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Firearms and Crime StatisticsSummary findings | BJS publications | Also by BJS staff | Related sites Summary findingsVictimization
Reported Crime
Crimes committed with firearms, 1973-2004 Injury
Offenders
BJS PublicationsThis list is in order of the most recent publication first. Additional titles are listed on other topical pages and a comprehensive list is contained on the BJS publications page. To see a full abstract of a publication with links to electronic versions of the publication, click on the title below. Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2004, 10/05. Describes background checks for firearm transfers conducted in 2004. NCJ 210117
Survey of State Procedures Related to Firearm Sales, Midyear 2004, 8/05. Provides an overview of the firearm check procedures in each of the States and their interaction with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) operated by the FBI. NCJ 209288
Survey of State Records Included in Presale Background Checks: Mental Health Records, Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Records, and Restraining Orders, 2003, 8/04. Examines the quality and accessibility of certain criminal and noncriminal records when States conduct a firearm presale background check. NCJ 206042 Weapon Use and Violent Crime, 1993-2001, 9/03. Discusses the nature and prevalence of violent crime by armed offenders, and the consequences to the victims, age 12 or older, from 1993 through 2001. NCJ 194820 Firearm Use by Offenders, 11/01. 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. NCJ 189369. Firearm Injury and Death from Crime, 1993-97 10/00 Reports on the incidence of fatal and nonfatal firearm injuries that result from crime. Most of the data presented are from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vital Statistics and the Firearms Injury Surveillance Study which collects data on injuries treated in hospital emergency departments. NCJ 182993 Federal Firearm Offenders 1992-98: With Preliminary Data for 1999, 6/00. Describes trends associated with the prosecution of firearm offenders in U.S. district courts between 1992 and 1999. NCJ 180795
Presale Handgun Checks, the Brady
Interim Period, 1994-98, 6/99. Provides a national estimate
of the number of presale background checks conducted in connection with
proposed firearm purchases, the number and percent of rejections, and
the basis for the rejections. NCJ 175034 (Data on this subject after the
Brady interim period are in Background
Checks of Firearm Transfers, 1999)
Firearm Injury from Crime: Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice, 4/96. Reports available statistical information from a number of sources on fatal and nonfatal firearm injury that results from crime. NCJ 160093 Weapons Offenses and Offenders: Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice-- Selected Findings, 11/95. Presents data on how the criminal and juvenile justice systems deal with weapons offenses (violation of statutes or regulations that control deadly weapons) and offenders from arrest through incarceration. NCJ 155284 Guns Used in Crime: Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice-- Selected Findings, 7/95. Provides information from several sources about the guns used by criminals. NCJ 148201 Federal Firearms-Related Offenses: Federal Offenses and Offenders, 7/95. Notes the association between firearms involvement and an increased severity of sentence as well as a more extensive criminal history for Federal prisoners. NCJ 148950 Guns and Crime: Handgun Victimization, Firearm Self-Defense, and Firearm Theft, 5/94. Provides estimates of the extent of handgun crime in the United States through 1992, as well as estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey of thefts of firearms and the extent of firearm use for self-defense. NCJ 147003
Firearms and Crimes of Violence, 2/94. This report summarizes
selected findings on trends in firearm use in serious violent crime, based
on FBI data on homicide, BJS data on victimization and inmate firearm
use, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data on firearm ownership
by high school students. NCJ 146844 Also by BJS staffDeFrances, Carol J. and Steven K. Smith, "Federal-State relations in gun control: The 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 24, Summer 1994, pp. 69-82. Related sites From BJS:
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