CRJ 480: Violent Crime: Websites

Gun control: states' laws and requirements for concealed carry permits vary across the nation : report to congressional requesters - U.S. Govt. Accountability Office

Gun control: sharing promising practices and assessing incentives could better position Justice to assist states in providing records for background checks : report to congressional requesters - U.S. Govt. Accountability Office

The Center for Disease Control's Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System.

From the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

"The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program of the FBI collects supplementary homicide data that provides information regarding the age, sex, and race of the murder victim and offender; the type of weapon used; the relationship of the victim to the offender; and the circumstance surrounding the incident."

"These rankings, however, are merely a quick choice made by the data user; they provide no insight into the many variables that mold the crime in a particular town, city, county, state, region, or other jurisdiction....."

Television and Growing Up: The Impact of Televised Violence. Report to the Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service

"Ten Years of Scientific Progress and Implications for the Eighties."

Media Violence identified as risk factor.

" This report is presented in response to 2007 House Resolution No. 94, which directed the Joint State Government Commission to do a study to investigate the effects of violent interactive video games (VIVGs) on the children of this Commonwealth, in the context of all other media forms they are exposed to, under the guidance of a task force of advisors."

Chapter 4 -- Risk Factors for Youth Violence

Statement on Children And TV Violence

"Violence in the Media — Psychologists Study TV and Video Game Violence for Potential Harmful Effects"

Official policy statements on Media Violence, and Impact of Music, Music Lyrics and Music Videos on Children and Youth.

The Impact of Entertainment Violence on Children, Congressional Public Health Summit, July 26, 2000