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Reducing firearm violence: a research agenda

¹ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
² International Association of Chiefs of Police, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
³ American Association of Sociology, Washington DC, USA
⁴ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
⁵ Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
⁶ Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
⁷ John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA
⁸ State University of New York, Courtland, New York, USA
⁹ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Correspondence to:
Ms Janet Weiner
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 3641 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6218, USA;weinerja{at}mail.med.upenn.edu

ABSTRACT
In the United States, firearms are involved in tens of thousands of deaths and injuries each year. The magnitude of this problem prompted the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to issue a report in 2004 detailing the strengths and limitations of existing research on the relationship between firearms and violence. In response, a multidisciplinary group of experts in the field of firearms and violence formed the National Research Collaborative on Firearm Violence. The Collaborative met for 2 days in June 2005 to (1) critically review the main findings of the NAS report and (2) define a research agenda that could fill research and data gaps and inform policy that reduces gun-related crime, deaths and injuries. This article summarizes the Collaborative’s conclusions and identifies priorities for research and funding.

Abbreviations: CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation; NAS, National Academy of Sciences; NIBRS, National Incident-Based Reporting System