The Effect of Massachusetts' Gun Control Law On Gun-Related Crimes in the City of Boston

The Effect of Massachusetts' Gun Control Law On Gun-Related Crimes in the City of Boston

The impact on gun-related crime of legislative changes involving Massachusetts' Gun Control Law is evaluated. Viewing crime rates as realizations from some underlying stochastic processes, a procedure for measuring intervention effects on crime rates is presented. Time series on gun-related cri...

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Veröffentlicht in:Evaluation Quarterly 1977-11, Vol.1 (4), p.543-568
Hauptverfasser: Deutsch, Stuart Jay, Alt, Francis B.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Boston, Massachusetts
Crime Prevention
Crime Rates
Deterrence
Gun Control
Legislation
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Zusammenfassung:The impact on gun-related crime of legislative changes involving Massachusetts' Gun Control Law is evaluated. Viewing crime rates as realizations from some underlying stochastic processes, a procedure for measuring intervention effects on crime rates is presented. Time series on gun-related crimes for the city of Boston are analyzed with this procedure in evaluating the impact of the gun control law.
ISSN:0193-841X
0145-4692
1552-3926
DOI:10.1177/0193841X7700100402