Canada’s 1977 Criminal Law Amendment Act mandated a firearms acquisition certificate for the purchase of any firearm; strengthened the registration requirements for handguns and other “restricted” weapons already imposed in 1968; and placed automatic...
More specifically, the standardized national rates for total homicides, homicides by firearms, and homicides by other methods for suspects and for victims for the years 1972-1976 and 1977-1982 were analyzed to determine whether the use of firearms in Canadian...
This research updates and extends former research conducted on this issue, based on the surveys of 1989 and 1992. In addition, data from the International Crime Victimization Surveys were used on total and gun-related robbery and assault (including threats). The...
