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ITT/Terry Sanford Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy Studies
Sanford School of Public Policy
pcook@duke.edu
Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708-0245
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Explaining the Extraordinary Decline in Chicago’s Homicide Arrest Rates, 1965 to 1994 and Beyond: Trends in Case Mix Versus Standards for Arrest

Journal Article Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice · February 1, 2024 Chicago’s homicide arrest rate dropped from 91% in 1965 to 57% in 1994 and dropped still lower in recent years. This pattern mirrors the trend in the national homicide clearance rate. A plausible explanation for this great decline is the trend in homicide ... Full text Cite

The Sixty-Year Trajectory of Homicide Clearance Rates: Toward a Better Understanding of the Great Decline

Journal Article Annual Review of Criminology · January 26, 2024 In 1962, the FBI reported a national homicide clearance rate of 93%. That rate dropped 29 points by 1994. This Great Decline has been studied and accepted as a real phenomenon but remains mysterious, as does the period of relative stability that followed. ... Full text Cite

Sibling Spillovers: Having an Academically Successful Older Sibling May be More Important for Children in Disadvantaged Families.

Journal Article AJS; American journal of sociology · March 2023 This paper examines causal sibling spillover effects among students from different family backgrounds in elementary and middle school. Family backgrounds are captured by race, household structure, mothers' educational attainment, and school poverty. Exploi ... Full text Cite

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes among Adolescents

Journal Article American Economic Review · March 1, 2023 Improving academic outcomes for economically disadvantaged students has proven challenging, particularly for children at older ages. We present two large-scale randomized controlled trials of a high-dosage tutoring program delivered to secondary school stu ... Full text Cite

Policing gun violence: Strategic reforms for controlling our most pressing crime problem

Book · January 19, 2023 This book makes the case that increasing the effectiveness of the police in gun-violence prevention is both possible and essential. It is essential because in many cities, gun violence is the most pressing crime problem, making cities less liveable and neg ... Full text Cite

The emerging infrastructure of US firearms injury data.

Journal Article Preventive medicine · December 2022 For every fatal shooting in the United States, detailed information from reports of coroners or medical examiners, police departments, and other sources is recorded in the National Violent Death Reporting System. There is no such system in place for nonfat ... Full text Cite

Correcting Misinformation on Firearms Injuries.

Journal Article JAMA network open · December 2022 Full text Open Access Cite

Sequestration of a dual function DNA-binding protein by Vibrio cholerae CRP.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · November 2022 Although the mechanism by which the cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) regulates global gene transcription has been intensively studied for decades, new discoveries remain to be made. Here, we report that, during rapid growth, CRP associates with both the w ... Full text Cite

Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence

Journal Article Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · November 1, 2022 The police have the unique capacity to preempt and deter violence and to reduce the use of firearms in violent encounters. But overly aggressive policing tactics have contributed to a fraught relationship with low-income minority communities in which gun v ... Full text Cite

Early life lead exposure from private well water increases juvenile delinquency risk among US teens.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · February 2022 Early life exposure to environmental lead (Pb) has been linked to decreased IQ, behavior problems, lower lifetime earnings, and increased criminal activity. Beginning in the 1970s, limits on Pb in paint, gasoline, food cans, and regulated water utilities s ... Full text Cite

Underground Gun Markets and the Flow of Illegal Guns into the Bronx and Brooklyn: A Mixed Methods Analysis.

Journal Article Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · October 2021 New York City (NYC) has experienced large reductions in violent crime over the last two decades, but gun-related violence continues to pose a threat to public safety. Despite strong gun laws, high-risk individuals in NYC neighborhoods are unfortunately sti ... Full text Cite

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents

Journal Article University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper · March 11, 2021 Cite

Gunshot-victim cooperation with police investigations: Results from the Chicago Inmate Survey.

