The Victimology of Shootings in Boston
This article draws from a dataset provided by Boston PD, of incident reports concerning shootings in Boston between January 2015 and January 2024. The dataset focuses on the victimology (the age, gender, ethnicity etc.) of those shot and doesn’t note what the actual incident was. However, looking at and using other datasets provided by the BPD, these shootings are likely to be the result of assaults, verbal disputes and incidents taking place in private dwellings/homes etc. Out of all the shootings in Boston, only around 0.7% involve violent offenses such as robberies – this doesn’t mean that firearms weren’t present...