RT Article
T1 Reassessing the Association between Gun Availability and Homicide at the Cross-National Level
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 37
IS 4
SP 682
OP 704
A1 Altheimer, Irshad
A1 Boswell, Matthew
A2 Boswell, Matthew
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764202317
AB This paper had two objectives. First, to examine the association between gun availability, gun homicide, and homicide in a manner that better accounts for potential simultaneity than previous cross-national research. Second, to examine the manner that the relationship between gun availability and violence is shaped by socio-historical and cultural context. The results lend little support to the notion that gun availability operates uniformly across nations to influence levels of violence. Rather, these results suggest that the nature of the relationship between gun availability and violence is shaped by the socio-historical and cultural processes occurring across nations.
K1 Comparative
K1 Cross-national
K1 Homicide
K1 Gun availability
DO 10.1007/s12103-011-9147-x