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  1. Homicides by firearm in the U.S. 2006-2023

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    Updated Jun 2, 2025
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    Statista Research Department (2025). Homicides by firearm in the U.S. 2006-2023 [Dataset]. https://www.ai-chatbox.pro/?_=%2Fstudy%2F12811%2Ffirearms-in-the-united-states--statista-dossier%2F%23XgboD02vawLbpWJjSPEePEUG%2FVFd%2Bik%3D
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    United States
    Description

    In 2023, 76.37 percent of homicides were committed by firearm in the United States, compared to 85.7 percent in 2021. This figure has been increasing since 2014, when 63.6 percent of homicides were committed by firearm. Firearms in the United States Firearms in the United States have become a large part of American culture. The Second Amendment of the Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. This amendment has been cited as a reason why gun control laws should not become stricter. However, many Americans are in favor of stricter gun control laws due to the increase of shootings in the country. Handguns were the most frequently used weapon used on murder victims in 2020, and overall, the United States was the country with the highest rate of civilian-owned firearms. Who owns firearms? Firearms are more popular in certain parts of the United States than others. Texas was the state with the highest number of registered weapons in 2021, with Florida, Virginia, California, and Pennsylvania rounding out the top five. Firearm laws vary from state to state, which means it is easier to obtain a firearm in some states than in others. Gun owners in the United States are typically white, and men are more likely to personally own a gun than women.

  2. Gun homicide rate U.S. 2022, by race and age

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    Updated Jun 23, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Gun homicide rate U.S. 2022, by race and age [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1466060/gun-homicide-rate-by-race-and-age-us/
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    Time period covered
    2022
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    In the United States, Black people have higher rates of gun homicide than White people across all age groups. As of 2022, gun homicide rates were highest among Black people aged between 15 and 24 years, at ***** gun homicides per 100,000 of the population. In comparison, there were only **** gun homicides per 100,000 of the White population within this age range. However, the risk for gun homicide was greatest among all adolescents and adults between the ages of 15 to 44 in that year. The impact of guns on young Americans In the last few years, firearms have become the leading cause of death for American children and teenagers aged one to 19 years old, accounting for more deaths than car crashes and diseases. School shootings also remain on the rise recently, with the U.S. recording ** times as many school shootings than other high-income nations from 2009 to 2018. Black students in particular experience a disproportionately high number of school shootings relative to their population, and K-12 teachers at schools made up mostly of students of color are more likely to report feeling afraid that they or their students would be a victim of attack or harm. The right to bear arms Despite increasingly high rates of gun-related violence, gun ownership remains a significant part of American culture, largely due to the fact that the right to bear arms is written into the U.S. Constitution. Although firearms are the most common murder weapon used in the U.S., accounting for approximately ****** homicides in 2022, almost **** of American households have at least one firearm in their possession. Consequently, it is evident that firearms remain easily accessible nationwide, even though gun laws may vary from state to state. However, the topic of gun control still causes political controversy, as the majority of Republicans agree that it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, while Democrats are more inclined to believe that it is more important to limit gun ownership.

  3. Gun violence rate U.S. 2025, by state

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    Updated Jun 23, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Gun violence rate U.S. 2025, by state [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1380025/us-gun-violence-rate-by-state/
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    Jun 23, 2025
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    Time period covered
    2025
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    In recent years, gun violence in the United States has become an alarmingly common occurrence. From 2016, there has been over ****** homicides by firearm in the U.S. each year and firearms have been found to make up the majority of murder weapons in the country by far, demonstrating increasing rates of gun violence occurring throughout the nation. As of 2025, Mississippi was the state with the highest gun violence rate per 100,000 residents in the United States, at **** percent, followed by Louisiana, at **** percent. In comparison, Massachusetts had a gun violence rate of *** percent, the lowest out of all the states. The importance of gun laws Gun laws in the United States vary from state to state, which has been found to affect the differing rates of gun violence throughout the country. Fewer people die by gun violence in states where gun safety laws have been passed, while gun violence rates remain high in states where gun usage is easily permitted and even encouraged. In addition, some states suffer from high rates of gun violence despite having strong gun safety laws due to gun trafficking, as traffickers can distribute firearms illegally past state lines. The right to bear arms Despite evidence from other countries demonstrating that strict gun control measures reduce rates of gun violence, the United States has remained reluctant to enact gun control laws. This can largely be attributed to the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which states that citizens have the right to bear arms. Consequently, gun control has become a highly partisan issue in the U.S., with ** percent of Democrats believing that it was more important to limit gun ownership while ** percent of Republicans felt that it was more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns.

