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 1,000 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
The Denver Accord Part 7: Reduce the Presence of Firearms in Public Places
The Denver Accord: A Comprehensive Plan To Reduce Gun Violence Presented by GVPedia The Denver Accord is a comprehensive gun violence prevention platform, led by GVPedia and supported by more than 40 organizations nationally, designed to guide policymakers’...
The Denver Accord Part 6: Strengthen and Enforce Existing Gun Laws
The Denver Accord: A Comprehensive Plan To Reduce Gun Violence Presented by GVPedia The Denver Accord is a comprehensive gun violence prevention platform, led by GVPedia and supported by more than 40 organizations nationally, designed to guide policymakers’...
The Denver Accord Part 5: Reduce Firearm Lethality
The Denver Accord: A Comprehensive Plan To Reduce Gun Violence Presented by GVPedia The Denver Accord is a comprehensive gun violence prevention platform, led by GVPedia and supported by more than 40 organizations nationally, designed to guide policymakers’...
Recent Studies
Firearm Ownership and Capability for Suicide in Post-Deployment National Guard Service Members
The authors wish to acknowledge the time and effort put forth by the service member respondents and the significant contributions of Michelle M. Cornette, PhD, and other study team members at the Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI. This work was supported in...
Deadly Force or Not? Visual and Cognitive Interpretation of Rifles and BB Guns in Crime-Scene Context
Although handguns still predominate in gun crimes, rifles are increasingly employed by perpetrators. Little is known about how rifles are visually and cognitively interpreted, or about the degree to which actual rifles can be distinguished from less-lethal or...
Firearm Ownership and Violent Crime in the U.S.: An Ecologic Study
Introduction Although some view the ownership of firearms as a deterrent to crime, the relationship between population-level firearm ownership rates and violent criminal perpetration is unclear. The purpose of this study is to test the association between state-level...