Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150100619

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150100619

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding and preventing gun violence: A qualitative study. Gun violence causes significant harm across Australian communities. Excluding sexual assault, firearms feature in nearly one in 10 violent crimes. The annual costs of gun violence run into tens of millions of dollars. This project aims to make an original qualitative contribution to understanding and preventing gun violence in three contexts: drug dealing/trafficking, other organised crime activity, and armed robbery. The proposed research would be the first study nationally - and one of the very few internationally - to interview convicted gun crime users about the acquisition and use of firearms in criminal life. Project results are expected to have direct implications for reducing the impact of gun violence in Australia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 16-04-2015

End Date: 31-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $234,300.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Crime Policy | Criminology | Causes and Prevention of Crime

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Injury Control | Crime Prevention | Law Enforcement |

Other Keywords

Causes and Prevention of Crime | Crime Policy | Crime Prevention | Criminology | Injury Control | Law Enforcement

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