- Resisting crime: The effects of victim action on the outcomes of crimes
- Author:
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Tark J / Kleck G
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Criminology
- Topics:
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Self-defense Gun Use/Deterrence
- Keywords:
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CRIME, Injury, Victim, resistance
The authors examined the effect of victim self-protection during criminal incidents on the frequency of three outcomes: property loss, victim injury, overall serious injury, using data from the National...
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- Measures of Gun Ownership Levels for Macro-Level Crime and Violence Research
- Author:
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Kleck G
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
- Topics:
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Social Science, Suicide, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Ownership, measure, proxy
The author evaluates the validity of several proxy measures that have been suggested as indicators of gun prevalence, using city, state, cross-national, and time series data. Most proposed measures have...
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