BACKGROUND: Among developed nations, the United States has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership, and the highest homicide rate. We examine whether the United States is merely an exception, or if a relationship between gun availability and homicide exists across...
Two of every three American homicide victims are killed with firearms, yet little is known about the role played by household firearms in homicide victimization. The present study is the first to examine the cross sectional association between household firearm...
Homicides followed by the suicide of the perpetrator constitute a serious form of interpersonal violence. Until now no study has directly compared homicide-suicides to other violent deaths from multiple countries, allowing for a better understanding of the nature of...
CONTEXT: In the United States, more than 45,000 women died from gun violence over the last decade. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether measures of firearm availability are related to rates of suicide, homicide, and unintentional firearm deaths among women in the United...
OBJECTIVE: to determine the association between firearm availability and female homicide victimization among high-income countries. METHODS: Data were assembled for the most recent available year (1994-1999) from the official reports of the ministries of health for...
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