This paper presents the first attempt to estimate the benefits of reducing crime using the contingent-valuation (CV …) method. We focus on gun violence, a crime of growing policy concern in America. Our data come from a national survey in which …

violent crime levels and law leads to attain significance or alter estimated law coefficients, and larger coefficient …

literature on the economics of crime. The main objective of this paper is twofold: to extend the "market for offenses model" to … deal with both "product" and "factor" markets, and to apply it to the case where guns are used for crime commission by … offenders and for self-protection by potential victims. Our analysis offers new insights about the association between crime and …

in the context of the gun trafficking market. Using gun tracing data, which identify the source state for crime guns …

empirical investigation of their impact on crime and victimization. In this paper, we use monthly data from the U.S. Vital …

-defense in this way deters crime or, alternatively, increases homicide. To do so, we apply a difference-in-differences research …

This paper examines the relationship between gun ownership and crime. Previous research has suffered from a lack of … murders in which a gun is used. The effect of gun ownership on all other crime categories is much less marked. Recent … on crime, and reject the hypothesis that these laws led to increases in gun ownership or reductions in criminal activity …