Healthy New Jersey

Center for Health Statistics and Informatics

Violent Death Reporting System (NJVDRS)

The New Jersey Violent Death Reporting System (NJVDRS) was established and is maintained at the NJDOH Center for Health Statistics and Informatics (CHS) through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This surveillance system links data from multiple sources into a single standardized record of a violent death.

A violent death is defined as a death that results from the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or a group or community.  NJVDRS includes:

  • homicides
  • suicides
  • deaths resulting from legal intervention (i.e., when individuals are killed by law enforcement personnel in the line of duty)
  • unintentional firearm injury deaths
  • injury deaths of undetermined intent


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