Violence Prevention Project Research

The Violence Prevention Project Research Center creates comprehensive violent crime datasets to support and inform journalists, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and the public. Use our interactive dashboards to explore the data or download the full datasets for free to conduct your own analysis.

K-12 School Homicides

Trends, locations, circumstances, and characteristics of all homicides at K-12 schools since 2000.

K-12 school homicides

Higher Education Homicides

Trends, locations, circumstances, and characteristics of all homicides on college and university campuses since 2000.

Higher ed homicides

House of Worship Homicides

Trends, locations, circumstances, and characteristics of all homicides at houses of worship since 2000.

House of worship homicides

Mass Shooters

Trends, locations, circumstances, and characteristics of all U.S. mass public shootings since 1966.

Mass shooters

Firearms in Mass Shootings

Characteristics of the firearms used in mass shootings, including how they were obtained.

Firearms

Mass Shootings are Preventable

Data-driven recommendations for preventing mass shootings

Perspectives on Mass Shootings

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Database access

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