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- Firearm Facts
- Firearms and Crime
Statistics (links to many reports)
- "Death rates for firearm-related
injuries according to sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age, 1920-2002"
Online:
Health, United States: 2004,
Table 47
Print: DOCS/US HE
20.7042/6:2004 page 200
- Firearm Use by Offenders
(2001). Describes firearm use of State and
Federal prison inmates including types of firearms used, characteristics
of inmates using firearms, why and where inmates used their firearms,
and where they obtained their firearms.
- Firearm Injury and Death
from Crime, 1993-97 (2000)
PDF-8 pages
- ATF Statistics
- "Gun Deaths in County Rose 9%,
Survey Says: Violence: A firearm control group compared the year 2000 to
1999: Police blame gangs." [Include statistics]. Los Angeles Times,
Friday, December 7, 2001. Section B, page 4.
- "State Handgun Sales Head for a Record
Low; Firearms: Figures show a decline for the year so far despite a
surge in purchases since Sept. 11." Los Angeles Times, Monday,
November 12, 2001, Part 2, Page 6.
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Gun
Deaths Among Children and Teens Drop Sharply (2000)
- Surveillance for Fatal
and Nonfatal Firearm-Related Injuries--United States, 1993-1998 (2001)
Online:
HTML
Print: DOCS/US
HE 20.7009/2-3:50/3
- Firearm Related Injuries
Affecting the Pediatric Population (2000)
- BB
and Pellet Gun-Related Injuries: U.S., June 1992-May 1994 (1995)
Print: DOCS/US HE
20.7009:44(49) p. 909
- Guns in America:
National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms (1997)
PDF-12 pages
- Illegal Firearms: Access
and Use by Arrestees (1997)
Online:
PDF-6 pages
Print:
CATALOG RECORD
- Pacific Center for Violence
Prevention
- Presale Firearm Checks
Online:
HTML
Print:
CATALOG RECORD
- Presale Handgun Checks
HTML |
CATALOG RECORD
- Rates of Homicide, Suicide, and Firearm-Related Death Among Children--26
Industrialized Countries
Print:
DOCS/US HE 20.7009:46(5), pp. 101-105
- Violence-Related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments
(1997)
CATALOG RECORD
- Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance--United States, 2003 - see section
titled "Behaviors That Contribute to Violence"
Additional
Statistics Sources
top
- Crime in the United
States [annual]
Online:
1995-current date available
online
Print:
CATALOG RECORD
- Sourcebook of Criminal
Justice Statistics [annual]
Online:
HTML
Print:
CATALOG RECORD
- Surveillance for Fatal
and Nonfatal Firearm-Related Injuries--United States, 1993-1998 (2001)
Print: DOCS/US HE
20.7009/2-3:50/3
Online:
HTML
- Statistical Abstract of
the United States [ANNUAL]
Online:
HTML
Print:
CATALOG RECORD
- International
Comparative Analysis of Injury Mortality
CATALOG RECORD
- "Risk Factors and
Effectiveness of Denying Handgun Purchase," JAMA, Vol. 285 No.8,
February 28, 2001 [PERIODICALS R15 .A48]
CATALOG RECORD FOR
JAMA
- Commerce in Firearms in
the United States (2000)
CATALOG RECORD
- Firearm and Motor
Vehicle Injury Mortality--Variations by State, Race, and Ethnicity:
United States, 1990-91.
CATALOG RECORD
- Firearm Injury From
Crime: Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice (1996)
CATALOG RECORD
- Firearm Mortality Among
Children, Youth, and Young Adults 1-34 Years of Age, Trends and Current
Status: United States, 1985-90
CATALOG RECORD
- Guns and Crime (1994)
CATALOG RECORD
- Country data: Rates of Homicide,
Suicide, and Firearm-Related Death Among Children--26 Industrialized
Countries
Print: DOCS/US HE
20.7009:46(5), pp. 101-105
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 Below
is a list of recent books in Pollak Library. To
find additional books, search the
Library Catalog
by the
subjects listed here.
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Firearms and
Violence: A Critical Review (2004)
Laws--evaluation:
First
Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing
Violence: Firearms Laws (2003)
Reducing
Gun Violence: The
St. Louis Consent-to-Search Program (2004)
Reducing
Gun Violence: Results from an Intervention in East Los Angeles (2003)
PDF-69
pages
Background Checks for Firearm
Transfer, 2002. 9/2003
Summary PDF Text
Weapon Use and Violent Crime,
1993-2001. 9/2003
Summary PDF Text
Source
of Firearms Used by Students in School-Associated Violent Deaths ---
United States, 1992--1999
(2003)
Laws--evaluation:
Evaluating
Gun Policy:
Effects on Crime and Violence (2003)
CATALOG RECORD
Guns,
Crime, and Punishment in America (2003)
CATALOG RECORD
Guns,
Freedom and Terrorism
(2003)
CATALOG RECORD
Outgunned: Up against the NRA:
The First Complete
Insider Account of
the Battle over Gun
Control (2003)
CATALOG RECORD
First
Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing
Violence: Firearms Laws (October 3, 2003)
Gun Use by Male Juveniles:
Research (2001)
PDF-12 pages
Reducing Gun Violence: The
Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire (2001)
CATALOG RECORD &
INTERNET LINK
Where'd They Get Their
Guns? An Analysis of the Firearms Used in High-Profile Shootings, 1963
to 2001 (2001)
Who Dies? A Look at
Firearms Death and Injury in America (2001)
Working With Victims of Gun Violence (2001)
Guns in the Family: Firearm
Storage Patterns in U.S. Homes with Children (2001)
HTML
Gun Control: Improving the
National Instant Criminal Background Check System
PDF-20 pages
Sentencing for the Possession or Use of Firearms During a Crime (1999)
PDF-16 pages
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Arming America:
The Origins of A National Gun Culture (2000)
CATALOG RECORD
Arrestees and Guns:
Monitoring the Illegal Firearms Market
PDF-4 pages
Background Checks for
Firearm Transfers, 1999
CATALOG RECORD &
INTERNET LINK
Changing Nature of Youth
Violence: Hearing CATALOG
RECORD
Laws:
Concealed Handgun Laws and
Public Safety (1998) [CRB Report]
PDF-25 pages
Federal Firearm
Offenders, 1992-98
CATALOG
RECORD & INTERNET LINK
Federal Firearms Regulations Reference Guide 2000 (U.S. Code and
C.F.R.)