Journal Article Preventive medicine · February 2021 Just one in ten nonfatal shootings in Chicago lead to an arrest. Unlike in fatal cases, gunshot victims who survive can often provide information of use in the police investigation. Nonetheless, nonfatal shooting cases in Chicago and elsewhere have much lo ... Full text Cite

Clearing gang- and drug-involved nonfatal shootings

Journal Article Policing · January 1, 2021 Purpose: Clearance rates for nonfatal shootings, especially cases involving gang- and drug-related violence, are disturbingly low in many US cities. Using data from a previously completed project in Boston, we explore the prospects for improving gang/drug ... Full text Cite

More and better video evidence for police investigations of shootings: Chicago's area technology centers

Journal Article Policing · January 1, 2021 Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe the creation, implementation, activities and rationale for the Area Technology Centers (ATCs), an innovation adopted by the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD’s) Bureau of Detectives (BoD) in 2019 for the pur ... Full text Cite

Thinking about gun violence

Journal Article Criminology and Public Policy · November 1, 2020 The Stockholm Prize for 2020 was awarded for research on gun violence and its prevention, and recognizes the growing depth and scope of this field. I am honored to be a co-recipient, together with Franklin E. Zimring. This essay focuses on three of the top ... Full text Cite

Children drinking private well water have higher blood lead than those with city water.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2020 Although the Flint, Michigan, water crisis renewed concerns about lead (Pb) in city drinking water, little attention has been paid to Pb in private wells, which provide drinking water for 13% of the US population. This study evaluates the risk of Pb exposu ... Full text Cite

Explaining the Extraordinary Decline in Chicago’s Homicide Arrest Rates, 1965 to 1994 and Beyond: Trends in Case Mix Versus Standards for Arrest

Journal Article Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice · February 1, 2024 Chicago’s homicide arrest rate dropped from 91% in 1965 to 57% in 1994 and dropped still lower in recent years. This pattern mirrors the trend in the national homicide clearance rate. A plausible explanation for this great decline is the trend in homicide ... Full text Cite

The Sixty-Year Trajectory of Homicide Clearance Rates: Toward a Better Understanding of the Great Decline

Journal Article Annual Review of Criminology · January 26, 2024 In 1962, the FBI reported a national homicide clearance rate of 93%. That rate dropped 29 points by 1994. This Great Decline has been studied and accepted as a real phenomenon but remains mysterious, as does the period of relative stability that followed. ... Full text Cite

Sibling Spillovers: Having an Academically Successful Older Sibling May be More Important for Children in Disadvantaged Families.

Journal Article AJS; American journal of sociology · March 2023 This paper examines causal sibling spillover effects among students from different family backgrounds in elementary and middle school. Family backgrounds are captured by race, household structure, mothers' educational attainment, and school poverty. Exploi ... Full text Cite

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes among Adolescents

Journal Article American Economic Review · March 1, 2023 Improving academic outcomes for economically disadvantaged students has proven challenging, particularly for children at older ages. We present two large-scale randomized controlled trials of a high-dosage tutoring program delivered to secondary school stu ... Full text Cite

Policing gun violence: Strategic reforms for controlling our most pressing crime problem

Book · January 19, 2023 This book makes the case that increasing the effectiveness of the police in gun-violence prevention is both possible and essential. It is essential because in many cities, gun violence is the most pressing crime problem, making cities less liveable and neg ... Full text Cite

The emerging infrastructure of US firearms injury data.

Journal Article Preventive medicine · December 2022 For every fatal shooting in the United States, detailed information from reports of coroners or medical examiners, police departments, and other sources is recorded in the National Violent Death Reporting System. There is no such system in place for nonfat ... Full text Cite

Correcting Misinformation on Firearms Injuries.

