Information de reference pour ce titreAccession Number: | 00002364-200015030-00003.
|
Author: | Azrael, David Hemenway Deborah
|
Institution: | Harvard Injury Control Research Center
|
Title: | |
Source: | Violence & Victims. 15(3):257-272, Fall 2000.
|
Abstract: | : Some controversy exists about the relative frequency of criminal and self-defense gun use in the United States. Using data from a national random-digit-dial telephone survey of over 1900 adults conducted in 1996, we find that criminal gun use is far more common than self-defense gun use. This result is consistent with findings from other private surveys and the National Crime Victimization Surveys. In this survey, all reported cases of criminal gun use and many cases of self-defense gun use appear to be socially undesirable. There are many instances of gun use, often for intimidation, that are not reported to the police and may not appear in official crime statistics.
(C) Copyright of Springer Publishing Company, 2000. All Rights Reserved.
|
References: | Cantor, D. (1989). Substantive implications of longitudinal design features, the National Crime Victimization Survey as a case study. In, D. Kasprzyk, Kalton, G., Duncan, G., Singh, M. P. (Eds.), Panel surveys. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
Cook, P. J., & Ludwig J. (1997). Guns in America. National Institute of Justice Report.
Cook, P. J., Ludwig J., & Hemenway D. (1997). The gun debate's new mythical number, HOW many defensive uses per year? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 16, 463-469.
Cooke, P. J., Ludwig, J. (1998). Defensive gun uses: New evidence from a National survey, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 14: 111-131.
Hemenway, D. (1997a). Survey research and self-defense gun use, An explanation of extreme overestimates. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 87, 1430-1445.
Hemenway D. (1997b). The myth of millions of annual self-defense gun uses, a case study of survey overestimates of rare events. Chance, 10, 6-10.
Hemenway D., & Azrael, D. (1997). Gun use in the United States, results of a national survey. Report to the National Institute of Justice. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice.
Kellermann, A. L., & Reay, D. T. (1986). Protection or peril? An analysis of firearm-related deaths in the home. New England Journal of Medicine, 314, 1557-1560.
Kellermann, A. L., Rivara, F. P., Rushforth, N. B., Banton, J. G., Redy, D. T., Francisco, J. T., Locci, A. B., Prodzinski, J., and Hackman, B. B., Somes, G. (1993). Gun ownership as a risk factor for homicide in the home. New England Journal of Medicine, 329, 1084-1091.
Kellermann, A. L., Somes, G., Rivara, P., Lee, R. K., & Banton, J. G. (1998). Injuries and deaths due firearms in the home. Journal of Trauma, 45, 263-267.
Kleck, G. (1997a). Struggling against 'common sense,' The pluses and minuses of gun control. The World and I, 287-299.
Kleck, G. (1997b). Targeting guns, firearms and their control. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
Kleck, G., & Gertz, M. (1998). Carrying guns for protection. Results from the National Self-Defense Survey. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 35(2), 193-224.
Kleck, G., & Gertz, M. (1997). The illegitimacy of one-sided speculation. Getting the defensive gun use estimate down. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 87, 1446-1461.
Kleck, G., & Gertz, M. (1995). Armed resistance to crime, The prevalence and nature of self-defense with a gun. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 86, 150-187.
McDowall, D. B., & Wiersema, D. (1994). The incidence of civilian defensive firearm use by U.S. crime victims. American Journal of Public Health, 84, 1982-1985.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. (1998). National crime victimization survey, 1986-1991, 1992-1995 (On-line). Available: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu,80/NA...- ouverture dans une nouvelle fenêtre.
Skogan, W. (1990). The national crime survey redesign. Public Opinion Quarterly, 54, 256-272.
|
Language: | English.
|
Document Type: | Articles.
|
ISSN: | 0886-6708
|
NLM Journal Code: | ayt, 8916436
|
Annotation(s) | |
|
|