Four hundred seven (407) urban college student commuters enrolled at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas were surveyed about their experiences with stress induced by driving. 23.6% of participants reported... read more >

The authors examined the effect of race on rapid decisions towards persons holding weapons acted out in 2 computer-simulated tasks. Participants in this experiment responded to simulated (a) criminals... read more >

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... read more >

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... read more >

The authors use data from a questionnaire completed by 167 male and 167 female junior high school students in a semi-rural community in New York to examine the quality of their relationships with parents,... read more >

The authors examined the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and carrying of concealed firearms by Chicago youth aged 9 to 19 years, using data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago... read more >

The author uses a variety of social methodologies to examine the forces that affect the arming pilots with handguns at work after the events of 9/11. She suggests that their desire for handguns resulted... read more >

This is a brief discussion of an article by Bernard Harcourt at the symposium dealing with the argument that in Nazi Germany, gun registration policies facilitated the annihilation of the nation’s Jews... read more >

The author examines the scholarly debate and political repercussions of the “more guns, less crime” hypothesis and the enactment of “Right-to-carry” (RTC) laws. He notes the recently published research... read more >

In this commentary, the authors respond to critiques by both pro- and anti-gun control scholars to their previously published article arguing that cultural worldviews are more important than empirical... read more >

The authors argue that individuals’ positions on gun control vary depending on their cultural worldviews. Egalitarians generally support gun control, whereas individualists oppose it. They suggest that... read more >