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COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND THE OWNERSHIP OF FIREARMS FOR PROTECTION
Author(s) -
YOUNG ROBERT L.,
McDOWALL DAVID,
LOFTIN COLIN
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1987.tb00788.x
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , economic justice , business , survey data collection , criminology , demographic economics , economics , political science , psychology , law , sociology , demography , statistics , population , mathematics
This paper examines the hypothesis that people purchase firearms for protection when confidence in collective institutions of justice and security declines. Analysis of survey data from Detroit indicates that gun ownership for protection is inversely related to confidence in the police and in the courts, and that these relationships are independent of demographic and socioeconomic variables and fear of crime.