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| Preface to the Expanded Edition | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction to the AldineTransaction Edition | |
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| The Criminal Acquisition and Use of Firearms | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Gun Crime as a Social Problem | |
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| Social Science Implications | |
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| Policymaking Considerations | |
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| An Overview of Prior Literature and Our Findings | |
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| Characteristics of the Prisoner Sample | |
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| A Typology of Criminal Gun Use | |
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| Firearms Ownership and Use | |
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| Growing Up with Guns | |
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| Why Do Criminals Carry Guns | |
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| Armed Victims | |
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| What Felons Look For in Firearms | |
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| The Market for Criminals' Guns | |
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| "Gun Control" and Criminal Gun Use | |
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| Policy Implications | |
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| The Felon Survey Methods, Procedures, Descriptive Data | |
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| Research Goals | |
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| Survey Design and Method | |
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| Selection of Research Sites | |
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| Choosing Respondents within Prisons | |
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| Field Operations | |
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| Response Rates | |
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| Questionnaire Development and Disposition | |
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| Site Descriptions and Characteristics | |
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| Data Quality | |
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| Salient Sample Characteristics | |
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| Summary of Sample Characteristics | |
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| Varieties of Armed Criminals: A Descriptive Typology | |
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| Validation | |
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| Previous Criminal Histories | |
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| Patterns of Weapons Ownership and Use: On the Circumstances of Criminal Violence | |
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| Overall Patterns of Ownership and Use | |
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| Patterns of Weapons Use: The Conviction Offense | |
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| Patterns of Weapons Use: Other Offenses | |
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| The Correlates of "Habitual" Weapons Carrying | |
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| Additional Details on Weapons-Carrying Behavior | |
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| Summary of Principal Findings | |
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| Family, Friends, and Firearms: The Effects of Socialization on Felons' Weapons Behavior | |
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| Motivations to go Armed | |
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| The "Rationality" of Firearms use in Crime | |
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| Measuring Weapons-Carrying Motives | |
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| The Motivations of Nongun Users | |
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| Coherence in Motives | |
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| The Importance of Gun Carrying | |
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| Reasons for the "Most Recent" Firearms Acquisitions | |
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| Confronting the Armed Victim | |
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| Armed Victims as Risks to Criminals | |
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| Attitudinal Results | |
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| Armed Victim Confrontations: Experiential Results | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Criminal as a Firearms Consumer | |
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| What Felons Look For in a Handgun | |
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| What Felons Actually Carry | |
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| Consumer Sophistication | |
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| Summary | |
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| Patterns of Acquisition: Where and How Felons Obtain Guns | |
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| How and Where Do Felons Obtain Handguns? | |
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| Criminal Handguns versus Crime Handguns | |
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| Other Characteristics of the Criminal-Handgun Market | |
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| Where and How Do Felons Obtain Shoulder Weapons? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Patterns of Acquisition: Gun Theft | |
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| How Many Crime Guns are Stolen Guns? | |
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| Who Steals Guns? | |
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| How Many Guns Are Stolen? | |
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| Why Are Guns Stolen? | |
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| The Commerce in Stolen Firearms | |
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| Where are Guns Stolen? | |
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| The Optimal Gun Theft | |
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| Summary | |
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| Handgun Controls and Weapons Choice: The Substitution Issue | |
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| Substitution Theory | |
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| Postrelease Gun Acquisition | |
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| Acquisition Under Conditions of Scarcity | |
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| The Great American Gun War: Some Policy Implications of the Felon Study | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Nature of the Illicit Firearms Market | |
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| Crime Guns: Quality and Price | |
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| Why Criminals Carry and Use Guns | |
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| Substitution and Other Neutralizing Side Effects | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |