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Do Gun-Purchase Waiting Periods Save Lives? [PDF]
Health EconABSTRACT We study the impact of gun‐purchase waiting periods on suicide rates using county‐level mortality data from 1991–2019. We find that waiting periods are associated with a reduction in both firearm and overall suicide rates of approximately 5% and 2%, respectively.
Arnold GE, Priestley MB.
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Community-engaged crime prevention through environmental design and reductions in violent and firearm crime. [PDF]
Am J Community PsycholAbstract In the U.S., crime and violence are concentrated in cities that have lost industry and population due to economic disinvestment and structurally racist policies. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have called for community‐level approaches that reduce violence in these cities by improving unsafe physical environments, increasing ...
Rupp LA +9 more
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“Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy”: An Economic Analysis of the Attack on Gun Control [PDF]
, 1996 A relatively new way for utilizing the thermal performance of heat pipes is to use nanofluids as working fluids in the heat pipes. Heat pipes are effective heat transfer devices in which the nanofluid operates in the two phases, evaporation and ...
Cook, Philip J., Leitzel, James A.
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Rehabilitation and social behavior: Experiments in prison [PDF]
, 2020 Despite the economic and social significance of crime reduction and criminals’ rehabilitation, research evaluating the effects of incarceration on behavior is surprisingly scarce.
Balafoutas, Loukas +4 more
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From the Instrument of Delivery to the Actual Agent of Harm: Fighting the Criminal Purchase of Ammunition [PDF]
, 2012 The illegal trade in ammunition in the Netherlands seems to be a small-scale problem. However, as a result of high profits and a small chance of being caught, it is an extremely attractive criminal activity for malicious individuals.
Vries, M.S. de
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Where the guns come from: The gun industry and gun commerce. [PDF]
, 2002 Under federal law, it is illegal for youth under age 18 to purchase rifles or shotguns, and for those under age 21 to purchase handguns. However, fatality and injury statistics clearly show that guns are finding their way into young people's hands.
Garen J. Wintemute
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, 1969 Social entrepreneurship and other new forms such as ecological or sustainable entrepreneurship have emerged as promising new solutions to solve societal problems. Therefore these types of sustainability-oriented entrepreneurship also increasingly attract
Mack, Juliane, Pützschel, Julia
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Would banning firearms reduce murder and suicide? A review of international evidence [PDF]
, 2006 The world abounds in instruments with which people can kill each other. Is the widespread availability of one of these instruments, firearms, a crucial determinant of the incidence of murder?
Don B. Kates, Gary Mauser
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Boreas, EarlyView.This study investigates the species composition and distribution of gallinaceous birds (Galliformes) in the south of eastern Europe, specifically within the territory of present‐day Ukraine, during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. The research is based on the comprehensive revision of skeletal remains found at archaeological sites.
Leonid Gorobets +3 more
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Guns as American Exceptionalism [PDF]
, 2018 There is no issue on which the U.S. is as exceptional as civilian ownership of firearms. There are an estimated 330 million firearms in private hands; there is at least one firearm in 40% of American households. With 5% of the world's population, the U.
Jacobs, James
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