RT Article
T1 Time in Crime: An Added Dimension to the Study of Crime Guns
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 49
IS 5
SP 723
OP 744
A1 Dierenfeldt, Rick
A2 Drawve, Grant R. 1986-
A2 May, Joshua
A2 Jackson, Ellee
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1902801199
AB A growing body of literature has explored the ‘life course’ of crime guns, with particular focus on the time between initial point of sale of firearms and their eventual recovery by police following a crime. We contend that this examination is incomplete, with limited consideration given to the period between a firearm’s first known use in a criminal offense and its recovery by police—which we refer to as time in crime. Increased understanding of this time frame is important given that crime guns are frequently recirculated among criminally involved groups and the recent finding that time in circulation following first known use in a crime is a significant predictor of multiple uses of crime guns. We add to the literature through application of negative binomial regression to a sample of 310 crime guns used in offenses in a city in the Southeastern United States to examine how neighborhood context and initial incident characteristics influence the number of days that firearms remain in circulation after their first known use in a crime. We find that increased levels of concentrated disadvantage and gang involvement during the original incident correspond with significant increases in time in crime, while increased levels of residential stability and the ability of police to identify suspects are linked with more rapid recovery of crime guns. Notably, these findings hold even after inclusion of popular time to crime covariates, including firearm quality, caliber, and status as a stolen gun.
K1 Gangs
K1 Neighborhoods
K1 Gun crime
K1 NIBIN
K1 Crime guns
DO 10.1007/s12103-024-09769-5