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Suicide in Arizona
The Arizona Violent Death Reporting System (AZ-VDRS) collects violent death data from multiple sources: death certificates issued by the Arizona Department of Health Services, police reports obtained from investigating agencies, and autopsy reports...Read more
Homicides in Arizona
The Arizona Violent Death Reporting System (AZ-VDRS) collects violent death data from multiple sources: death certificates issued by the Arizona Department of Health Services, police reports obtained from investigating agencies, and autopsy reports...Read more
Suicides Involving Veterans
The Arizona Violent Death Reporting System (AZ-VDRS) collects violent death data from multiple sources: death certificates issued by the Arizona Department of Health Services, police reports obtained from investigating agencies, and autopsy reports...Read more
2020 Gun Symposium
Presentation slides detailing the findings from the Arizona Violent Death Reporting System (AZ-VDRS), as presented at the AZ-VDRS Gun Symposium on January 29, 2020. This presentation summarizes the report by the Morrison Institute for Public Policy...Read more
AZ-VDRS Summary Reports
These reports represet annualized summaries, program evaluations, and other topics related to the overall performance of the AZ-VDRS.Read more
Jurisdictional Reports
Jurisdictional reports are created using an automated query with a statistical analysis software package and may appear with some formatting or typos in the text. They are produced for those jurisdictions in Arizona with a minimum of 30 cases in the...Read more
The effects of procedural injustice on the use of violence against police by Occupy Wall Street protesters
While a large, cross-disciplinary literature exists on crowd dynamics and protester behavior, few studies have tested the effects of perceived injustice on protester behavior. Based on data from a survey of Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York...Read more
Attitudes towards the Use of Violence against Police among Occupy Wall Street Protesters
Although many social movement participants claim to embrace non-violent civil disobedience strategies, protesters tend to have heterogeneous views on the morality and utility of engaging in violence. In particular, protesters sometimes view violence...Read more
Influence of Risk and Protective Factors on School-aged Youth Involvement with Gangs, Guns, and Delinquency: Findings from the El Salvador Youth Survey
Youth participation in problem behavior, including crime and violence, especially in gang-related violence, has become a global concern over the past several years. The research that is the basis for this report was designed to provide policymakers...Read more