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 Author Name: John R. Lott, Jr.
Title: MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME: UNDERSTANDING CRIME & GUN CONTROL LAWS
Binding: Paperback
Type: BOOK
Publisher: UNIVERSITY CHICAGO PRESS
ISBN Number: 0226493644 / 9780226493640
Seller ID: 1136366
The most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics & right-to-carry laws. This timely & provocative work comes to the startling conclusion: more guns mean less crime. 34 line drawings, 226 pgs.
'Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime' Or does it simply cause more citizens to harm each other' Directly challenging common perceptions about gun control, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws. This timely and provocative work comes to the startling conclusion: more guns mean less crime. In this paperback edition, Lott has expanded the research through 1996, incorporating new data available from states that passed right-to-carry and other gun laws since the book's publication as well as new city-level statistics.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
"Lott's pro-gun argument has to be examined on the merits, and its chief merit is lots of data. . . . If you still disagree with Lott, at least you will know what will be required to rebut a case that looks pretty near bulletproof."
--Peter Coy, Business Week
"By providing strong empirical evidence that yet another liberal policy is a cause of the very evil it purports to cure, he has permanently changed the terms of debate on gun control. . . . Lott's book could hardly be more timely. . . . A model of the meticulous application of economics and statistics to law and policy."
--John O. McGinnis, National Review
"His empirical analysis sets a standard that will be difficult to match. . . . This has got to be the most extensive empirical study of crime deterrence that has been done to date."
--Public Choice
"For anyone with an open mind on either side of this subject this book will provide a thorough grounding. It is also likely to be the standard reference on the subject for years to come."
--Stan Liebowitz, Dallas Morning News
"A compelling book with enough hard evidence that even politicians may have to stop and pay attention. More Guns, Less Crime is an exhaustive analysis of the effect of gun possession on crime rates."
--James Bovard, Wall Street Journal
"John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful, scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue."
--Milton Friedman
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface
1: Introduction
2: How to Test the Effects of Gun Control
3: Gun Ownership, Gun Laws, and the Data on Crime
4: Concealed-Handgun Laws and Crime Rates: The Empirical Evidence
5: The Victims and the Benefits from Protection
6: What Determines Arrest Rates and the Passage of Concealed-Handgun Laws'
7: The Political and Academic Debate
8: Some Final Thoughts
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
SUBJECTS:
Law and Legal Studies: General Legal Studies
Law and Legal Studies: Law and Society
Economics and Business: Economics--General Theory and Principles
Sociology: Criminology, Delinquency, Social Control
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