Firearms
What Does Gunshot Detection Technology Tell Us About Gun Violence
Date Published
2017
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Notes From the Field: Using Forensic Intelligence to Drive Gun Crime Investigations
Date Published
June 2021
Agencies
NIJ
Initiation of a Gunshot Wound Trauma Atlas from Human Cranial Bone, Final Summary Overview
Date Published
2020
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Tragedy to Transformation: Preventing School Violence with Proven Programs - Plenary Presentation, NIJ Virtual Conference on School Safety
February 2021
In the weeks following the murder of her son, Dylan, in his first-grade classroom, Nicole Hockley co-founded Sandy Hook Promise with a mission to end school shootings. The research-informed Know The Signs programs she helped develop and launch have since taught more than 12 million people how to prevent violence and self-harm. Through these no-cost programs, Sandy Hook Promise has averted multiple school shooting plots, teen suicides, and countless other acts of violence.
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Spectrochemical mapping using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy as a more objective approach to shooting distance determination
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Project Safe Neighborhoods: Strategic Interventions - Chronic Violent Offenders Lists (Case Study 4)
Date Published
May 2006
Agencies
BJA
Project Safe Neighborhoods: Strategic Interventions - Lowell, District of Massachusetts (Case Study 6)
Date Published
February 2007
Agencies
BJA
Project Safe Neighborhoods: Strategic Interventions-Eastern District of Missouri (Case Study 7)
Date Published
February 2007
Agencies
BJA
Project Safe Neighborhoods: Strategic Interventions - Gun Prosecution Case Screening (Case Study 1)
Date Published
May 2006
Agencies
BJA
"Gotta Make Your Heaven": Guns, Safety, and the Edge of Adulthood in New York City
Date Published
July 2020
Publication Type
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Advancing Understanding, and Informing Prevention of Public Mass Shootings: Findings from NIJ Funded Studies, Part 2
November 2020
In recent years, NIJ invested in several research projects to advance understanding and inform prevention of public mass shootings.
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Reference Ballistic Toolmark Database for Research and Development of Identification Systems and Confidence Limits
2013-R2R-4843
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2013
$278,014
Firearm Toolmark Population Statistics for Objective Identification and Error Rate Estimation
2016-DNR-6257-1
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2016
$367,863
Establishing a National Firearms and Toolmark Statistical Background Population for Calculation of Error Rates
2016-DNR-6257-3
Open
Funding First Awarded
2018
$550,615
Advancing Understanding, and Informing Prevention of Public Mass Shootings: Findings from NIJ Funded Studies, Part 1
November 2020
In recent years, NIJ invested in several research projects to advance understanding and inform prevention of public mass shootings.
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Assessing Class Consistency and Common Source Using 3D Virtual Comparison Microscopy in Firearm Forensics
2020-DQ-BX-0028
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2020
$199,615
Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective
2020-75-CX-0009
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2020
$435,020
Police Investigations of Gun Offenses: Understanding and Enhancing Performance
2020-R2-CX-0011
Open
Funding First Awarded
2020
$619,648
Problem-Oriented Policing, Deterrence, and Youth Violence: An Evaluation of Boston's Operation Ceasefire
Date Published
August 2001
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Project Identification - A Study of Handguns Used in Crime
Date Published
1976
Publication Type
Statistics
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Consent to Search and Seize: Evaluating an Innovative Youth Firearm Suppression Program
Date Published
1996
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Peers and Gun Use Among Urban Adolescent Males: An Examination of Social Embeddedness
Date Published
February 2009
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Technological Approaches to Controlling Random Gunfire: Results of a Gunshot Detection System Field Test
Date Published
2002
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
The Last Link: from Gun Acquisition to Criminal Use
Date Published
2019
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored