Gun Politics & Policy

High-level summaries of US crime statistics with links to detailed year-by-year analysis. Includes city-level information.

Key resource for data about crime in the US.

Good starting point for researching gun violence: Report: Criminal Victimization (2016)

Annual publication summarizing the year's crime statistics, as reported by police departments to the FBI

Points researchers to relevant data tables:
• Murder Victims by Weapon (2012-2016)
• Availability of Expanded Offense Data (includes weapon)

Data available from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, including:

• Gun manufacturing and export
• Firearms trace data (national, state, international)

Query data on violent crime, including mechanism, across multiple countries and years

See also UNDOC program on Firearms

Conducted through a collaboration among international development agencies,

Selected findings from GVD section on firearms:
• In 2016, firearms were used to kill about 210,000 people—38 per cent of all victims of lethal violence.
• Firearms were also used in at least half of all lethal violence incidents in several African countries—Benin, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, and Togo—as well as in Albania, Thailand, and the United States.

Database for research on crime, its causes and impacts, and legal and social implications.

Includes scholarly journals in criminology, as well as selected correctional and law enforcement trade publications