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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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Reassessing the Significance of Firearms in Central Africa: The Case of North-Western Zambia to the 1920s [PDF]
, 2010 Based on a close examination of European travelogues and the evidence produced in the wake of the formulation of colonial gun policies, this article contends that the significance of firearms in Central Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth ...
Gann +5 more
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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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Demand and supply of commercial firearms in the United States
, 2013 The article establishes methods by which to estimate demand and supply in the commercial firearms market in the United States. For the first time, this includes the number of used firearms resold via federally licensed retailers.
J. Brauer
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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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, 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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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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Does corporate social responsibility affect the cost of equity in controversial industry sectors?
Review of Accounting and Finance, 2019 Purpose This paper aims to examine whether corporate social responsibility influences the cost of equity capital of firms operating in controversial industry sectors.
Abdelmajid Hmaittane +2 more
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, 2020 Statement of Purpose The public stock of firearms in the U.S. is increasing by an estimated three to five million firearms per year. Without enacting unpopular (and unconstitutional) controls on the purchase of firearms, there are few options for ...
D. Wiebe +4 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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