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200 00$aEvaluating gun policy$b[electronic resource] $eeffects on crime and violence /$fJens Ludwig, Philip J. Cook, editors
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aWashington, D.C. $cBrookings Institution Press$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (480 p.)
225 1 $aJames A. Johnson Metro Series
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; Foreword; 1 Pragmatic Gun Policy; Part I Gun Prevalence; 2 Guns and Suicide; 3 Guns and Burglary; Part II Regulating Ownership; 4 Australia: A Massive Buyback of Low- Risk Guns; 5 Disarming Batterers: The Impact of Domestic Violence Firearm Laws; Part III Restricting Gun Carrying; 6 Policing Crime Guns; 7 Prison Sentence Enhancements: The Case of Project Exile; 8 The Impact of Concealed- Carry Laws; Part IV Facilitating Research; 9 State and Federal Gun Laws: Trends for 1970  99; 10 Data on Violent Injury; Part V The Policy Process
327   $a11 Continuity and Change in the American Gun DebateContributors; Index
330   $aCompared with other developed nations, the United States is unique in its high rates of both gun ownership and murder. Although widespread gun ownership does not have much effect on the overall crime rate, gun use does make criminal violence more lethal and has a unique capacity to terrorize the public. Gun crime accounts for most of the costs of gun violence in the United States, which are on the order of 100 billion per year. But that is not the whole story. Guns also provide recreational benefits and sometimes are used virtuously in fending off or forestalling criminal attacks. Given that g
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