  4. Number of homicides by firearm in the U.S. 2006-2023

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    Updated Nov 12, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Number of homicides by firearm in the U.S. 2006-2023 [Dataset]. https://www.ai-chatbox.pro/?_=%2Fstatistics%2F249803%2Fnumber-of-homicides-by-firearm-in-the-united-states%2F%23XgboD02vawLZsmJjSPEePEUG%2FVFd%2Bik%3D
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    United States
    Description

    In 2023, 13,529 recorded murders in the United States were committed by firearm. This is a decrease from the previous year, when 12,244 homicides were committed with a firearm in the country. However, figures may not accurately reflect the total number of homicides, as not all law enforcement agencies in the U.S. submitted homicide data.

  5. U.S. gun laws 2024, by state

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    Updated Jun 23, 2025
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    Statista (2025). U.S. gun laws 2024, by state [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1381099/us-gun-laws-by-state/
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    Jun 23, 2025
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    Time period covered
    2024
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    In the United States, gun laws vary from one state to the next; whether residents need a permit or a background check to purchase a firearm, whether residents must undergo firearm training before making this purchase, and whether residents can openly carry their guns in public is dependent upon state legislation. As of 2024, ** U.S. states required background checks and/or permits for the purchase of a handgun. A further ** states had regulations on openly carrying firearms in public, however, only California, Connecticut, Florida, and Illinois had completely prohibited open carry for all firearms. In comparison, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York prohibited open carry for handguns but either did not have regulations in place or required a permit for other types of guns. A constitutional right The Second Amendment of the Constitution, which states that citizens have the right to bear arms, has made it difficult for any gun control legislation to be passed on a national level in the United States. As a result, gun control laws in the U.S. are state-based, and often differ based on political perspectives. States with strong gun laws in place, such as Massachusetts, generally experience less gun violence, however, some states with strong gun laws, such as Maryland, continue to face high rates of gun violence, which has largely been attributed to gun trafficking activity found throughout the nation. A culture of gun owners In comparison to other high-income countries with stricter gun control laws, the United States has the highest gun homicide rate at **** gun homicides per 100,000 residents. However, despite increasing evidence that easy access to firearms, whether legal or illegal, encourages higher rates of gun violence, the United States continues to foster an environment in which owning a firearm is seen as personal freedom. Almost **** of U.S. households have reported owning at least one firearm and ** percent of registered voters in the U.S. were found to believe that it was more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, compared to ** percent who said it was more important to limit gun ownership.

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    Social determinants of health in relation to firearm-related homicides in...

