Firearms and Violence. What Do We Know Wellford C.S., Pepper J.V
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- Annotation
- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
- COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE RESEARCH INFORMATION AND DATA ON FIREARMS
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Executive Summary
- MAJOR CONCLUSIONS
- DATA RECOMMENDATIONS
- Emerging Data Systems on Violent Events
- Ownership Data
- RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS
- Defensive Gun Use
- Right-to-Carry Laws
- Interventions to Reduce Violence and Suicide
- Restricting Access
- Prevention Programs and Technology
- Criminal Justice Interventions
- Introduction
- OUR TASK
- SOURCES OF DATA FOR RESEARCH ON FIREARMS VIOLENCE
- STANDARDS AND METHODS FOR FIREARMS RESEARCH
- GUIDE TO THE REPORT
- Data for Measuring Firearms
- Violence and Ownership
- A PATCHWORK OF DATA SETS
- Data on Violence and Crime
- National Crime Victimization Survey
- Uniform Crime Reports
- National Violent Death Reporting System
- Administrative and Convenience Samples
- GENERAL OBJECTIVES FOR DEVELOPING USEFUL RESEARCH DATA
- Representativeness
- Accuracy
- Comprehensiveness
- Scope
- Context
- Timeliness
- CONCLUSION
- 3 Patterns of Firearm-Related Violence
- HOMICIDE RATES BY COUNTRY
- International Comparisons
- U.S. Rates
- FIREARM AVAILABILITY AND OWNERSHIP
- Survey-Based Estimates
- FIREARM-RELATED HARM
- Victims
- Offenders
- Robberies
- Rape and Sexual Assaults
- Nonfatal Self-Harm
- Firearms and Accidents
- 4 Interventions Aimed at Illegal Firearm Acquisition
- Gun Sources
- Survey Research
- Interpreting the Data
- Supply
- SUBSTITUTION
- Limiting Gun Sales
- Gun Buy-Backs
- SUMMARY
- 5 The Use of Firearms to Defend Against Criminals
- COUNTING DEFENSIVE GUN USES
- Inaccurate Response
- Subjective Assessments
- 6 Right-to-Carry Laws
- Trend Model
- STATISTICAL ANALYSES OF RIGHT-TO-CARRY LAWS
- Lott’s Results
- COMMITTEE’S ANALYSIS: ARE THE ESTIMATES ROBUST?
- Extending the Baseline Specification to 2000
- Are the Results Sensitive to Controls?
- CONCLUSIONS
- Aggravated Property
- 7 Firearms and Suicide
- Conceptual Framework
- ECOLOGICAL STUDIES OF GUN OWNERSHIP AND THE OVERALL RISK OF SUICIDE
- Cross-Sectional Associations
- Proxy Measures of Ownership
- Monte Carlo Experiment
- Ecological Bias
- INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL STUDIES OF THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FIREARMS AND SUICIDE
- Psychological Autopsy Studies
- Risk of Suicide Among Recent Gun Purchasers
- Assessment of Individual-Level Studies
- WHAT DIFFERENCE COULD A GUN LAW MAKE?
- Cross-Sectional Studies of Gun Laws and Suicide
- SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- Data Systems
- Further Policy Studies
- APPENDIX
- MEASURES OF ASSOCIATION IN CASE-CONTROL STUDIES
- Firearm Injury Prevention Programs
- Doctor and police officer Health Partners Research
- Description of Program Evaluation
- Quality of the Research
- FIREARMS SAFETY TECHNOLOGY
- Conclusions
- Criminal Justice Interventions to Reduce Firearm-Related Violence
- ENHANCED SENTENCES FOR CRIMINAL USE OF FIREARMS
- Mandatory Penalties for Unlawful Carrying of Guns
- PROBLEM-ORIENTED POLICING TO PREVENT FIREARM-RELATED CRIME
- Kansas City Gun Project
- Indianapolis Directed Patrol Project
- New York Police Department’s Street Crime Unit
- Boston Gun Project and Operation Ceasefire
- What Has Been Learned?
- References
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix D
- REFERENCES
- Appendix E
- Index
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