Journal Article JAMA network open · December 2022 Full text Open Access Cite

Sequestration of a dual function DNA-binding protein by Vibrio cholerae CRP.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · November 2022 Although the mechanism by which the cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) regulates global gene transcription has been intensively studied for decades, new discoveries remain to be made. Here, we report that, during rapid growth, CRP associates with both the w ... Full text Cite

Prevention Strategies for Policing Gun Violence

Journal Article Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · November 1, 2022 The police have the unique capacity to preempt and deter violence and to reduce the use of firearms in violent encounters. But overly aggressive policing tactics have contributed to a fraught relationship with low-income minority communities in which gun v ... Full text Cite

Early life lead exposure from private well water increases juvenile delinquency risk among US teens.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · February 2022 Early life exposure to environmental lead (Pb) has been linked to decreased IQ, behavior problems, lower lifetime earnings, and increased criminal activity. Beginning in the 1970s, limits on Pb in paint, gasoline, food cans, and regulated water utilities s ... Full text Cite

Underground Gun Markets and the Flow of Illegal Guns into the Bronx and Brooklyn: A Mixed Methods Analysis.

Journal Article Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · October 2021 New York City (NYC) has experienced large reductions in violent crime over the last two decades, but gun-related violence continues to pose a threat to public safety. Despite strong gun laws, high-risk individuals in NYC neighborhoods are unfortunately sti ... Full text Cite

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents

Journal Article University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper · March 11, 2021 Cite

Gunshot-victim cooperation with police investigations: Results from the Chicago Inmate Survey.

Journal Article Preventive medicine · February 2021 Just one in ten nonfatal shootings in Chicago lead to an arrest. Unlike in fatal cases, gunshot victims who survive can often provide information of use in the police investigation. Nonetheless, nonfatal shooting cases in Chicago and elsewhere have much lo ... Full text Cite

Clearing gang- and drug-involved nonfatal shootings

Journal Article Policing · January 1, 2021 Purpose: Clearance rates for nonfatal shootings, especially cases involving gang- and drug-related violence, are disturbingly low in many US cities. Using data from a previously completed project in Boston, we explore the prospects for improving gang/drug ... Full text Cite

More and better video evidence for police investigations of shootings: Chicago's area technology centers

Journal Article Policing · January 1, 2021 Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe the creation, implementation, activities and rationale for the Area Technology Centers (ATCs), an innovation adopted by the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD’s) Bureau of Detectives (BoD) in 2019 for the pur ... Full text Cite

Thinking about gun violence

Journal Article Criminology and Public Policy · November 1, 2020 The Stockholm Prize for 2020 was awarded for research on gun violence and its prevention, and recognizes the growing depth and scope of this field. I am honored to be a co-recipient, together with Franklin E. Zimring. This essay focuses on three of the top ... Full text Cite

Children drinking private well water have higher blood lead than those with city water.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2020 Although the Flint, Michigan, water crisis renewed concerns about lead (Pb) in city drinking water, little attention has been paid to Pb in private wells, which provide drinking water for 13% of the US population. This study evaluates the risk of Pb exposu ... Full text Cite

Girls to the front: How redshirting and test-score gaps are affected by a change in the school-entry cut date

Journal Article Economics of Education Review · June 1, 2020 Most states have moved their public-school-entry cut date forward in recent years. In North Carolina the latest date by which a matriculant must turn 5 was recently changed from October 16th to August 31st. Those born in between the old and new cut dates ( ... Full text Cite

Kidney Donation and the Consent of the Poor

Journal Article Loyola Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

The Last Link: from Gun Acquisition to Criminal Use.

Journal Article Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · October 2019 Guns that are used in crime and recovered by the police typically have changed hands often since first retail sale and are quite old. While there is an extensive literature on "time to crime" for guns, defined as the elapsed time from first retail sale to ... Full text Cite

UNDERSTANDING GUN VIOLENCE: PUBLIC HEALTH VS. PUBLIC POLICY

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · June 1, 2019 Full text Cite

RESPONSE TO COUNTERPOINT: VIOLENCE ITSELF IS A ROOT CAUSE OF VIOLENCE

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · June 1, 2019 Full text Cite

The social costs of gun ownership: a reply to Hayo, Neumeier, and Westphal

Journal Article Empirical Economics · January 15, 2019 We respond to the new article by Hayo, Neumeier, and Westphal (HNW), which is a critique of our 2006 article. The principal contribution of that article was to use a greatly improved proxy for gun prevalence to estimate the effect of gun prevalence on homi ... Full text Cite

Proactive Policing: a Summary of the Report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Journal Article Asian Journal of Criminology · January 1, 2019 This paper provides a summary of our report for the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on proactive policing. We find that there is sufficient scientific evidence to support the adoption of many proactive policing practices if the prim ... Full text Cite

Why do gun murders have a higher clearance rate than gunshot assaults?