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    Daniel Kim (2023). Social determinants of health in relation to firearm-related homicides in the United States: A nationwide multilevel cross-sectional study [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002978
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    Jun 4, 2023
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    Daniel Kim
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    BackgroundGun violence has shortened the average life expectancy of Americans, and better knowledge about the root causes of gun violence is crucial to its prevention. While some empirical evidence exists regarding the impacts of social and economic factors on violence and firearm homicide rates, to the author’s knowledge, there has yet to be a comprehensive and comparative lagged, multilevel investigation of major social determinants of health in relation to firearm homicides and mass shootings.Methods and findingsThis study used negative binomial regression models and geolocated gun homicide incident data from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2015, to explore and compare the independent associations of key state-, county-, and neighborhood-level social determinants of health—social mobility, social capital, income inequality, racial and economic segregation, and social spending—with neighborhood firearm-related homicides and mass shootings in the United States, accounting for relevant state firearm laws and a variety of state, county, and neighborhood (census tract [CT]) characteristics. Latitude and longitude coordinates on firearm-related deaths were previously collected by the Gun Violence Archive, and then linked by the British newspaper The Guardian to CTs according to 2010 Census geographies. The study population consisted of all 74,134 CTs as defined for the 2010 Census in the 48 states of the contiguous US. The final sample spanned 70,579 CTs, containing an estimated 314,247,908 individuals, or 98% of the total US population in 2015. The analyses were based on 13,060 firearm-related deaths in 2015, with 11,244 non-mass shootings taking place in 8,673 CTs and 141 mass shootings occurring in 138 CTs. For area-level social determinants, lag periods of 3 to 17 years were examined based on existing theory, empirical evidence, and data availability. County-level institutional social capital (levels of trust in institutions), social mobility, income inequality, and public welfare spending exhibited robust relationships with CT-level gun homicide rates and the total numbers of combined non-mass and mass shooting homicide incidents and non-mass shooting homicide incidents alone. A 1–standard deviation (SD) increase in institutional social capital was linked to a 19% reduction in the homicide rate (incidence rate ratio [IRR] = 0.81, 95% CI 0.73–0.91, p

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    Quantifying underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths in United...

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    Justin M. Feldman; Sofia Gruskin; Brent A. Coull; Nancy Krieger (2023). Quantifying underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths in United States vital statistics and news-media-based data sources: A capture–recapture analysis [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002399
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    Jun 4, 2023
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    Justin M. Feldman; Sofia Gruskin; Brent A. Coull; Nancy Krieger
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    United States
    Description

    BackgroundPrior research suggests that United States governmental sources documenting the number of law-enforcement-related deaths (i.e., fatalities due to injuries inflicted by law enforcement officers) undercount these incidents. The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), administered by the federal government and based on state death certificate data, identifies such deaths by assigning them diagnostic codes corresponding to “legal intervention” in accordance with the International Classification of Diseases–10th Revision (ICD-10). Newer, nongovernmental databases track law-enforcement-related deaths by compiling news media reports and provide an opportunity to assess the magnitude and determinants of suspected NVSS underreporting. Our a priori hypotheses were that underreporting by the NVSS would exceed that by the news media sources, and that underreporting rates would be higher for decedents of color versus white, decedents in lower versus higher income counties, decedents killed by non-firearm (e.g., Taser) versus firearm mechanisms, and deaths recorded by a medical examiner versus coroner.Methods and findingsWe created a new US-wide dataset by matching cases reported in a nongovernmental, news-media-based dataset produced by the newspaper The Guardian, The Counted, to identifiable NVSS mortality records for 2015. We conducted 2 main analyses for this cross-sectional study: (1) an estimate of the total number of deaths and the proportion unreported by each source using capture–recapture analysis and (2) an assessment of correlates of underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths (demographic characteristics of the decedent, mechanism of death, death investigator type [medical examiner versus coroner], county median income, and county urbanicity) in the NVSS using multilevel logistic regression. We estimated that the total number of law-enforcement-related deaths in 2015 was 1,166 (95% CI: 1,153, 1,184). There were 599 deaths reported in The Counted only, 36 reported in the NVSS only, 487 reported in both lists, and an estimated 44 (95% CI: 31, 62) not reported in either source. The NVSS documented 44.9% (95% CI: 44.2%, 45.4%) of the total number of deaths, and The Counted documented 93.1% (95% CI: 91.7%, 94.2%). In a multivariable mixed-effects logistic model that controlled for all individual- and county-level covariates, decedents injured by non-firearm mechanisms had higher odds of underreporting in the NVSS than those injured by firearms (odds ratio [OR]: 68.2; 95% CI: 15.7, 297.5; p < 0.01), and underreporting was also more likely outside of the highest-income-quintile counties (OR for the lowest versus highest income quintile: 10.1; 95% CI: 2.4, 42.8; p < 0.01). There was no statistically significant difference in the odds of underreporting in the NVSS for deaths certified by coroners compared to medical examiners, and the odds of underreporting did not vary by race/ethnicity. One limitation of our analyses is that we were unable to examine the characteristics of cases that were unreported in The Counted.ConclusionsThe media-based source, The Counted, reported a considerably higher proportion of law-enforcement-related deaths than the NVSS, which failed to report a majority of these incidents. For the NVSS, rates of underreporting were higher in lower income counties and for decedents killed by non-firearm mechanisms. There was no evidence suggesting that underreporting varied by death investigator type (medical examiner versus coroner) or race/ethnicity.

