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Gun control
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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01 Oct 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the nature of crime in the United States, and the role of community policing in the criminal justice system, and present a model for the Peacemaking Pyramid Paradigm (P3).
Abstract: All chapters include "Key Terms." Dedication. Preface. 1.The Nature of Crime in the United States. Defining Crime. Types of Crime. Crime Trends. Crime and the Media. Crime and Freedom. 2.War on Crime Perspective. War as a Metaphor. Costs of the War on Crime. 3.The Peace Perspective. Peacemaking Traditions. Peacemakers Who Challenged Injustice. Peacemaking Pyramid Paradigm (P3). Rationale for the Peacemaking Alternative. Government Policy as a Model of Behavior. 4.Criminal Justice as a System. Overview of the Criminal Justice System. Rule of Law. The Victim and the Criminal Justice System. 5.Police and Peacemaking. The Paramilitary Nature of Police Institutions. Community Policing. What Are the Limitations of the Community Policing Concept? Community Policing and the Police. 6.Courts and Justice. The Criminal Court Process. Discretion in the Courts. Plea Bargaining and Justice. Sentencing and Sentence Disparity. Peacemaking in the Court System. 7.Corrections and Peacemaking. Deterrence. Incapacitation. Rehabilitation. Foucault and Social Control. Forms of Corrections. Resources and Rehabilitation. Token Treatment. Treatment as Social Control. 8.Drugs. A History of Drug Use in the United States. The War on Drugs. Peacemaking and the War on Drugs. Toward a More Sane Drug Policy. 9.Violence. History of Violence in the United States. Socialization into Violence. Institutional Support for Violence. Violence as a Solution to Problems. Responding to Violence. Prevention of Homicide. Safe Streets and Empty Streets. Serial Killers and Mass Murderers. 10.Gun Control. Legacy of Firearms in the United States. Arguments for Gun Control. Arguments against Gun Control. Realistic Gun Control. Peacemaking and Guns. 11.Capital Punishment. History of Capital Punishment. Arguments for Capital Punishment. Arguments against Capital Punishment. Costs of Capital Punishment. Peacemaking and Capital Punishment. 12.Youth and Gangs. Youth Culture in the United States. Youth Crime. Youth Violence. The Great High School Fight. Peacemaking for Youth. 13.Crime from a Global Perspective. A Note on Ethnocentrism. Crime and Justice in Saudi Arabia. Crime in Africa. Organized Crime in Russia. Crime Control in China. Sex Tourism. 14.Give Peace a Chance. Appendix A. Criminal Justice as a Career. Appendix B. Crime and Justice on the World Wide Web. Glossary. Bibliography.
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TL;DR: It is shown that firearm acquisitions in the United States increase with mass shootings, and this growth may be driven by anticipation of stricter regulations as media coverage about gun control increases with shooting events.
Abstract: With an alarming frequency, the United States is experiencing mass shooting events, which often result in heated public debates on firearm control. Whether such events play any role in recent dramatic increases in firearm prevalence remains an open question. This study adopts an information-theoretic framework to analyse the complex interplay between the occurrence of a mass shooting, media coverage on firearm control policies and firearm acquisition at both national and state levels. Through the analysis of time series from 1999 to 2017, we identify a correlation between the occurrence of a mass shooting and the rate of growth in firearm acquisition. More importantly, a transfer entropy analysis pinpoints media coverage on firearm control policies as a potential causal link in a Wiener–Granger sense that establishes this correlation. Our results demonstrate that media coverage may increase public worry about more stringent firearm control and partially drive increases in firearm prevalence. Porfiri et al. show that firearm acquisitions in the United States increase with mass shootings, and this growth may be driven by anticipation of stricter regulations as media coverage about gun control increases with shooting events.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a pooled cross-section, time-series model to evaluate the effect of the 1977 Canadian firearms legislation on the provincial homicide rate between 1969 and 1989.
Abstract: This article uses a pooled cross-section, time-series model to evaluate the effect of the 1977 Canadian firearms legislation on the provincial homicide rate between 1969 and 1989. This type of model was selected because of its ability to capture variation across space as well as time. The indices included in this model, measured at the provincial level, as independent variables are: unemployment rate, percentage Status Indian, percentage immigrant, percentage male youth, the clearance rate. The results are consistent with the findings of most previous studies that the 1977 Canadian firearms legislation did not have a significant effect on homicide rates. The strongest explanatory factors were percentage Status Indian and male youth.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that re-election motives can help explain why politicians often take a pro-gun stance against the interests of the majority of the electorate, in which an incumbent politician must decide on a primary issue which is more important to a majority of voters, and a secondary issue which a minority cares more intensely about.
Abstract: Why are U.S. congressmen reluctant to support gun control regulations, despite the fact that most Americans are in favor of them? We argue that re-election motives can help explain why politicians often take a pro-gun stance against the interests of the majority of the electorate. We describe a model in which an incumbent politician must decide on a primary issue, which is more important to a majority of voters, and a secondary issue, which a minority cares more intensely about. We derive conditions under which the politician, when approaching reelection, will pander towards the interests of the minority on the secondary issue. To assess the evidence, we exploit the staggered structure of the U.S. Senate| in which one third of members face re-election every two years|and examine senators’ voting behavior on gun control. In line with the model’s predictions, we obtain three main results: senators are more likely to vote pro gun when they are closer to facing re-election; this behavior is driven by Democratic senators, who \ip op" on gun control; election proximity has no impact on the voting behavior of senators who are retiring or hold safe seats.
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TL;DR: This article examined the role of the devil shift and angel shift in interest group rhetoric using the case of gun policy and identified two dimensions relevant to these portrayals: (1) whether a character in a policy narrative is portrayed as good or evil, and (2) whether an actor portraying a character was portrayed as strong or weak.
Abstract: This research examines the role of the devil shift and angel shift in interest group rhetoric using the case of gun policy. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) suggests that the devil shift—whereby political actors characterize their opponents as more malicious and powerful than they actually are—is common in intractable policy debates. Through an analysis of e-mails and press releases by two gun control organizations and two gun rights organizations, I examine how groups portray themselves and their opponents. I identify two dimensions relevant to these portrayals: (1) whether a character in a policy narrative is portrayed as good or evil, and (2) whether a character is portrayed as strong or weak. The findings indicate that while the devil shift is present, the angel shift—that is, the glorification of one's own coalition—is more common in gun policy groups' communications. Two alternative characterizations, which I call the angel in distress and the devil diminished, are also present. The use of these character portrayals varies significantly across political coalitions and as a function of communication purposes. The results suggest a need to reconceptualize character portrayals to better understand how they operate as narrative strategies in the NPF.
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