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Eunice Yiadom
Professor Strehle
9 July 2019
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My essay will attempt to answer whether gun control in the United States can affect crimes
reduction. I want to know why guns were allowed to be used in the United States at the first
place. I want to know how will crime reduction if guns are band from using.
Alex Seitz-Wald, "The Answer Is Not More Guns," Salon, December 18, 2012. Copyright ©
If arming more civilians will help save lives is flowed than experts
Latzer, Barry. “The Futility of Gun Control as Crime Control.” Academic Questions, vol. 32, no. 2,
The article presents an essay which deals with crime control with reference to gun control in the
U.S. Topics discussed include systematic relationship between crime and the issuance
of gun permits; an information that gun reform lobby has to come up with alternative approaches
to the problem of high gun homicides; and information on gun safety training.
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Cook, Philip J., and Jens Ludwig. “Understanding Gun Violence: Public Health Vs. Public Policy.”
Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, vol. 38, no. 3, June 2019, pp. 788–795. EBSCOhost,
doi:10.1002/pam.22141.
This article discusses gun violence as a public policy challenge in the U.S. According to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, 40,000 deaths from gun violence were reported in 2017 in
the U.S. Topics discussed include back-and-forth dialogue between public policy and public
health experts about limitations of public health approach to address gun violence; punishing
perpetrators of criminal gun violence and law enforcement as one tool to address gun violence.
Donohue, John J. “More Gun Carrying, More Violent Crime.” Econ Journal Watch, no. 1, 2018, p.
67. EBSCOhost,
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live.
This article talks about the ADZ presented reasons for considering that county-data estimates were
less reliable than state-level estimates (for example, the government withdrew the 1993
county data as too flawed to rely on and scholars have emphasized the superior
reporting and more complete FBI validation in the state versus county data; in
addition, the county data only went to 2006 while the state data analyzed in ADZ
went through 2010). But ADZ certainly didn’t ignore the county-data results, nor
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would they have any reason to do so to avoid showing uncongenial results. Indeed, many of the
county-data estimates were larger and more statistically significant than the state-data estimates.
their coauthor Lott’s regression model, their affection for the county-level data
and for using the longest data period would presumably push them to embrace the
Makarios, Matthew D., and Travis C. Pratt. “The Effectiveness of Policies and Programs That
Attempt to Reduce Firearm Violence: A Meta-Analysis.” Crime & Delinquency, vol. 58, no. 2,
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In this article, response to rising rates of firearms violence that peaked in the mid-1990s, a wide
violent crimes committed with firearms. Although some of these approaches appear to be
effective at reducing gun violence, methodological variations make comparing effects across
program evaluations difficult. Accordingly, in this article, the authors use meta-analytic
techniques to determine what works in reducing gun violence. The results indicate that
Shi, Wei, and Lung-fei Lee. “The Effects of Gun Control on Crimes: A Spatial Interactive Fixed
Effects Approach.” Empirical Economics, vol. 55, no. 1, Aug. 2018, p. 233. EBSCOhost,
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This paper examines the effect of right-to-carry laws on crimes. We relax the assumption that
unobserved time effects have homogeneous impacts on states; therefore, states with right-to-
carry laws may follow different time trends which might be stronger or weaker than those of
other states including states with no right-to-carry laws. The heterogeneous time trends are
modeled by a factor structure where time factors represent time-varying unobservable, and factor
loadings account for their heterogeneous impacts across states. No assumption is imposed on the
shape of the time trend. Crime statistics exhibit spatial dependence, and a state’s adoption of
right-to-carry law may have external effects on its neighboring states. Using a dynamic spatial
panel model with interactive effects, we find positive spatial spillovers in crime rates. Depending
decrease crime rates by 0.069-0.287%, with property crimes exhibiting higher degrees of spatial
dependence than violent crimes. We find that although the passage of right-to-carry laws has no
significant effects on the overall violent or property crime rates, they lead to short-term increases
in robbery and medium-term decreases in murder rates. The results are robust to the number of
factors, a different sample ending point, and some alternative spatial weights matrices and model
specifications.
Galea, Sandro, and Roger D. Vaughan. “Learning From the Evolving Conversation on Firearms: A
Public Health of Consequence, July 2018.” American Journal of Public Health, vol. 108, no. 7,
An editorial is presented which addresses a potential firearms-related public health crisis in the U.S.
as of 2018, and it mentions a section of the current issue of the journal which
features articles dealing with gun violence protection. According to the article, close to 100
people in America die each day from firearms. High-profile shootings at places such as Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School are assessed, along with firearms research and population health
science research.