Scenes From a Sociolegal Career: An Informal Memoir
ABSTRACT This memoir describes the 40‐year unfolding, project by project, of my sociolegal field research on legal and regulatory processes. It provides brief accounts of my interactions and interviews with regulatory officials and with businesspeople responsible for regulatory compliance.
Robert A. Kagan
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Estimating effects within nonlinear autoregressive models: a case study on the impact of child access prevention laws on firearm mortality [PDF]
Autoregressive models are widely used for the analysis of time-series data, but they remain underutilized when estimating effects of interventions. This is in part due to endogeneity of the lagged outcome with any intervention of interest, which creates difficulty interpreting model coefficients.
arxiv
Sources of Guns to Dangerous People: What We Learn By Asking Them [PDF]
Gun violence exacts a lethal toll on public health. This paper focuses on reducing access to firearms by dangerous offenders, contributing original empirical data on the gun transactions that arm offenders in Chicago.
Harold A. Pollack+2 more
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Nationwide trends in prehospital blood product use after injury 2020–2023
Abstract Introduction Prehospital blood transfusion improves survival after injury. Understanding potential demand for and usage of prehospital blood transfusion is important to help improve supply and utilization of this prehospital intervention. The primary objective of this study is to describe potential current demand for prehospital blood product ...
Christine Carico+10 more
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Wireless-Delimited Secure Zones with Encrypted Attribute-Based Broadcast for Safe Firearms [PDF]
This work presents an application of the highly expressive Attribute-Based Encryption to implement wireless-delimited Secure Zones for firearms. Within these zones, radio-transmitted local policies based on attributes of the consumer and the firearm are received by embedded hardware in the firearms, which then advises the consumer about safe operations.
arxiv
MASTER: Market-Guided Stock Transformer for Stock Price Forecasting [PDF]
Stock price forecasting has remained an extremely challenging problem for many decades due to the high volatility of the stock market. Recent efforts have been devoted to modeling complex stock correlations toward joint stock price forecasting. Existing works share a common neural architecture that learns temporal patterns from individual stock series ...
arxiv
The Costs and Consequences of Gun Control [PDF]
In politicizing mass murders, gun control advocates, such as President Obama, insist that more laws against firearms can enhance public safety. Over and over again, there are calls for common sense gun controls, such as a system of universal background ...
David B. Kopel
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Supply Base attributes and diversion risk in a supply chain for hazardous pharmaceutical products
Abstract We develop a novel construct, diversion risk, defined as the potential for post‐retail diversion that results from increased sales of hazardous goods. We examine diversion risk in the context of prescription opioid sales in the United States. We ask how supply base attributes and nonprofit ownership influence the creation of opioid diversion ...
Paul F. Skilton+3 more
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Domestic and International Firearm Laws: Can Implementation Be Used to Nationally Decrease Firearm Violence and Mass Shootings [PDF]
The issue of firearm violence in the United States is highly controversial, as there are sound arguments on both sides of the discussion. Advocates of stricter gun laws often refer to both international and domestic examples that highlight the ...
Banuelos, Kenneth
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ABSTRACT The collateral consequences of justice involvement have become the subject of much reform activity in recent years. Drawing from a sample of 284 news articles, the present study uses content analysis methods to identify and examine the dominant frames that characterize collateral consequences in public discourse as a problematic feature of ...
David McElhattan
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