Firearms and violence : a critical review / / Committee to Improve Research Information and Data on Firearms ; Charles F. Wellford, John V. Pepper, and Carol V. Petrie, editors ; Committee on Law and Justice, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 328 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Data for measuring firearms violence and ownership
  • Firearms, injury, and crime
  • Interventions aimed at illegal firearm acquisition
  • The use of guns to defend against criminals
  • Right-to-carry laws
  • Firearms and suicide
  • Firearm injury prevention programs
  • Criminal justice interventions to reduce gun violence.