Journal Article Criminology and Public Policy · January 1, 2019 Research Summary: The prevailing view is that follow-up investigations are of limited value as crimes are primarily cleared by patrol officers making on-scene arrests and through the presence of eyewitnesses and forensic evidence at the initial crime scene ... Full text Cite

Expanding the Public Health Approach to Gun Violence Prevention.

Journal Article Annals of internal medicine · November 2018 Full text Cite

The association of firearm caliber with likelihood of death from gunshot injury in criminal assaults

Journal Article JAMA Network Open · July 27, 2018 Importance A foundational issue in firearms policy has been whether the type of weapon used in an assault affects the likelihood of death.Objective To determine whether the likelihood of death from gunshot wounds inflicted in criminal assaults is associate ... Full text Link to item Cite

Gun Theft and Crime.

Journal Article Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · June 2018 Some law enforcement officials and other observers have asserted that theft is the primary source of guns to crime. In fact, the role of theft in supplying the guns used in robbery, assault, and murder is unknown, and current evidence provides little guida ... Full text Cite

Suicide and Additional Homicides Associated with Intimate Partner Homicide: North Carolina 2004-2013.

Journal Article Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · June 2018 Intimate partner homicide (IPH) is a critical public health and safety issue in the USA. In this study, we determine the prevalence and correlates of perpetrator suicide and additional homicides following intimate partner homicide (IPH) in a large, diverse ... Full text Cite

Challenge of Firearms Control in a Free Society

Journal Article Criminology and Public Policy · May 1, 2018 Chapter 10 of The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society, titled “Control of Firearms,” is a brief but strong statement in support of regulating gun transactions, possession, and carrying, with several specific recommendations, including the adoption of univ ... Full text Cite

Gun markets

Journal Article Annual Review of Criminology · January 1, 2018 The systematic study of how available weapons influence the rates, patterns, and outcomes of criminal violence is new, but it is now a well-established and fast-growing subfield in criminology, legal studies, public health, and economics. This review focus ... Full text Cite

If We Pay Football Players, Why Not Kidney Donors?

Journal Article Regulation · 2018 Ethicists who oppose compensating kidney donors claim they do so because kidney donation is risky for the donor’s health, donors may not appreciate the risks and may be cognitively biased in other ways, and donors may come from disadvantaged groups and thu ... Link to item Cite

Foreword

Book · January 1, 2018 Full text Cite

From Parents to Peers: Trajectories in Sources of Academic Influence Grades 4 to 8

Journal Article Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis · December 1, 2017 Prior research and anecdotal evidence from educators suggest that classroom peers play a meaningful role in how students learn. However, the literature has failed to consider the dynamic and context-dependent nature of classroom peer influence. Development ... Full text Cite

Cook et al. Respond.

Journal Article American journal of public health · December 2017 Full text Cite

A new program to prevent primary school absenteeism: Results of a pilot study in five schools

Journal Article Children and Youth Services Review · November 1, 2017 Frequent absences in the primary grades are associated with school disengagement, academic failure, and eventual dropout. The Early Truancy Prevention Project (ETPP) was designed to improve attendance of primary-grade children by facilitating communication ... Full text Cite

Constant Lethality of Gunshot Injuries From Firearm Assault: United States, 2003-2012.

Journal Article American journal of public health · August 2017 ObjectivesTo investigate the validity of the apparent downward trend in the national case-fatality rate for gunshot wounds from assault.MethodsWe reanalyzed the estimated annual number of nonfatal firearm injuries the National Electronic ... Full text Cite

The demand and supply of criminal opportunities

Chapter · July 5, 2017 Criminal opportunity theory provides a framework for examining the interaction between potential offenders and potential victims. Criminals' behavior influences the nature and amount of self-protective measures taken by potential victims, and changes in se ... Cite

Deadly force.

