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Homicide and Gun Control : The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and Homicide Rates.

Monroe, Jeffrey D.

Homicide and Gun Control : The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and Homicide Rates. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (225 pages)

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Analyzing the Impact of the Brady Bill on Homicide Rates -- The Importance of Gun Control Research -- An Empirical Test of the Brady Bill -- Failing to Reduce Handgun Homicide Rates -- Guiding Policy with Empirical Evidence -- EndNotes -- Treatment and Control States as Originally Categorized by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms as of Brady's Effective Date, February 28, 1994 -- State Level Variation in Background Check Procedures as of December 31, 1996 -- Background Check Requirements for Cities in Treatment States -- Analyses without Pennsylvania and Oklahoma and Robustness Checks -- References -- Index.

9781593323561


Gun control -- United States -- Evaluation.
Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Homicide -- United States -- Statistics.


Electronic books.

HV8059 -- .M66 2008eb

364.1520973/021

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