In most societies, a small number of people commit the most serious violence. Short-term studies have shown that … violence, especially when policymakers are searching for alternatives to aggressive policing and incarceration …

Gun violence is the most pressing public safety problem in American cities. We report results from a randomized … referral methods identified men with strikingly high scope for gun violence reduction: for every 100 people in the control … in an index combining three measures of serious violence, the study's primary outcome. But one component, shooting and …

Did anti-Asian violence rise after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic? Efforts to answer this question are compromised … studying whether anti-Asian violence rose after March 2020 that addresses each of these concerns. Using data from the FBI …'s National Incident-Based Reporting System, we study inter-race violence occurring in public spaces. While public violence …

percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by … to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …

Violence Archive suggests that defensive gun use (DGU) by crime victims may decrease the probability of their injury or death …We study the opposing deterrent and enabling effects of guns carried by law-abiding citizens on violent crime, using … commensurate increase in the incidence and lethality of crime. In summary, our analysis supports the conclusion that the widespread …