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · February 2017 Full text Cite

Behavioral Science Critique of HOPE

Journal Article Criminology and Public Policy · November 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Epidemiologic Evidence to Guide the Understanding and Prevention of Gun Violence.

Journal Article Epidemiologic reviews · January 2016 Gunfire from assaults, suicides, and unintentional shootings exacts an enormous burden on public health globally. The epidemiologic reviews in this special issue enhance our understanding of various forms of gun violence, inform interventions, and help cha ... Full text Cite

Will the Current Crisis in Police Legitimacy Increase Crime? Research Offers a Way Forward.

Journal Article Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society · December 2015 Full text Cite

Sources of guns to dangerous people: what we learn by asking them.

Journal Article Preventive medicine · October 2015 Gun violence exacts a lethal toll on public health. This paper focuses on reducing access to firearms by dangerous offenders, contributing original empirical data on the gun transactions that arm offenders in Chicago. Conducted in the fall of 2013, analysi ... Full text Cite

An Experimental Evaluation of a Comprehensive Employment-Oriented Prisoner Re-entry Program

Journal Article Journal of Quantitative Criminology · September 24, 2015 Objectives: While the economic model of crime suggests that improving post-prison labor market prospects should reduce recidivism, evaluations of previous employment-oriented re-entry programs have mixed results, possibly due to the multi-faceted challenge ... Full text Cite

Some sources of crime guns in Chicago: Dirty dealers, straw purchasers, and traffickers

Journal Article The Journal of criminal law & criminology · 2015 Cite

Public opinion concerning residential sprinkler systems for 1- and 2-family homes.

Journal Article Injury epidemiology · January 2015 BackgroundResidential sprinkler systems (RSS) are one intervention to prevent fire injury and death, yet there is no literature documenting why RSS homeowners opt to purchase a sprinkler-equipped home. This manuscript describes homeowners' decisio ... Full text Cite

A Primer on Kidney Transplantation: Anatomy of the Shortage

Journal Article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2014 Link to item Cite

Foreword: Organs and Inducements

Journal Article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2014 Link to item Cite

The great american gun war: Notes from four decades in the trenches

Journal Article Crime and Justice · December 26, 2013 In this essay I provide an account of how research on gun violence has evolved over the last four decades, intertwined with personal observations and commentary on my contributions. It begins with a sketch of the twentieth century history of gun control in ... Full text Cite

Winner-Take-All Markets

Journal Article Studies in Microeconomics · December 1, 2013 In recent decades, explosive growth in the salaries of top earners, combined with income stagnation or decline for most others, has formed a renewed challenge to the claim that a free market serves the public interest. These trends lend new urgency to unde ... Full text Cite

How we can reduce gun violence?

Other Chronicle of Higher Education · January 8, 2013 Cite

Crime Economics in Its Fifth Decade

Conference LESSONS FROM THE ECONOMICS OF CRIME: WHAT REDUCES OFFENDING? · January 1, 2013 Link to item Cite

The limited impact of the brady act: Evaluation and implications

Chapter · January 1, 2013 Federal firearms law divides the population into two groups: those prohibited from legally possessing a firearm due to their criminal record or certain other disqualifying conditions and everyone else. The vast majority of the adult public is allowed to ac ... Cite

The virtuous tax: lifesaving and crime-prevention effects of the 1991 federal alcohol-tax increase.

Journal Article Journal of health economics · January 2013 The last time that federal excise taxes on alcoholic beverages were increased was 1991. The changes were larger than the typical state-level changes that have been used to study price effects, but the consequences have not been assessed due to the lack of ... Full text Cite

Gun Point

Other Times of India - Education Times · December 24, 2012 Cite

Interpreting the empirical evidence on illegal gun market dynamics.

