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June 14, 2003, 11:58 AM
Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence
>
> Evaluating Gun Policy provides guidance for a pragmatic approach to gun
> policy using good empirical research to help resolve conflicting
> assertions about the effects of guns, gun control, and law enforcement.
> The chapters in this volume do not conform neatly to the claims of any one
> political position.Chapter Summaries:Did Project Exile reduce homicide
> rates?Does widespread gun ownership deter burglars?Do permissive
> concealed-carry laws result in less crime?Are there really 20,000 gun
> control laws?What is the impact of policing against illegal guns?How
> effective are laws barring gun possession by domestic batterers?The book
> is divided into five parts. In the first section, contributors analyze the
> connections between rates of gun ownership and two outcomes of particular
> interest to society-suicide and burglary. Regulating ownership is the
> focus of the second section, where contributors investigate the
> consequences a large-scale combined gun ban and buy-back program in
> Australia, as well as the impact of state laws that prohibit gun ownership
> to those with histories of domestic violence. The third section focuses on
> efforts to restrict gun carrying and includes a critical examination of
> efforts in Pittsburgh to patrol illegal gun traffic and a re-examination
> of the effects of permissive state gun-carrying laws. This section also
> features the first rigorous-and critical-analysis of Richmond's Project
> Exile, which serves as one model for the national Project Safe
> Neighborhoods program. The fourth section focuses on efforts to facilitate
> research on gun violence, including a database on state gun laws and the
> ongoing development of a nationwide violent-death reporting system. The
> book concludes with an examination of the policy process.Please visit the
> link below for ordering and pricing information.
>
> http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/evaluatinggunpolicy.htm
>
> Source:
> Brookings Institution
> 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW
> Washington, DC 20036-2103
>
> Evaluating Gun Policy provides guidance for a pragmatic approach to gun
> policy using good empirical research to help resolve conflicting
> assertions about the effects of guns, gun control, and law enforcement.
> The chapters in this volume do not conform neatly to the claims of any one
> political position.Chapter Summaries:Did Project Exile reduce homicide
> rates?Does widespread gun ownership deter burglars?Do permissive
> concealed-carry laws result in less crime?Are there really 20,000 gun
> control laws?What is the impact of policing against illegal guns?How
> effective are laws barring gun possession by domestic batterers?The book
> is divided into five parts. In the first section, contributors analyze the
> connections between rates of gun ownership and two outcomes of particular
> interest to society-suicide and burglary. Regulating ownership is the
> focus of the second section, where contributors investigate the
> consequences a large-scale combined gun ban and buy-back program in
> Australia, as well as the impact of state laws that prohibit gun ownership
> to those with histories of domestic violence. The third section focuses on
> efforts to restrict gun carrying and includes a critical examination of
> efforts in Pittsburgh to patrol illegal gun traffic and a re-examination
> of the effects of permissive state gun-carrying laws. This section also
> features the first rigorous-and critical-analysis of Richmond's Project
> Exile, which serves as one model for the national Project Safe
> Neighborhoods program. The fourth section focuses on efforts to facilitate
> research on gun violence, including a database on state gun laws and the
> ongoing development of a nationwide violent-death reporting system. The
> book concludes with an examination of the policy process.Please visit the
> link below for ordering and pricing information.
>
> http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/evaluatinggunpolicy.htm
>
> Source:
> Brookings Institution
> 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW
> Washington, DC 20036-2103