+ The supply and demand for guns to juveniles: Oakland's gun tracing project
- Author:
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Calhoun, D. / Dodge, A. C. / Journel, C. S. / Zahnd, E.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Local, Supply, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, California, Crime/statistics & numerical data, Firearms/ legislation & jurisprudence, Program Evaluation
Using police records and gun sale/registration information, data were collected for all gun crimes committed in Oakland, California between 1998 and 1999 in which a juvenile was either the suspect...
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+ Reassessing who contributed most to the decline in violence during the 1990s: A reminder that size does matter
- Author:
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Rennison, Callie Marie / Planty, Mike
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Violence and Victims
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Ethnicity, Gender, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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CRIME, fatal violence, firearm violence, nonfatal violence, young Black urban males
Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey, including approximately 200,000 interviews annually, were used to examine the trends in nonfatal, serious violence from 1994 through 2001. Firearms...
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+ From gunstore to smoking gun: tracking guns that kill children in North Carolina
- Author:
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Campbell BT / Radisch DL / Phillips JD / von Allmen D
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- J Pediatr Surg
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Homicide, State, Supply, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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HOMICIDE, Suicide, pediatric death, retail sale, time-to-crime
The authors examined the incidence of firearm deaths among all children younger than 14 years in North Carolina from January 1999 through December 2002 and estimated the time between the guns’ retail...
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+ Purchase of Multiple Firearms as a Risk Factor for Criminal Gun Use: Implications for Gun Policy and Enforcement
- Author:
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Koper, Christopher S.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Criminology & Public Policy
- Topics:
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Crime, Law Enforcement, Local, State, Supply, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Crime Prevention, GUN control, Law Enforcement, One-Gun-A-Month, PURCHASING
Data from the Maryland State Police registry of handgun sales from 1990 to September 1996 were linked to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) database in an investigation...
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+ Guns and crime
- Author:
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Moody, C. E. / Marvell, T. B.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Southern Economic Journal
- Topics:
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Crime, State, Supply, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Availability, CRIME, General Social Survey, UNITED States
The authors use state level data for 1977-1998 and conclude that gun availability has a negligible effect on any type of crime, including homicide.
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+ The crime drop in America: an exploration of some recent crime trends
- Author:
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Blumstein, Alfred
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology & Crime Prevention
- Topics:
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Crime, Gun Carrying, Supply, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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DRUG traffic, GUN control, IMPRISONMENT, MURDER, ROBBERY
The author examined data from the annual Federal Bureau of Investigation annual volume Crime in the United States, a compilation based on crimes reported by the police. Between 1993 and 2000 the United...
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+ Effects of a gun dealer's change in sales practices on the supply of guns to criminals
- Author:
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Webster, D. W. / Vernick, J. S. / Bulzacchelli, M. I.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Crime, Supply, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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CRIME, Firearms/ economics, Licensure, Marketing, UNITED States
On May 10, 1999, a single gun store that had sold more than half of the guns recovered from criminals in Milwaukee, WI shortly following retail sale, stopped selling small, inexpensive handguns popular...
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+ Underground gun markets
- Author:
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Cook, P. J. / Ludwig, J. / Venkatesh, S. / Braga, A. A.
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- Economic Journal
- Topics:
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Crime, Local, Supply, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Chicago, Economics, Gun sales
The economics of illegal gun sales in Chicago are studied via interviews, surveys, and surveillance data. High transaction costs, such as illegal guns being priced higher than legal guns, increased difficulty...
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+ Estimating the Size of a Criminal Population from Police Records Using the Truncated Poisson Regression Model
- Author:
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van Der Heijden, Peter G. M. / Cruyff, Maarten / van Houwelingen, Hans C.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Statistica Neerlandica
- Topics:
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Crime, International, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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capture-recapture model, methodology, offender
The authors try to estimate the total number of offenders in the Netherlands using data from Dutch police records. They use the capture-recapture model from biology that is used to estimate animal abundance...
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