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Firearm Injury from Crime: Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice

This document reports available statistical information on fatal and nonfatal firearm injury that results from crime from a number of sources. Findings include -- Of the victims of nonfatal violent crime who faced an assailant armed with a firearm, 3% suffered gunshot wounds. An estimated 57,500 nonfatal gunshot wounds from assaults were treated in hospital emergency departments from June 1992 through May 1993. Over half of these victims were black males; a quarter were black males age 15-24. The firearm injury rate for police officers declined in the early 1980s and began climbing again after 1987, but has not exceeded the peak reached in 1980-81.

Nonfatal and Fatal Firearm-Related Injuries -- United States, 1993-1997

Report on decline in nonfatal and fatal firearm-related injury rates in the U.S. population from 1993 through 1997 from the Centers for Disease Control, Office of Statistics and Programming and Div of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Office of Statistics and Programming and Div of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

Rates of Homicide, Suicide, and Firearm-Related Death Among Children -- 26 Industrialized Countries

To compare patterns and the impact of violent deaths among children in the United States and other industrialized countries, the Centers for Disease Control analyzed data on childhood homicide, suicide, and firearm-related death in the United States and 25 other industrialized countries for the most recent year for which data were available in each country (4). This report presents the findings of this analysis, which indicate that the United States has the highest rates of childhood homicide, suicide, and firearm-related death among industrialized countries.

Weapon Injuries Declining in Massachusetts

Cases of violence-related gunshot wounds dropped 41% from 1994 to 1996 according to reports filed by hospital emergency departments with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, dropping from 662 cases treated in 1994 to 393 in 1996.