  8. Deaths by firearm-related injuries in the U.S. 1970-2016 by gender

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    Updated Nov 7, 2019
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    Statista (2019). Deaths by firearm-related injuries in the U.S. 1970-2016 by gender [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/186951/deaths-by-firearm-related-injuries-in-the-us-by-gender-since-1970/
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    United States
    Description

    The death rate from firearm-related injuries in the United States reached 19.4 per 100,000 population among males in 2016. Females have a much smaller rate of firearm-related deaths than males, with the rate among males over five times that of females. The overall death rate from firearm-related injuries has risen in recent years after seeing a drop in the late 1990s.

    Homicides from firearms

    Homicides account for a large portion of firearm-related deaths. In 2017, there were almost 11,000 homicides by firearm in the United States. In fact, as of that time, homicides by firearm accounted for around 72.6 percent of all homicides in the U.S. Handguns are the most commonly used firearm for homicide.

    Gun ownership

    Firearms regulation, or gun control, remains a relevant and divisive issue in the U.S. However, the ownership of legal firearms is widespread. As of 2018, around 43 percent of households had at least one firearm, an increase from recent years. Unsurprisingly, just as men have a higher death rate from firearms, they also have a much higher firearm ownership rate.

  9. Gun Deaths in the United States (2012–2014)

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    Updated Jul 27, 2020
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    Ifabiyi Mayowa (2020). Gun Deaths in the United States (2012–2014) [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ifabiyimay/gun-deaths-in-the-united-states-20122014/data
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    Jul 27, 2020
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    Ifabiyi Mayowa
    Area covered
    United States
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    This dataset was created by Ifabiyi Mayowa

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  10. Gun ownership in the U.S. 1972-2023

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    Updated Jun 23, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Gun ownership in the U.S. 1972-2023 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/249740/percentage-of-households-in-the-united-states-owning-a-firearm/
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    United States
    Description

    The share of American households owning at least one firearm has remained relatively steady since 1972, hovering between ** percent and ** percent. In 2023, about ** percent of U.S. households had at least one gun in their possession. Additional information on firearms in the United States Firearms command a higher degree of cultural significance in the United States than any other country in the world. Since the inclusion of the right to bear arms in the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, firearms have held symbolic power beyond their already obvious material power. Despite many Americans being proud gun-owners, a large movement exists within the country in opposition to the freedom afforded to those in possession of these potentially deadly weapons. Those opposed to current gun regulation have sourced their anger from the large number of deaths due to firearms in the country, as well as the high frequency of gun violence apparent in comparison to other developed countries. Furthermore, the United States has fallen victim to a number of mass shootings in the last two decades, most of which have raised questions over the ease at which a person can obtain a firearm. Although this movement holds a significant position in the public political discourse of the United States, meaningful change regarding the legislation dictating the ownership of firearms has not occurred. Critics have pointed to the influence possessed by the National Rifle Association through their lobbying of public officials. The National Rifle Association also lobbies for the interests of firearm manufacturing in the United States, which has continued to rise since a fall in the early 2000s.

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    Social determinants and risk of firearm-related homicide at the CT level in...

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    Daniel Kim (2023). Social determinants and risk of firearm-related homicide at the CT level in the contiguous US, 2015. [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002978.t001
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    Contiguous United States, Connecticut, United States
    Description

    Social determinants and risk of firearm-related homicide at the CT level in the contiguous US, 2015.

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    Social determinants and the total number of mass shooting homicide incidents...

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    Daniel Kim (2023). Social determinants and the total number of mass shooting homicide incidents at the CT level in the contiguous US, 2015. [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002978.t004
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    Jun 8, 2023
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    Daniel Kim
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Contiguous United States, United States, Connecticut
    Description

    Social determinants and the total number of mass shooting homicide incidents at the CT level in the contiguous US, 2015.

