Under the Gun: Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America

ISBN-13: 9781138540019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 342 str.

Peter H. Rossi

Opis

In 1978, the Social and Demographic Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, received a grant from the National Institute of Justice to undertake a comprehensive review of the literature on weapons, crime, and violence in the United States

Spis treści

One: Weapons, Crime, and Violence; I: Weapons; Two: How Many Guns in Private Hands?; 3: Recent Trends in Weapons Ownership; Four: Recent Trends in Weapons Ownership; Five: Recent Trends in Weapons Ownership; Six: Characteristics of Private Weapons Owners; Seven: On Crime and Private Weapons; II: Crime and Violence; Eight: How Much Crime? How Much Violence?; Nine: The Firearms Used in Crime; Ten: Ten on the Matter of Criminal Motivations; III: Weapons and Their Control; Eleven: Public Opinion and Gun Control; Twelve: Regulating Firearms; Thirteen: Weapons Control Legislation and Effects on Violent Crime; Fourteen: Some Policy Implications

O autorze

Peter H. Rossi