Journal Article Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · October 2012 Thousands of Americans are killed by gunfire each year, and hundreds of thousands more are injured or threatened with guns in robberies and assaults. The burden of gun violence in urban areas is particularly high. Critics suggest that the results of firear ... Full text Cite

Firearm Violence

Chapter · September 18, 2012 This article begins by characterizing the nature and scope of the gun violence problem, including a discussion of the potential benefit from use of guns in self-defense. The next section is devoted to a discussion of guns and it gives some basic facts on t ... Full text Cite

Robbery

Chapter · September 18, 2012 This article provides a description of trends and patterns in robbery using police statistics and statistics from crime surveys. The focus is on data of robbery rate trends for the United States, which is the most established of the national crime surveys. ... Full text Cite

Drug policy research

Journal Article ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · September 1, 2012 Link to item Cite

Lessons from a partially controlled field trial

Journal Article Journal of Experimental Criminology · September 1, 2012 Objectives: Using the case of an on-going work-oriented prisoner-reentry experiment in Milwaukee, describe the challenges of organizing and sustaining a high-quality trial in the field in which only the randomization and data analysis are directly "control ... Full text Cite

Craig Whitney's Living With Guns

Other New York Times · August 26, 2012 Cite

Evidence from a high-income country.

Journal Article Addiction (Abingdon, England) · August 2012 Full text Cite

Lessons from the Economics of Crime

Journal Article · July 29, 2012 Cite

Alcohol retail privatization: a commentary.

Journal Article American journal of preventive medicine · April 2012 Full text Cite

Schools and Prevention

Chapter · March 12, 2012 Student misbehavior, which includes school violence and bullying, interfere with academic achievements and is one of the major sources of teacher turnover in American schools. This article shows how schools can be organized and managed in order to minimize ... Full text Cite

Foreword

Chapter · January 1, 2012 We need this new field of experimental criminology. The design of cost-effective policy requires good evidence on what works well and, equally important, what doesn’t. Intuition, casual observation, and good intentions are not enough. The exceptional case, ... Full text Cite

The Gambler's Fallacy in Lottery Play

Chapter · 2012 The -gambler's fallacy- is the belief that the probability of an event is lowered when that event has recently occurred, even though the probability of the event is objectively known to be independent from one trial to the next. ... Cite

Q&A on Firearms Availability, Carrying, and Misuse

Journal Article Government, Law and Policy Journal · 2012 Cite

The Overall Effect of the Business Cycle on Crime

Journal Article German Economic Review · January 1, 2012 This paper analyses the 13 business cycles since 1933 to provide evidence on the old question of whether recessions cause crime. Using data from the United States, we find that recessions are consistently associated with an uptick in burglary and robbery, ... Full text Cite

More prisoners vs. more crime is the wrong question

Other Brookings Policy Brief · December 2011 Cite

The Economist's guide to crime busting

Journal Article The Wilson Quarterly · December 2011 Cite

Post-Heller Strategies to reduce gun violence

Journal Article Journal of Catholic Social Thought · December 2011 Cite

Taxing sin and saving lives: Can alcohol taxation reduce female homicides?

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · July 2011 With costs exceeding $5.8 billion per year, violence against women has significant ramifications for victims, their families, the health care systems that treat them, and the employers who depend on their labor. Prior research has found that alcohol abuse ... Full text Cite

Paying the tab: The costs and benefits of alcohol control

Journal Article Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control · June 27, 2011 What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family strife, crime, violence, poor health, and squandered hum ... Cite

Paying the tab: The costs and benefits of alcohol control

Journal Article Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control · June 27, 2011 What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family strife, crime, violence, poor health, and squandered hum ... Cite

Public Safety through Private Action: An Economic Assessment of BIDs

Journal Article Economic Journal · May 1, 2011 Private actions to avoid and prevent criminal victimisation and assist public law enforcement are vital inputs into the crime-control process. One form of private action, the business improvement district (BID), appears particularly promising. A BID is a n ... Full text Cite

Co-Production in deterring crime

Journal Article Criminology & Public Policy · February 2011 Cite

How to cut gun death toll

Other CNN.com · January 12, 2011 Cite

Economical Crime Control

Scholarly Edition · November 2010 Cite

Property crimes - yes; violence - no: Comment on Lauritsen and Heimer

Journal Article Criminology & Public Policy · November 2010 Cite

Percutaneous balloon angioplasty for acute occlusion of intracranial arteries.

