Empirical research has struggled to reach consensus about the impact of firearms regulation on crime. Consider, for example, the recent research on Stand Your Ground (SYG) laws that allow a person to use lethal force in self-defense in places outside of the home...
Mortality from almost every type of injury has decreased during the past decade.’ The major exception is death from firearms. Gun deaths have risen in the United States since 1985, with the largest increase occurring among adolescents. Gun purchases by minors...
Research on persons who tend to use guns to injure others suggests that gun control laws should restrict gun possession among persons with prior records of violence rather than among the general public. To avoid inadvertently encouraging the substitution of deadlier...
The aim of this article by Kennedy et al. was to describe the problem of youth violence in Boston and the strategy that they implemented to address it. This article includes the following: 1) a review of the literature, 2) findings from a review of the gun related...
With the increase in youth firearm violence in recent years, policymakers have scrambled to develop feasible and effective responses. Over the past decade, officials have initiated numerous local-level interventions, including gun buy-back programs, targeted weapon...
