Current public health research on gun violence refers to its epidemiology; i.e., understanding where, when and how gun violence events take place. There is also a subset of this research which predates most of the epidemiological approaches to the problem that attempts to analyze the costs of...

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection between individual poverty and both property and violent crimes will arise, and moreover,...

Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang participation on individual criminal activity. One...