by admin | Feb 3, 2020
Do gun control laws reduce violence? To answer this question, a city-level cross-sectional analysis was performed on data pertaining to every U.S. city with a population of at least 25,000 in 1990 (n = 1,078), assessing the impact of 19 major types of gun control...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
What kinds of people engage in defensive gun use and how do they differ from others? Data from a recent national survey on the prevalence and nature of defensive gun use compare gun defenders to others with a special focus on punitive attitudes toward criminals. The...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
Purposes To determine if perceived risk of criminal victimization, and past criminal victimization experiences, increases the likelihood of a person owning a gun for self-protection, and to determine if defects in past research concerning the way gun ownership was...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
The positive correlation between gun prevalence and homicide rates has been widely documented. But does this correlation reflect a causal relationship? This study seeks to answer the question of whether more guns cause more homicide, and unlike nearly all previous...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
Objective This paper uses a “local average treatment effect” (LATE) framework in an attempt to disentangle the separate effects of criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that a number of previous studies have failed to properly...
