- Description
There is no standard definition of what constitutes a mass shooting. Media outlets, academic researchers, and law enforcement agencies frequently use different definitions when discussing mass shootings, leading to different assessments of how frequently mass shootings occur and whether they are more common now than they were a decade or two ago.
- Published by
- RAND Corporation
- Issue areas
- Crime and Safety
- Document type
- Interactive Resource
- Literature/Research Review
- Geography
- North America / United States
- Copyright
- Copyright 1994-2018 RAND Corporation.
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- Title
- Mass Shootings: Definitions and Trends
- Publication date
- 2018-01-01
- Publication year
- 2018
- Authors
- Rosanna Smart
- Copyright holder(s)
- RAND Corporation
- Geographical focus
- North America / United States
- Document type
- Interactive Resource, Literature/Research Review
- URL
- https://gunviolence.issuelab.org/resource/mass-shootings-definitions-and-trends.html
- Resource provided by
- Issue Lab
