify changes over time in injury mortality and specifically firearm-related mortality, among middle (11–13 year olds) and high school-aged (14–18 year olds) adolescents in metro and non-metro areas of the United States.”
