RT Article
T1 Measuring Civilian Defensive Firearm Use: A Methodological Experiment
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 16
IS 1
SP 1
OP 19
A1 McDowall, David 1949-
A2 Loftin, Colin
A2 Presser, Stanley 1950-
LA English
YR 2000
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764279662
AB Estimates of the incidence of victim gun use from the National CrimeVictimization Survey (NCVS) are consistently lower than are those fromother studies. To examine the divergence, we conducted a survey that gaugedthe impact of methodological differences between the NCVS and the otherstudies. For half of the sample, we asked questions from the NCVS, followedby questions from the other surveys. For the other half of the sample, wepresented the questions in the reverse order. We examined two hypotheses:(1) survey methods account for the divergent results, and (2) the questionscover unrelated activities. The results provided some support for the firsthypothesis, but respondents also reported many more defenses to thequestions from the other surveys than to the NCVS questions. Consistent withthe second hypothesis, this suggests that the NCVS and the other surveysmeasure responses to largely different provocations.
K1 crossover designs
K1 experimental designs
K1 Survey Research
K1 Firearms
K1 defensive gun use
DO 10.1023/A:1007588410221