To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this … cartels and entrenched local governments, highlighting the role of political instability in mediating the gun-crime …

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical … the number of illegal guns and decrease with social capital and police intensity. Using detailed panel data from the …

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical … the number of illegal guns and decrease with social capital and police intensity. Using detailed panel data from the …

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this … cartels and entrenched local governments, highlighting the role of political instability in mediating the gun-crime …

of criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that a number of previous studies have failed … time series proxy problem is severe; previous panel data studies have used proxies that are essentially uncorrelated in … determined by a negative deterrent effect of noncriminal gun prevalence. The beneficiaries of the reduced level of violence may …

these laws may have for public safety, there has been little empirical investigation of their impact on crime and … your ground ; castle doctrine ; guns ; crime …

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 …

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

This paper asks whether social movements taking place on Twitter affect gender-based violence (GBV). Using Twitter data … link this data to weekly crime reports at the federal state level from the United States. We exploit the high … point out that Twitter tweets related to GBV lead to a decrease in reported crime rates. The evidence shows that …