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 Firearm Legislation and Firearm Violence Across Space and Time: A Comprehensive Data Collection Effort
Award Information
Awardee
              The Ohio State University
Award #
              2014-R2-CX-0004
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Columbus, OH
Awardee County
              Franklin
Congressional District
              3
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2014
Total funding (to date)
              $39,992
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 14 Data Resources Program 2014: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2014, $39,992)
An increasing social awareness around the issue of firearm legislation and gun violence is brewing in America. Powerful groups on both sides of a contentious debate call for either more or less restrictive firearm legislation to combat firearm-related violence. Unfortunately, little research has demonstrated whether or how firearm legislation impacts violence across spatial context and time. This is largely due to a lack of data that allows for longitudinal analysis of a broad spectrum of firearm legislation on firearm violence over time and space. To understand whether and under what conditions firearm leg islation reduces firearm violence requires a new data effort, one that is unprecedented in scope. Our proposed research will produce a comprehensive dataset capturing the presence and type of state-level firearm legislation from 1970 to 2010, in U.S. states as well as county-level measures of firearm-related violence and other theoretically motived county-level characteristics.  This will allow for a comprehensive examination of how state firearm legislation affects firearm violence at the county level (with counties nested within states) with potential attention to identification of county-level factors that moderate the relationship between state-level firearm legislation and county-level rates of firearm related violence. Our research will produce new data and knowledge that answers a timely demand for empirically driven policy recommendations addressing firearm violence.
Furthermore, our final data product will provide a comprehensive source of longitudinal data on firearms leg islation, firearms violence, and a variety of county characteristics that will facilitate further research by other investigators via archival with NACJD. ca/ncf



  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Determinants of Variation in State Concealed Carry Laws, 1970-2016
                  Sharing the Monopoly on Violence? Shall-Issue Concealed Handgun License Laws and Responsibilization
                  Big Guns or Big Talk? How the National Rifle Association Matters for Conceal Carry Weapons Laws
                  Firearm Legislation and Firearm Violence Across Space and Time: A Comprehensive Data Collection Effort

  
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