More guns, less crime
Subtitle: understanding crime and gun-control laws
By: John R. Lott, Jr
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780226493664
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-434) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the third edition; title: Preface to the second edition; title: Preface to the first edition; title: Introduction; title: How to test the effects of gun control; title: Gun ownership, gun laws, and the data on crime; title: Concealed-handgun laws and crime rates: the empirical evidence; title: The victims and the benefits from protection; title: What determines arrest rates and the passage of concealed-handgun laws?; title: The political and academic debate; title: Some final thoughts; title: 1996 update; title: A decade later: thirty years of data and nine more states; title: Appendixes.