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About: Gun control is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1211 publications have been published within this topic receiving 16516 citations. The topic is also known as: firearms control & gun law.


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22 Jan 2014
TL;DR: The authors examines some of the controversy surrounding gun control policy, the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, and the history of firearm control policy initiatives, concluding that "gun control policy has been controversial for a long time".
Abstract: This article examines some of the controversy surrounding gun control policy, the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, and the history of gun control policy initiatives. Keywords: crime statistics; criminology; firearms; gun control; policy; victim; violent crime

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01 May 1993
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of firearm conceal carry laws on the incidence and pattern of violent crime in Texas was evaluated using the Solomon Four-Group Experimental Model (SEMEM).
Abstract: Degree Year University Major Thesis/Dissertation PHD 1999 Sam Houston State University Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Administration An Evaluation of Classroom Based Cognitive Intervention in a Correctional Setting (Solomon Four-Group Experimental Model) Dissertation Chair: Margaret Farnworth, Ph.D MPA 1993 Texas State University Public Administration The Effectiveness of Firearm Conceal Carry Laws on the Incidence and Pattern of Violent Crime ARP Chair: Patricia Shields, Ph.D. BA 1981 Stephen F Austin State Univ Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Administration

2 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at how Heller is likely to fare in the lower courts, based on experience with other recent Supreme Court decisions, and incorporate new scholarship on decision rules and the so-called "new doctrinalism."
Abstract: The Supreme Court's recent decision in District of Columbia v. Heller not only established an individual right to gun ownership, but also overturned - by a 9-0 margin - lower-court caselaw based on a "collective right" interpretation of the Second Amendment. This article looks at how Heller is likely to fare in the lower courts, based on experience with other recent Supreme Court decisions, and incorporates new scholarship on decision rules and the so-called "new doctrinalism."

2 citations

Dissertation
01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study aimed to explain the shift from moderate levels during the 103rd to near complete partisan polarization on the issue by the 115th Congress (2017-2018).
Abstract: Over the course of twelve Congressional sessions and twenty plus years since the passage of landmark gun control legislation (the Brady Bill and the Assault weapons ban) during the 103rd Congress, (1993-1994) polarization on the gun control issue between the Democratic and Republican parties has increased significantly. Applying mixed qualitative methods, this case study aims to explain the shift from moderate levels during the 103rd to near complete partisan polarization on the issue by the 115th Congress (2017-2018). It will demonstrate that this shift was the culmination of the dissolution of opposition groups (consisting of members who crossed the party line in their gun issue voting) within each party, with each party following its own unique polarization trajectory, as disparate factors influenced their respective shifts. For the Republican party, who united on the issue over a decade before the Democratic party, the key variables impacting the fading of party support for gun control were the decline in salience of crime as a priority political issue in the early 2000s and the transition from the general to the primary electorate as the more salient voting bloc in regard to gun control. For the Democratic party, the key variables impacting the fading of party opposition to gun control were a loss of Southern and rural seats, coupled with gun control being re established as an electorally valuable issue for the party nationally in the years after the Sandy Hook shooting in late 2012. The thesis will contest the prevailing narrative that changes in party voting patterns must occur through replacement by demonstrating evidence of conversion- as numerous members of both parties shifted positions on gun control to vote the party line as electoral pressures and incentives influencing opposition group member voting changed. Furthermore, the thesis’s findings bolster the utility of ‘partisan asymmetry’ as a lens through which to approach the study of partisan polarization in Congress.

2 citations

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TL;DR: In the United States, a psychiatric diagnosis or involuntary civil commitment to a psychiatric ward almost always leads to quasi-criminalization in the legal context as discussed by the authors, and the U.S. populace in greater agreement over this stripping of rights than in the areas of gun control and civil commitment, especially in our apparently new “era of spree-killings.
Abstract: In the United States, a psychiatric diagnosis, or involuntary civil commitment to a psychiatric ward — which is considered treatment in the medical context — almost always leads to quasi- criminalization in the legal context. After such diagnosis or treatment, you are rendered, automatically and permanently, a member of one of our nation’s most vulnerable populations and stripped of rights based on your status. In no area is the U.S. populace in greater agreement over this stripping of rights than in the areas of gun control and civil commitment, especially in our apparently new “era of spree-killings.” When it comes to stripping gun rights and involuntarily treating people with psychiatric disabilities (“PPDs”), politicians and pundits on the left and the right are eerily aligned. This Article provides an answer as to why: PPDs are our society’s scapegoats, the tool we use to externalize our fear of the unpredictable violence of what appears to be the rise of spree-killings. Involuntary civil commitment and gun control work together to scapegoat PPDs: often the response to an act of otherwise unexplainable violence is for pundits and politicians on the left and the right to discuss ways to involuntarily commit PPDs and ways to prevent PPDs from getting their hands on guns.

2 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202356
202294
202139
202043
201950
201860