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The “Ferguson effect”, or too many guns?
Author(s) -
Towers Sherry,
White Michael D.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.01018.x
Subject(s) - threatened species , white (mutation) , criminology , history , law , political science , sociology , biology , ecology , biochemistry , habitat , gene
President Trump has threatened to “send in the Feds” to reduce violent crime in the USA's third most populous city. But what might explain the increase? Sherry Towers and Michael D. White assess two hypotheses