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1. The Effect of Right-to-Carry Laws on Crime Rates : A Critique of the Research of Donohue et al

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John Donohue and his colleagues assessed the impact of "right-to-carry" (RTC) laws on crime rates. These laws make it easier to get a carry permit. Donohue et al. claim that their analysis indicates that, contrary to what nearly all other researchers have found, these laws increase violent crime. This paper presents a critical analysis of the research by Donohue et al., and shows that their conclusions are unwarranted

Kleck, Gary;
2021
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2. Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates : A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach

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This paper uses a "local average treatment effect" (LATE) framework in an attempt to disentangle the separate effects of criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that a number of previous studies have failed to properly address the problems of endogeneity, proxy validity, or heterogeneity in criminality. We demonstrate that the time series proxy problem is severe; previous panel data studies have used proxies that are essentially uncorrelated in time series with direct measures of gun relevance. We adopt instead a cross-section approach: we use U.S. county-level data for 1990, and we proxy gun prevalence levels by the percent of suicides committed with guns, which recent research indicates is the best measure of gun levels for cross-sectional research. We instrument gun levels with three plausibly exogenous instruments: subscriptions to outdoor sports magazines, voting preferences in the 1988 Presidential election, and numbers of military veterans. In our LATE framework, the estimated impact of gun prevalence is a weighted average of a possibly negative impact of noncriminal gun prevalence on homicide and a presumed positive impact of criminal gun prevalence. We find evidence of a significant negative impact, and interpret it as primarily "local to noncriminals", i.e., primarily determined by a negative deterrent effect of noncriminal gun prevalence. The beneficiaries of the reduced level of violence may include substantial numbers of (urban) criminals, the murders of whom decrease via spillovers from noncriminal gun prevalence

Kovandzic, Tomislav; Schaffer, Mark E.; Kleck, Gary;
2021
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3. The Effect of Right-to-Carry Laws on Crime Rates : A Critique of the Donohue et al. (2018) Analysis

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John Donohue and colleagues recently assessed the impact of "right-to-carry" (RTC) laws on crime rates. These laws make it easier to get a carry permit. Donohue et al. claim that their analysis indicates that, contrary to what nearly all other researchers have found, these laws increase violent crime. This paper presents a critical analysis of the research by Donohue et al., and shows that their conclusions are unwarranted

Kleck, Gary;
2020
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4. The Impact of Gun Ownership Rates on Crime Rates: A Methodological Review of the Evidence

Kleck, Gary;
2015
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5. Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates: A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach

Kovandzic, Tomislav; Schaffer, Mark; Kleck, Gary;
2008
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6. Gun prevalence, homicide rates and causality : a GMM approach to endogeneity bias

Kovandzic, Tomislav; Schaffer, Mark E.; Kleck, Gary;
2005
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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7. The effect of perceived risk and victimization on plans to purchase a gun for self-protection

Kleck, Gary; Kovandzic, Tomislav; Saber, Mark; Hauser, Will;
2011
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8. Why do people support gun control?: Alternative explanations of support for handgun bans

Kleck, Gary; Gertz, Marc; Bratton, Jason;
2009
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9. Defensive gun use: vengeful vigilante imagery versus reality: results from the national self-defense survey

Kovandzic, Tomislav; Gertz, Gary Kleck Marc;
1998
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10. What methods are most frequently used in research in criminology and criminal justice?

Kleck, Gary; Tark, Jongyeon; Bellows, Jon J.;
2006
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