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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Gun Crime"”.
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Measuring the Impact of Gun Theft on City-Level Gun Crime Rates
<p>The history of gun culture in the United States is complicated. Guns are an integral part of American history and attempts to control them through policy are often contentious. However, research suggests that gun crime occurs in areas where there are more guns (Braga, 2017; Braga & Pierce, 2005; …
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An examination of the disparate impact of neighborhood characteristics on routine and gang-involved gun violence
… turnover, and racial/ethnic composition on gun crime. There have been limited efforts, however, to examine the extent to which these effects might vary based on the nature of gun crime—particularly in communities outside of major cities like Chicago or St. Louis. This study attempts to …
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Analysis of the factors influencing multiple uses of crime guns: an exploratory study
… of literature has been built around the topic of gun violence in the United States. The characteristics of communities, victims, and offenders have each been used to explain variation in the likelihood and frequency of gun crime. Less attention has been given to the factors associated with …
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The nature of violence: exploring how community and incident characteristics influence the likelihood that gun crimes become multi-victim events
Gun crime continues to represent a substantial threat to public safety in the United States. Firearms are disproportionately involved in most crimes of violence, particularly murder (Collins et al., 2017; Cook & Pollack, 2017; Goldsmith et al., 2022; Johnson et al., 2021), and firearm-related …
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Click, click, boom: a multi-level analysis of repeat firearm offending in Chattanooga, Tennessee
… nations. There has been a renewed focus on gun crime in the wake of a recent dramatic reversal of the long-trending decrease in firearm-related violence. Explorations of the factors that contribute to firearm offending are often restricted to large metro areas like Chicago, New York City, …
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Economics of Social Issues
… perspective. Chapter one looks at the issue of gun crime from a game theoretical perspective, analysing the differing effects of concealed carry of handguns and open carry of handguns on the number of crimes committed. It is found that open carry only laws lead to fewer crimes than concealed …
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QUANTIFYING GANG LOCATIONS: SYSTEMATICALLY TESTING VALIDITY USING A PARTIAL TEST OF MESSICK’S UNIFIED PERSPECTIVE
… (2) gang arrests (N=7,488 from 2012-2015), (3) crime incidents that involve a gun (N=26,865 from 2012-2015), and (4) PPD defined gang set space boundaries. This study examined the validity of each of these indicators when each is used to define gang ecologies. The analysis plan was guided by …