More guns, less crime : understanding crime and gun-control laws / John R. Lott, Jr.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lott, John R., Jr., 1958-
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States.
Firearms and crime > United States.
Physical Description:xii, 442 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface to the third edition
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Preface to the first edition
  • Introduction
  • How to test the effects of gun control
  • Gun ownership, gun laws, and the data on crime
  • Concealed-handgun laws and crime rates: the empirical evidence
  • The victims and the benefits from protection
  • What determines arrest rates and the passage of concealed-handgun laws?
  • The political and academic debate by 1998
  • Some final thoughts (1998)
  • Updating the results in 2000
  • A decade later: nine more years of data and nine more states
  • Appendixes.