  13. Number of firearm deaths in the U.S. 1990-2022

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    Updated Jun 23, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Number of firearm deaths in the U.S. 1990-2022 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/258913/number-of-firearm-deaths-in-the-united-states/
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    United States
    Description

    In 2022, there were ****** fatalities caused by injuries related to firearms in the United States, a slight decrease from the previous year. In 2021, there were ****** firearm deaths, the highest number of gun deaths ever recorded in the country. However, this figure has remained relatively high over the past 25 years, with ****** firearm deaths in 1990, and a slight dip in fatalities between 1999 and 2002. Firearms in the United States The right to own firearms in the United States is enshrined in the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and while this right may be seen as quintessentially American, the relationship between Americans and their firearms has become fraught in the last few years. The proliferation of mass shootings in the U.S. has brought the topic of gun control into the national spotlight, with support for banning assault-style weapons a particularly divisive issue among Americans. Gun control With a little less than **** of all Americans owning at least one firearm and the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world, it is easy to see how the idea of gun control is a political minefield in the U.S. However, public opinion has begun to shift over the past ten years, and a majority of Americans report that laws governing the sale of firearms should be stricter than they are now.

  14. Gun violence database

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    Updated Nov 27, 2016
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    Gun Violence Archive (2016). Gun violence database [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/gunviolencearchive/gun-violence-database/discussion
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    Gun Violence Archive
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    Context

    The Gun Violence Archive is an online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 2,000 media, law enforcement, government and commercial sources daily in an effort to provide near-real time data about the results of gun violence. GVA in an independent data collection and research group with no affiliation with any advocacy organization.

    Content

    This dataset includes files that separate gun violence incidents by category, including deaths and injuries of children and teens, and a collection of mass shootings.

    Inspiration

    • What has been the trend of gun violence in the past few years?
    • What states have the highest incidents per capita per year? How has this metric changed over time?
    • Are officer involved shootings on the rise? Where are they most concentrated? Do they correlate with the rates of accidental deaths and mass shootings?

    Acknowledgements

    This dataset is owned by the Gun Violence Archive, and can be accessed in its original form here.

  15. Murder in the U.S.: number of offenders 2023, by age

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    Updated Nov 7, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Murder in the U.S.: number of offenders 2023, by age [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/251884/murder-offenders-in-the-us-by-age/
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    Nov 7, 2024
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    Time period covered
    2023
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    3,013 murderers in the United States in 2023 were individuals between the ages of 20 and 24. In the same year, there were seven murderer offenders aged between one and four years. Murder rate in the United States Despite some feeling that violent crime in the United States is on the rise, perhaps due to sensationalized media coverage, the murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rate has declined steeply since 1990. The murder rate has risen some since 2014, but it is nowhere near its peak in 1991. Murder victims in the U.S. The vast majority of murders in the U.S. were committed with firearms, including handguns, rifles, shotguns, and other unidentified guns or firearms. This is generally attributed to the high rate of gun ownership in the United States, which makes guns more accessible than in other countries.

  16. Leading causes of death among children and teens aged 1-19 U.S. 2020-2021

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    Updated Jun 23, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Leading causes of death among children and teens aged 1-19 U.S. 2020-2021 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1384047/leading-causes-of-death-for-children-and-teens-us/
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    Jun 23, 2025
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
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    United States
    Description

    Over the last few years, gun violence in the United States has become an increasingly deadly public health crisis. In 2021, firearms were the leading cause of death for children and adolescents aged one to 19 years old for a second year in a row in the United States, with ***** deaths from firearms, which accounted for more deaths than car crashes and other diseases in that year. This is an increase from the previous year, when there were ***** deaths from firearms. Gun violence in the U.S. Along with a rise in gun-related deaths, the United States has been experiencing an overall increase in gun violence, including mass shootings, school shootings, and gun homicides. Not surprisingly, the United States has also reported in increase in gun sales, with the unit sales for firearms reaching a new high in recent years. A uniquely American problem Despite the rise of gun violence and gun-related deaths, guns remain easily accessible in the United States and gun control has become a divisive issue throughout the nation. However, gun control proponents often call attention to the uniquely American phenomenon of school shootings. Since 2018, the annual number of incidents involving firearms at K-12 schools in the U.S. reached over *** in each year, while similar incidents in other countries with strict gun laws are exceptionally rare.

