The author analyzed criminal history data of a sample of 720 gun assault and gun possession offenders younger than 24 years old, arrested between 1984 and 1995 in Boston, to examine whether the criminal... read more >

Using data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System for South Carolina from 1991 to 1994, the authors explore how gun availability is related to violent crime, gun crime, youth gun crime and... read more >

The article lines an explanation of the drop in firearms violence during the 1990s and lessons that should be learned to avoid an increase. Previously it has been argued that growth in police and imprisonment... read more >

This study compares neighborhood-level predictors of non-commercial robberies committed with guns to predictors of other (non-gun) non-commercial robberies. Extending earlier sociological research on... read more >

Using data from 19 neighborhoods in a mid-sized city in 1999, this study finds that residents of neighborhoods with higher levels of social cohesion are more likely than residents of neighborhoods with... read more >

The author, after examining data collected by the U.S. Sentencing Commission in the 1990s and reviewing several studies of firearm sentence enhancements (FSEs) laws, which require judges to impose increased... read more >

The authors examined the psychiatric and neurological characteristics of accused murderers in the US, reviewing retrospective records of 270 pretrial detainees undergoing competency to stand trial and... read more >

The authors evaluate the use of firearms trace data to identify sources of illegal firearms and assess the efficacy of law enforcement strategies that focus on the supply side, using trace data from the... read more >

The authors evaluate incarcerated drug offenders with regards to their participation in drug groups, the type and amount of drugs, their involvement with firearms, and their criminal conviction and arrest... read more >

The author comments on Volpe v. Gallagher and critiques the Rhode Island Supreme Court’s decision against a mother, whose son, residing at their home and being mentally ill, had shot and killed a neighbor... read more >

The authors examined the impact of the Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS) on the productivity of the Boston Police Department’s Ballistic Unit. IBIS maintains a computerized database of... read more >