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More guns, less crime : understanding crime and gun-control laws
- Author
- Lott, John R., Jr., 1958-
- Title
- More guns, less crime : understanding crime and gun-control laws / John R. Lott, Jr.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Description
- xii, 442 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Preface to the third edition
- 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 by 1998
- Some final thoughts (1998)
- Updating the results in 2000
- A decade later: nine more years of data and nine more states
- Appendixes.
- Subject headings
- Firearms--Law and legislation--United States. Firearms and crime--United States.
- ISBN
- 9780226493664 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226493660 (pbk. : alk. paper)