  17. Murder victims by weapon used in the U.S 2023

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    Updated Nov 12, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Murder victims by weapon used in the U.S 2023 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/
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    Nov 12, 2024
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    2023
    Area covered
    United States
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    Handguns are by far the most common murder weapon used in the United States, accounting for 7,159 homicides in 2023. This is followed by firearms of an unstated type, with 5,295 cases in that year. Why do murders happen in the U.S.? While most of the time the circumstances of murders in the U.S. remain unknown, homicides due to narcotics come in as the second most common circumstance – making them more common than, for example, gang killings. Despite these gruesome facts, the violent crime rate has fallen significantly since 1990, and the United States is much safer than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Knife crime vs disease: Leading causes of death The death rate in the U.S. had hovered around the same level since 1990 until there was a large increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic in recent years. Heart disease, cancer, and accidents were the three leading causes of death in the country in 2022. The rate of death from heart disease is significantly higher than the homicide rate in the United States, at 167.2 deaths per 100,000 population compared to a 5.7 homicides per 100,000. Given just 1,562 murders were caused by knife crime, it is fair to say that heart disease is a far bigger killer in the U.S.

  18. Characteristics of law-enforcement-related deaths from The Counted matched...

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    Justin M. Feldman; Sofia Gruskin; Brent A. Coull; Nancy Krieger (2023). Characteristics of law-enforcement-related deaths from The Counted matched and unmatched to National Vital Statistics System mortality records using the National Death Index (US, 2015). [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002399.t003
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    Characteristics of law-enforcement-related deaths from The Counted matched and unmatched to National Vital Statistics System mortality records using the National Death Index (US, 2015).

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    Essay in Policy Evaluation

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    Timothy David Spilde (2025). Essay in Policy Evaluation [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.7274/29453351.v1
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    This dissertation studies the effectiveness of various policies focusing on examining experimental and nonexperimental data using various methodologies. The first chapter presents a novel dataset of the universe of municipal gun ordinances between 2008 and 2019 to estimate the effects of gun ordinances on firearm fatalities. To do so, I isolate plausibly exogenous variation in the passage of municipal firearm ordinances that result from county level weather conditions on the day of the National School Walkout. I find no discernible effect of ordinances on firearm deaths at the county level. These estimates are precisely zero, and I can rule out any effects larger than a 1% change from the mean number of firearm deaths. In further analyses of effects by victim subgroups defined by race, education, and age, I again do not detect any significant impact of ordinances on deaths. The first stage provides evidence that increased turnout for the 2018 National School Walkout led to more firearm ordinances being passed. Counties in states with punitive firearm preemption laws are much less likely to pass firearm ordinances.

    The second chapter conducts a randomized controlled trial of one such program. Participants randomly assigned to intensive, holistic, wrap-around services have 10 percentage points higher employment rates after one year compared with a control group offered only help with an immediate need (p=0.03). Most of this effect appears to persist after programming ends (p=0.13). However, we find limited evidence that intensive, holistic services affect areas beyond employment, even when other areas of life are participants' primary goals. We find some evidence that the program works by increasing hopefulness and agency among participants, which may be more useful in supporting labor force participation than in meeting other goals.

    The third chapter studies California’s 2017 minimum wage law, which implemented a higher wage floor for firms with at least 26 employees. Using establishment-year data from the Longitudinal Business Database, we estimate the law’s effect on firm size. Applying a standard TWFE difference-in-differences approach, we find that the policy reduced the likelihood that California firms have just over 26 employees. The statistical significance of the estimates is sensitive to the inclusion of county-level controls interacted with year effects. We present suggestive evidence that the law disincentivizes firms from increasing employment.

