Measuring Civilian Defensive Firearm Use: A Methodological Experiment

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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 hal...

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Authors: McDowall, David 1949- (Author) ; Loftin, Colin (Author) ; Presser, Stanley 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2000
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2000, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-19
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Keywords:
crossover designs
experimental designs
Survey Research
Firearms
defensive gun use