Evaluating gun policy : effects on crime and violence

Ludwig, Jens. (Added Author). Cook, Philip J., 1946- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0815753128 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 081575311X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
ix, 469 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Pragmatic Gun Policy / Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig -- 2. Guns and Suicide / Mark Duggan -- Comment / John Mullahy -- Comment / Karen Norberg -- 3. Guns and Burglary / Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig -- Comment / Bruce Sacerdote -- Comment / David B. Kopel -- 4. Australia: A Massive Buyback of Low-Risk Guns / Peter Reuter and Jenny Mouzos -- Comment / Anne Morrison Piehl -- Comment / Jim Leitzel -- 5. Disarming Batterers: The Impact of Domestic Violence Firearm Laws / Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor and James A. Mercy -- Comment / John H. Laub -- Comment / Garen J. Wintemute -- Comment / Brian A. Jacob -- 6. Policing Crime Guns / Jacqueline Cohen and Jens Ludwig -- Comment / Lawrence W. Sherman -- Comment / Jeffrey Fagan -- 7. Prison Sentence Enhancements: The Case of Project Exile / Steven Raphael and Jens Ludwig -- Comment / Steven D. Levitt -- Comment / Peter Greenwood -- 8. The Impact of Concealed-Carry Laws / John J. Donahue -- Comment / David B. Mustard -- Comment / Willard Manning -- 9. State and Federal Gun Laws: Trends for 1970-99 / Jon S. Vernick and Lisa M. Hepburn -- Comment / Franklin E. Zimring -- Comment / Mark A. R. Kleiman -- 10. Data on Violent Injury / Deborah Azrael, Catherine Barber, David Hemenway and Matthew Miller -- Comment / Alfred Blumstein -- Comment / David McDowall -- 11. Continuity and Change in the American Gun Debate / Franklin E. Zimring.