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State-Level Firearm Transfer Policy
Justice Research and Policy, 2017The aim of the present study was to determine whether latent class analysis (LCA) could obtain a measure of the aggregate firearm transfer law environment. LCA, analysis of variance, and multinomial logistic regression were used to analyze state-level firearm transfer laws.
David G. Mueller +4 more
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Firearms, Violence and Public Policy
Scientific American, 1991See correction in Scientific American, 1992; 266(3):8 Even though the United States has more gun control laws than any other country in the world, Americans are more likely to be victims of gun-related violence, and social and behavioral scientists have been investigating how violence is related to firearms since the 1960's.
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1998
Abstract The most alarming statistics about recent American youth violence concern the increasing rate of homicide, which is wholly the result of increasing gun use in assaults. During the eight years after 1985, when the homicide rate for persons over the age of 24 did not increase, the total homicide rate attributable to juvenile ...
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Abstract The most alarming statistics about recent American youth violence concern the increasing rate of homicide, which is wholly the result of increasing gun use in assaults. During the eight years after 1985, when the homicide rate for persons over the age of 24 did not increase, the total homicide rate attributable to juvenile ...
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Opinions on a Firearm Prohibition Policy That Targets Intimate Partner Violence
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2018Firearms and intimate partner violence form a nexus of dangerousness and lethality. But, some policies aim to separate the two phenomena. The present study aims to fill a gap in the literature focusing on opinions toward a firearm prohibition for persons with injunctions for protection in effect against them by analyzing data from a convenience sample ...
Julio Montanez, Amy Donley
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The role of firearms in intimate partner violence: policy and research considerations
Journal of Public Health Policy, 2019Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major threat to women's safety and well-being worldwide. Firearms heighten this threat by increasing the morbidity and mortality of IPV. This paper focuses on the United States, a nation with high rates of IPV alongside high rates of gun ownership.
Alexandria, Goodyear +2 more
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An Introduction to the Semantics and Statistics Behind the Firearm Policy Debates
Journal of Emergency NursingIt is impossible to fully understand why the United States has consistently failed to protect its citizens from firearm violence until one understands some of the key discrepancies that exist at the center of the firearm policy debate. Differences in language, data categorization, and research related to firearms and their impacts in the United States ...
Elizabeth Stone +2 more
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Roczniki Administracji i Prawa, 2020
The article concerns the issue of administrative seizure of firearms. This questionable issue was regulated in art. 19 of the Act on arms and ammunition. The article contains numerous references to the jurisprudence of the Supreme Administrative Court and the Provincial Administrative Court.
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The article concerns the issue of administrative seizure of firearms. This questionable issue was regulated in art. 19 of the Act on arms and ammunition. The article contains numerous references to the jurisprudence of the Supreme Administrative Court and the Provincial Administrative Court.
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Confounder selection in firearm policy research: a scoping review
American Journal of EpidemiologyAbstract Legislative firearm policies are often proposed as a way of preventing firearm-related harm. Confounding is a substantial threat to accurately estimating the causal effects of firearm policies. This scoping review characterizes the selection of potential confounders in US firearm policy evaluations in the health sciences ...
Julia P Schleimer +4 more
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Firearm Policy Buyers Would Accept
Policies restricting gun sales face substantial political opposition and constitutional constraints. We take a different approach: rather than asking whether gun restrictions should be imposed, we ask how much it would cost to compensate potential handgun buyers to choose alternative products.Bradley Shapiro +2 more
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