More Guns, Less Crime Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, Second Edition

Name: More Guns, Less Crime Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, Second Edition
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ISBN: 9780226493640

ISBN-10: 0226493644

ISBN-13: 9780226493640

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: John R. Lott

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Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it simply cause more citizens to harm each other? Directly challenging common perceptions about gun control, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws. This timely and provocative work comes to the startling conclusion: more guns mean less crime. In this paperback edition, Lott has expanded the research through 1996, incorporating new data available from states that passed right-to-carry and other gun laws since the book's publication as well as new city-level statistics. "Lott's pro-gun argument has to be examined on the…

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List price: $14.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition



Introduction



How to Test the Effects of Gun Control



Gun Ownership, Gun Laws, and the Data on Crime



Concealed-Handgun Laws and Crime Rates: The Empirical Evidence



The Victims and the Benefits from Protection



What Determines Arrest Rates and the Passage of Concealed-Handgun Laws?



The Political and Academic Debate



Some Final Thoughts



Epilogue


Appendixes


Notes


Bibliography


Index