waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, alternation in power, social …

the number of illegal guns and decrease with social capital and police intensity. Using detailed panel data from the …, social capital, and police intensity consistent with our theoretical predictions. Based on our analysis, we derive a range of …

the number of illegal guns and decrease with social capital and police intensity. Using detailed panel data from the …, social capital, and police intensity consistent with our theoretical predictions. Based on our analysis, we derive a range of …

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 … percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by …

This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States ….g., passive voice, nominalization, intransitive verbs - that obfuscate responsibility for police killings compared to civilian … hold a police officer morally responsible for a killing and to demand penalties after reading a story that uses obfuscatory …

Federalism and international trade regulation are popular topics in the legal literature, but the intersection of these … of U.S. and Canadian federalism, and by considering the effect of these countries' federal structures on their …

Since the September 2001 terrorist attacks, security has became paramount in both domestic politics and the daily lives … a comprehensive port-security system and striking a balance between safety and commercial efficiency. This paper … presents an overview of the U.S. federal government's port security efforts to date, including new laws and regulations …