Research on Firearms Violence

Recent Work

“Building National and Cross-Border Illicit Firearms Information Management and Analysis Capacity,” presentation for Technical Consultants on the United Nations Secretary General’s Report on recent developments in weapon marking, record-keeping and tracing technology, November 19, 2013, UN Headquarters, New York.

“Interpreting the Empirical Evidence on Illegal Gun Market Dynamics.” (Braga, Anthony A., Garen J. Wintemute, Glenn L. Pierce, Philip J. Cook, and Greg Ridgeway). Journal of Urban Health, June 2012.

“New Approaches to Understanding and Identifying Illegal Firearms Markets and the Impact of State Laws on Controlling Trafficking: Final Report Findings” , (Glenn Pierce, Anthony Braga, Garen Wintemute), US National Institute of Justice Annual Meeting, Washington DC, June 18-21, 2012. Also, “New Approaches to Identifying Secondary Market Sources of Illegal Firearms,” National Institute of Justice ($205,891 grant), July 2007 through June 2012.

“Intervening in gun markets: an experiment to assess the impact of targeted gun-law messaging” (with Greg Ridgeway, Anthony A. Braga, George Tita and Glenn Pierce), Journal of Experimental Criminology: Volume 7, Issue 1 (2011), pages 103-109.

“Understanding Illegal Firearms Markets In Los Angeles: Developing Information Resources, Analytic Capacity, and Interventions” (Greg Ridgeway, Glenn Pierce, Anthony A. Braga, George Tita, Garen Wintemute and Wendell Roberts) June 2007, RAND Corporation, Final Report to the National of Justice.