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The Connecticut Violent Mortality Dashboard is an interactive mapping dashboard that allows users to visualize Connecticut’s violent deaths geographically and by select demographic characteristics. Violent deaths are defined as deaths that were deemed to be either a homicide or a suicide. The motivation for this project is to more fully and dynamically display Connecticut’s violent deaths in hopes of encouraging and measuring interventions and solutions.

Data from this project come from the Connecticut State Office of Vital Records and were requested using the Connecticut Department of Public Health’s (DPH) Data Request Form for Non-Confidential Data. Data is currently available for 2020-2024. Additional information about Connecticut’s Violent Deaths and be found at The Connecticut Violent Death Reporting System website (CTVDRS).

This dashboard effort was led by Drs. Kerri Raissian and Jennifer Dineen (UConn ARMS). It was created by Dr. Peter Chen and Congcong Miao (UConn Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies). We thank them for their excellent partnership and technical skills.

The following brief provides an overview to the 2023 data available to the dashboard (briefs with other years of data will soon be released). For more information, please reach out to arms@uconn.edu.