Youth violence, particularly among young black males in urban areas, increased radically in the late 1980s and early 1990s and then began to fall. One explanation for this has been the expansion of crack markets in the 1980s; to the degree that increased gun access...
Lott and Mustard [1997] provide evidence that enactment of concealed handgun (“right-to-carry”) laws deters violent crime and induces substitution into property crime. A critique by Black and Nagin [1998] questions the particular model specification used in the...
This article presents one possible alternative to rationing or banning the sale of guns to reduce crime. It offers that enacting “right-to-carry” laws to allow the carrying of concealed handguns can accomplish this task. Chaudhri and Geanakoplos (1998) in...
