Background The best estimates of nonfatal gunshot wounds in the United States come from hospital emergency room data and may miss, among other things, wounded individuals who do not seek medical treatment. Criminals may be those least likely to rely on professional...
Objective To determine whether criminals go to the hospital when they are shot. Such information is needed to check on the accuracy of using hospital emergency room data to estimate non-fatal gunshot wounds. Setting Five jails across the US. Methods A survey of...
For over a decade, there has been a spirited academic debate over the impact on crime of laws that grant citizens the presumptive right to carry concealed handguns in public—so-called right-to-carry (RTC) laws. In 2005, the National Research Council (NRC) offered a...
This article summarizes the scientific literature on the health risks and benefits of having a gun in the home for the gun owner and his/ her family. For most contemporary Americans, scientific studies indicate that the health risk of a gun in the home is greater than...
Objectives To present the prevalence of gun ownership among batterers and describe their self-reported use of guns to threaten intimate partners. Methods We used multivariate methods to analyze data from 8529 men enrolled in Massachusetts certified batterer...
