Firearms account for a substantial proportion of external causes of death, injury, and
disability across the world. Legislation to regulate firearms has often been passed with the …

The Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force) is conducting
systematic reviews of scientific evidence about diverse interventions for the prevention of …

This paper examines the relationship between gun ownership and crime. Previous research
has suffered from a lack of reliable data on gun ownership. I exploit a unique data set to …

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To
answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the US …

pose it. Indeed, cultural orientations so defined are stronger predictors of individuals'
positions than is any other fact about them, including whether they are male or female, white …

John Lott and David Mustard have used regression analysis to argue forcefully that'shall-
issue'laws (which give citizens an unimpeded right to secure permits for concealed …

Thorough and authoritative, Regional and Urban Economics and Economic Development:
Theory and Methods provides students with a sound approach to analyzing the economic …

Research Summary: The heavy reliance on the use of incarceration in an attempt to address
the crime problem has resulted in a dramatic growth in the number of state prisoners over …

During the 1990s, in response to public dissatisfaction over what were perceived as
ineffective crime reduction policies, 25 states and Congress passed three strikes laws …

International evidence and comparisons have long been offered as proof of the mantra that
more guns mean more deaths and that fewer guns, therefore, mean fewer …