+ Shooting Down the 'More Guns, Less Crime' Hypothesis
- Author:
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Ayres, Ian / Donohue Iii, John J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Stanford Law Review
- Topics:
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Crime, Criminology, Gun Carrying, Legislation and Policy, Ownership, Prevention
- Keywords:
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CRIME, gun, law, methodology, regression model
The authors examine the “more guns, less crime” hypothesis and argue that the evidence in favor of the hypothesis is limited, sporadic, and extraordinarily fragile; changes in methodological techniques...
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+ Shall-issue policy and criminal activity among applicants for permits to carry concealed firearms
- Author:
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Romero, M. / Wintemute, G. / Wright, M. / Parham, C.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Topics:
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Crime, Criminology, Gun Carrying, Ownership, State
- Keywords:
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concealed firearm, criminal activity, shall-issue
The authors examine the effects of a shall-issue policy in the Sacramento County town of Isleton for permits to carry concealed firearms in public. They compared the incidence of criminal activity of...
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+ Association between handgun purchase and mortality from firearm injury
- Author:
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Grassel, K. M. / Wintemute, G. J. / Wright, M. A. / Romero, M. P.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Topics:
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Criminology, Homicide, Ownership, Public Health, Suicide
- Keywords:
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California, case-control, data, firearm death, firearm retailer
The authors examined the association between violent or firearm death and previous handgun purchase, in this case-control study of 213,466 Californians ages 21 and older who died in 1998, using data from...
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+ Right-to-carry concealed handguns and violent crime: crime control through gun control?
- Author:
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Kovandzic, Tomislav V. / Marvell, Thomas B.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Criminology & Public Policy
- Topics:
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Criminology, Gun Carrying, Legislation and Policy, Ownership, State
- Keywords:
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concealed carry, panel-date, right to carry
The authors evaluated Florida’s 1987 “Right-to-Carry” (RTC) law, using use panel data for 58 Florida counties from 1980 to 2000 to examine the effects on violent crime from increases in the number of...
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+ Measurement error in county-level UCR data
- Author:
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Lott, J. R. / Whitley, J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Journal of Quantitative Criminology
- Topics:
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Criminology, Gun Carrying, Legislation and Policy, Ownership, Social Science, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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UCR, county level crime data, measurement error, systematic biases
The authors respond to an article by two other scholars who analyzed Lott’s county-level crime data and concluded that the measurement errors in the dataset bring his gun law research based on this data...
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+ Measurement and Other Errors in County-Level UCR Data: A Reply to Lott and Whitley
- Author:
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Maltz, Michael D. / Targonski, Joseph
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Journal of Quantitative Criminology
- Topics:
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Criminology, Gun Carrying, Legislation and Policy, Ownership, Social Science, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Uniform Crime Reports, concealed weapon, county-level crime data, gun, measurement error
The authors respond to Lott and Whitley’s critique of their analyses of errors in county-level Uniform Crime Reports data that Lott has used in his research supporting the “more guns, less crime” hypothesis...
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+ Confirming "more guns, less crime"
- Author:
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Plassmann, F. / Whitley, J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Stanford Law Review
- Topics:
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Criminology, Gun Carrying, Legislation and Policy, Ownership
- Keywords:
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county-level data, response, right-to-carry
The authors analyzed county-level data 1977 to 2000 regarding the impact of right-to-carry (RTC) laws. They reported that during the first five years that a RTC law is in effect, the total benefit from...
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+ More guns, more crime
- Author:
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Duggan, M.
- Date:
- 2001
- Publication:
- Journal of Political Economy
- Topics:
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Criminology, Homicide, Legislation and Policy, Ownership
- Keywords:
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CRIME, Gun ownership, HOMICIDE, concelaed carry, evaluation
The author explores the relationship between state level gun ownership and homicide. Because measures of gun ownership in the United States were not available at the state level in 2001, the author uses...
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