Firearms and
Violence
Gun Acquisition and
Possession in Selected Juvenile Samples
CATALOG RECORD
Gun
Control Act of 1968 - Public Law 90-618 [text of P.L. 90-618]
The Gun Control Debate:
A Documentary History (1997)
CATALOG RECORD
Gun Control:
Implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
CATALOG RECORD
Gun Control: Options for
Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
CATALOG RECORD
Gun Control Study
(1999)
Gun Laws and the Need
for Self-Defense (1996)
CATALOG RECORD
Gun Laws, Gun Control,
and Gun Rights [Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Law]
Guns in Schools: A
Federal Role? Hearing (1997)
CATALOG RECORD
Guns Used in Crime
Illegal Firearms: Access
and Use By Arrestees (1997)
PDF-6 pages
Kids and Guns (2000)
PDF-12 pages
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NICS: National Instant
Criminal Background Check System (1998)
CATALOG RECORD
Predicting Criminal
Behavior Among Authorized Purchasers of Handguns
PDF-4 pages
Countries:
Rates of Homicide, Suicide,
and Firearm-Related Death Among Children--26 Industrialized Countries
(1997) Note: Go to
page 101 of the report
PDF-24 pages
Reducing Youth Gun
Violence: An Overview of Programs and Initiatives (1996)
CATALOG RECORD
Reducing Illegal
Firearms Trafficking: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned (2000)
CATALOG RECORD &
INTERNET LINK
The Right to Defend Your
Life, your Family, and Your Property (1996)
CATALOG RECORD
State laws:
State Laws and Published
Ordinances - Firearms
Strategies to Reduce Gun
Violence
PDF-2 pages
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CATALOG RECORD
State laws:
Survey of
State Procedures Related to Firearm Sales
To Provide for Increased
Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Criminals Possessing Firearms, and for
Other Purposes: Report Together with Dissenting Views (1997)
CATALOG RECORD
Violence-Related Injuries
Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments
To find articles, search Pollak Library's subscription databases. The links
below will take you to a list of relevant databases.
Databases--Statistics
Databases--Pro & Co/Current Issues
Databases--Scholarly Journals
Databases--Newspapers
Databases--Government Sources
CQ Researcher
issues of special note:
- "Gun Control Debate,"
November
11, 2004
- "High Impact Litigation,"
February 11,
2000
- "Gun Control Standoff,"
Dec. 19, 1997
Articles
of note:
First
Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing
Violence: Firearms Laws (MMWR, October 3, 2003)
"Gun Laws Effective in Deterring Criminals." Los Angeles Times,
Thursday, August 30, 2001, Part A, Part 1, Page 16.
- National Survey of State Laws (all 50 states)
(2003)
REFERENCE KF386
.N38 2003 (see page147-161)
CATALOG RECORD
.
- Reducing
Gun Violence: Results from an Intervention in East Los Angeles (2003)
[RAND]
PDF-69 pages
.
- "Gun,
Stem Cell Bills Signed: Gov. Davis approves measures to
make semiautomatic pistols safer and advance research on serious
diseases," Los Angeles
Times, Thursday, September 25, 2003, Part 2 Page 1.
.
- California Firearms
Laws, 2003
PDF-68
pages |
CATALOG RECORD
Summaries of laws regarding prohibited firearms,
persons ineligible to possess firearms, deadly force, concealed weapons,
firearms sales, safety, and more.
.
- "State's Children Facing Fewer
Risks, Study Says: Safety: Annual survey reports declines in
child abuse, gun injuries and teen births. School performance remains a
cause for concern," Los Angeles Times, Wednesday,
November 28, 2001, Home Edition, Part 2 Page 3.
This article summarizes findings from the California Report Card 2001
providing discussion and statistics (Excerpt: "The number of gun injuries decreased
from 415 in 1997 to 282 in 1999, while 113 gun deaths were recorded in
1999 compared with 145 in 1997.")
.
"Gun Deaths in County Rose 9%,
Survey Says: Violence: A firearm control group compared the year 2000 to
1999: Police blame gangs." [Includes statistics]. Los Angeles Times,
Friday, December 7, 2001. Section B, page 4.
.
- Attorney General [of
California] Position on the Second Amendment to the United States
Constitution (2007)
- Concealed Handgun Laws
and Public Safety [CRB Report] (1998)
PDF-5 pages
- California Firearms
Legislation 1999
- Concealable Firearms
Charges in California [ANNUAL, 2000-]
CATALOG RECORD &
INTERNET LINK
- Firearm-Related Violence in
California
-
California Penal Code [Use your browser's
FIND command to
search for keyword firearms to quickly scroll to Section
12000]
- Firearm-Related Violence
in California: Incidence and Economic Costs (1994)
CATALOG RECORD
- The Right to Defend Your
Life, Your Family and Your Property (1996) CATALOG
RECORD
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