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More guns, less crime : understanding crime and gun-control laws

text More guns, less crime : understanding crime and gun-control laws

Summary
Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it cause more citizens to harm each other? Wherever people happen to fall along the ideological spectrum, their answers are all too often founded upon mere impressionistic and ... Read more
Contents
[ch]. 1. Introduction -- [ch]. 2. How to test the effects of gun control -- [ch]. 3. Gun ownership, gun laws, and the data on crime -- [ch]. 4. Concealed-handgun laws and crime rates: the empirical evidence -- [ch]. 5. Victims and the benefits fro... Read more
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x, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press 1998

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 344.73 LOT in Adult Non-fiction Available

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