GVPedia
Gun Violence Research
GVPedia arms policymakers, advocates, and the public with facts and data to create evidence-based policy to reduce gun violence.
Welcome to GVPedia, a project created to provide ready access to academic research and high quality data on gun violence. GVPedia is currently comprised of two main features:
The Study Database
The Database is a collection of more than 2,000 academic studies analyzing a wide range of gun violence subjects that can be searched by topic, author, journal, and year of publication. Each study is accompanied by an abstract, and hundreds of studies have the full text available for you to read.
GVP University
GVP University is a collection of white papers and fact sheets that will eventually cover every major topic in gun violence. Intended to provide summaries of the issues and succinct points, they serve as a jumping-off point to explore each topic in greater detail with our Study Database.
Recent Fact Sheets
What to Know Before Buying a Gun.
Explore the critical information on the risks associated with gun ownership and how it impacts our communities.
GVPedia’s Concealed Carry Reciprocity Fact Sheet
GVPedia envisions a world in which disinformation no longer holds sway over the gun violence debate and the public has ready access to accurate information about firearms and the risks they pose.
The Weaponization of Crime Data Disinformation is Exploding
Is violent crime skyrocketing or plummeting? This question has become a fixture of the 2024 presidential race, with dueling claims from both campaigns.
Recent Studies
Physician-driven or self-directed safe firearm storage guidance: Which one is best?
Background/purpose Access to firearms is a preventable cause of unintentional injury and suicide in children. Pediatric physicians provide injury prevention guidance, but firearm safety may not routinely be included. The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the...
Unveiling the Unseen: Documenting and Analyzing Nonfatal Shootings by Police
The 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted what criminologist Lawrence Sherman called the Second Great Awakening of “both public and scholarly sentiment against avoidable police shootings.” (The First Great...
Examining homicides and suicides cross-nationally: Economic factors, guns and video games
Understanding why different nations have different homicide and suicide rates has been of interest to scholars, policy makers and the general public for years. Multiple theories have been offered, related to the economy, presence of guns and even exposure to violence...
