During the last decade, while national homicide rates have remained flat, New York City has experienced a second great crime decline, with gun violence declining by more than 50 percent since 2011. In this paper, we investigate one potential explanation for this...
In 1996, Congress expanded the federal Gun Control Act (GCA) to prohibit defendants convicted of a qualifying domestic violence misdemeanor from possessing or purchasing a firearm. Using the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports along with homicide data collected...
In an era when it has become fashionable to advocate that social policy be guided by evidence, social scientists should be riding high. But there is a problem: The available evidence on what works in the social-policy arena is typically something less than...
In 1986, Peter Reuter suggested that the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) consider offering an annual award for the “most outrageous number mentioned in a policy discussion by an elected official or agency head,” with one of...
