Firearms and violence : a critical review /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:	National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Improve Research Information and Data on Firearms.
Imprint:	Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2005.
Description:	xii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Firearms and crime -- United States. Firearms and crime -- Research -- United States. Firearms ownership -- United States. Violence -- United States. Violence -- United States -- Prevention. Firearms and crime. Firearms ownership. Violence. Violence -- Prevention. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5568384

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Other authors / contributors:	Wellford, Charles F. Pepper, John, 1964- Petrie, Carol. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Law and Justice.
ISBN:	0309091241 (hardcover) 0309546400 (pdf)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-268) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Data for measuring firearms violence and ownership
3. Patterns of firearm-related violence
4. Interventions aimed at illegal firearm acquisition
5. The use of guns to defend against criminals
6. Right-to-carry laws
7. Firearms and suicide
8. Firearm injury prevention programs
9. Criminal justice interventions to reduce firearm-related violence
App. A. Dissent / James Q. Wilson
App. B. Committee response to Wilson's dissent
App. C. Judicial scrutiny of challenged gun control regulations : the implications of an individual right interpretation of the Second Amendment / Scott Gast
App. D. Statistical issues in the evaluation of the effects of right-to-carry laws / Joel L. Horowitz
App. E. Biographical sketches of committee members and staff.

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