    Despite the diversity of topics, each chapter centers on evaluating how policy interventions shape economic and social outcomes. These papers are unified by their focus on real-world policies and programs—whether enacted by governments or nonprofit organizations. Across chapters, the aim is to understand how institutions can influence behaviors in ways that promote—or fail to promote—desired outcomes.

    The policy questions addressed span different domains: gun violence, labor markets, and social services. They also vary across levels of government and institutional actors—from municipal and state governments to community-based nonprofits. Yet they are united by the central concern of whether and how interventions succeed. Together, these findings highlight where policy can be a powerful tool—and where it may fall short—offering evidence to guide smarter policy design.

  20. Data from: Felonious Homicides of American Police Officers, 1977-1992

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    Department of Justice, Felonious Homicides of American Police Officers, 1977-1992 [Dataset]. https://datasets.ai/datasets/felonious-homicides-of-american-police-officers-1977-1992-25657
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    The study was a comprehensive analysis of felonious killings of officers. The purposes of the study were (1) to analyze the nature and circumstances of incidents of felonious police killings and (2) to analyze trends in the numbers and rates of killings across different types of agencies and to explain these differences. For Part 1, Incident-Level Data, an incident-level database was created to capture all incidents involving the death of a police officer from 1983 through 1992. Data on officers and incidents were collected from the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) data collection as coded by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. In addition to the UCR data, the Police Foundation also coded information from the LEOKA narratives that are not part of the computerized LEOKA database from the FBI. For Part 2, Agency-Level Data, the researchers created an agency-level database to research systematic differences among rates at which law enforcement officers had been feloniously killed from 1977 through 1992. The investigators focused on the 56 largest law enforcement agencies because of the availability of data for explanatory variables. Variables in Part 1 include year of killing, involvement of other officers, if the officer was killed with his/her own weapon, circumstances of the killing, location of fatal wounds, distance between officer and offender, if the victim was wearing body armor, if different officers were killed in the same incident, if the officer was in uniform, actions of the killer and of the officer at entry and final stage, if the killer was visible at first, if the officer thought the killer was a felon suspect, if the officer was shot at entry, and circumstances at anticipation, entry, and final stages. Demographic variables for Part 1 include victim's sex, age, race, type of assignment, rank, years of experience, agency, population group, and if the officer was working a security job. Part 2 contains variables describing the general municipal environment, such as whether the agency is located in the South, level of poverty according to a poverty index, population density, percent of population that was Hispanic or Black, and population aged 15-34 years old. Variables capturing the crime environment include the violent crime rate, property crime rate, and a gun-related crime index. Lastly, variables on the environment of the police agencies include violent and property crime arrests per 1,000 sworn officers, percentage of officers injured in assaults, and number of sworn officers.

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Statista Research Department (2025). Homicides by firearm in the U.S. 2006-2023 [Dataset]. https://www.ai-chatbox.pro/?_=%2Fstudy%2F12811%2Ffirearms-in-the-united-states--statista-dossier%2F%23XgboD02vawLbpWJjSPEePEUG%2FVFd%2Bik%3D
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Homicides by firearm in the U.S. 2006-2023

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United States
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In 2023, 76.37 percent of homicides were committed by firearm in the United States, compared to 85.7 percent in 2021. This figure has been increasing since 2014, when 63.6 percent of homicides were committed by firearm. Firearms in the United States Firearms in the United States have become a large part of American culture. The Second Amendment of the Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. This amendment has been cited as a reason why gun control laws should not become stricter. However, many Americans are in favor of stricter gun control laws due to the increase of shootings in the country. Handguns were the most frequently used weapon used on murder victims in 2020, and overall, the United States was the country with the highest rate of civilian-owned firearms. Who owns firearms? Firearms are more popular in certain parts of the United States than others. Texas was the state with the highest number of registered weapons in 2021, with Florida, Virginia, California, and Pennsylvania rounding out the top five. Firearm laws vary from state to state, which means it is easier to obtain a firearm in some states than in others. Gun owners in the United States are typically white, and men are more likely to personally own a gun than women.

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