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GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION: Impact and Ideology
Author(s) -
DeZEE MATTHEW R.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1983.tb00304.x
Subject(s) - gun control , legislation , ideology , state (computer science) , law , gun violence , measure (data warehouse) , political science , social control , control (management) , criminology , poison control , law and economics , economics , suicide prevention , sociology , politics , computer science , environmental health , medicine , algorithm , database , management
This analysis attempts to measure the impact of state laws upon the rates of gun violence. While controlling for several standard social phenomena and using two different statistical techniques, it appears that laws governing the use of handguns in the various states have little effect on the rates of gun crime. It is suggested that the possible reason for such ineffectiveness is not necessasrily the nature of the solutions (laws), but rather the misunderstanding of the problem (gun violence) by policy implementers.