NCJ Number
241654
Journal
American Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 37 Issue: 4 Dated: Winter 2012 Pages: 682-704
Date Published
2012
Length
23 pages
Annotation
This research examines the relationship between gun availability and homicide.
Abstract
This paper had two objectives. First, to examine the association between gun availability, gun homicide, and homicide in a manner that better accounts for potential simultaneity than previous cross-national research. Second, to examine the manner that the relationship between gun availability and violence is shaped by socio-historical and cultural context. The results lend little support to the notion that gun availability operates uniformly across nations to influence levels of violence. Rather, these results suggest that the nature of the relationship between gun availability and violence is shaped by the socio-historical and cultural processes occurring across nations.