Gun crime rates by felons?????

[jke456]

A friend and I were talking the other day and he made the comment that most shootings are done by convicted felons. while I believe this is probaly pretty accurrate I was wanting to find out if there has actually been a study that compares the gun crime rate to the felon rate. IE what is the rate of gun crimes that are commited by felons who are not allowed to own guns. Does the .gov track this info? Has anyone ever done a study on this?

From What I understand most gun crime occurs in the cities, are commited by gang bangers, and are commited by felons or those that are to young or have other disqualifing reasons they cant own guns.

I'm not sure if this is just my perception or if it is fact. If it is fact I would like to be able to quote a study that proves this.

Seems a study that would show that most gun crimes are commited by persons that are not allowed to own guns would help the law abiding gun owner prove that gun laws dont work would be a great help in the gun control debate.

Any one heard of such a study?

Jon

 

[Autolycus]

I believe the DOJ has a study about where the criminals got the guns.

I would look there. I dont think it is possible to track it really.

 

[Ian Sean]

The FBI does (and publishes) a pretty decent report on crime stats, a cursory look didn't answer your question, you may have to look and dig for it

Link to 2005 report (complete recent year thats available).

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/offenses/expanded_information/murder_homicide.html

 

[Ian Sean]

Found an interesting link at the DOJ:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm#findings

Look at this blurb

Recidivism

Of the 272,111 persons released from prisons in 15 States in 1994, an estimated 67.5% were rearrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within 3 years, 46.9% were reconvicted, and 25.4% resentenced to prison for a new crime.

I think I will be busy for a while, looking at all this data, wow, and folks wonder why we CCW.

 

[Ian Sean]

The DOJ has a report from data from 1990 to 2002 on this page:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/vfluc.htm

The study focused on the 75 largest counties in the US, and 56% of all violent offenders had a prior conviction.

 

[pcosmar]

Recidivism

Of the 272,111 persons released from prisons in 15 States in 1994, an estimated 67.5% were rearrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within 3 years, 46.9% were reconvicted, and 25.4% resentenced to prison for a new crime.

When I was released in 86 it was 80%, I was told I would be back inside of 5 years.
It would seem that its getting better.
Wow, I'm a minority.