Journal Article Neurosurgery · September 2010 BACKGROUND: The benefits of intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke are still limited. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of double-lumen balloon catheter-based reperfusion therapy with or without intra-arterial thrombolysis for acut ... Full text Link to item Cite

Five myths about gun control

Other Washington Post · June 13, 2010 Cite

Gun Control

Chapter · 2010 Cite

School crime control and prevention

Journal Article Crime and Justice · January 1, 2010 School violence, drug use, vandalism, gang activity, bullying, and theft are costly and interfere with academic achievement. Fortunately, crime victimization in schools for students and teachers followed the downward trend in national crime rates during th ... Full text Cite

Potential savings from abolition of the death penalty in North Carolina

Journal Article American Law and Economics Review · December 11, 2009 Despite the long-term decline in the number of death sentences and the lack of executions, the cost of the death penalty in North Carolina remains high. To document this cost, the empirical analysis here focuses on a recent two-year period, comparing actua ... Full text Cite

Comment on "explaining change and stasis in alcohol consumption"

Journal Article Addiction Research and Theory · November 27, 2009 Full text Cite

The Economics of Crime: An Introduction to Rational Crime Analysis.

Journal Article JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE · September 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

The illicit firearms trade in North America

Journal Article Criminology and Criminal Justice · August 1, 2009 Gun violence in North American is the subject of much speculation and debate, often based on limited or incomplete empirical evidence. We summarize the regulatory frameworks in Mexico, the United States and Canada, and provide statistics on gun misuse in t ... Full text Cite

Gun control after Heller: Threats and sideshows from a social welfare perspective

Journal Article UCLA Law Review · June 1, 2009 What will happen after District of Columbia v. Heller? We know that five justices on the Supreme Court now oppose comprehensive federal prohibitions on home handgun possession by some class of trustworthy homeowners for the purpose of, and maybe only at th ... Cite

Crime Control in the City: A Research-Based Briefing on Public and Private Measures

Journal Article Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research · March 2009 Cite

Explaining the growth in the prison population

Conference Criminology and Public Policy · February 2009 Cite

Crime: Crime in the city

Conference · January 5, 2009 Cite

Crime in the city

Journal Article · January 5, 2009 Cite

Crime

Chapter · 2009 Cite

Robbery

Chapter · 2009 Cite

Firearms Violence

Chapter · 2009 Cite

Robbery

Chapter · 2009 Cite

Potential savings from abolition of the death penalty in North Carolina

Journal Article American Law and Economics Review · 2009 Despite the long-term decline in the number of death sentences and the lack of executions, the cost of the death penalty in North Carolina remains high. To document this cost, the empirical analysis here focuses on a recent two-year period, comparing actua ... Cite

The negative impacts of starting middle school in sixth grade

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · December 1, 2008 Using administrative data on public school students in North Carolina, we find that sixth grade students attending middle schools are much more likely to be cited for discipline problems than those attending elementary school. That difference remains after ... Full text Cite

Will wider availability of guns improve public safety? No

Other CQ Researcher · October 31, 2008 Cite

Cigarette taxes and youth smoking: new evidence from national, state, and local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys.

Journal Article Journal of health economics · March 2008 Several studies have examined the effects of state cigarette tax increases on youth substance use over the 1990s, with most--but not all--finding that higher taxes reduce youth consumption of tobacco. We advance the literature by using data from the 1991 t ... Full text Cite

Assessing Urban Crime and its Control: An Overview

Scholarly Edition · February 2008 Cite

Drinking and Schooling

Chapter · 2008 Cite

A Free Lunch

Journal Article Journal of Drug Policy Analysis · 2008 Cite

Distinguishing spurious and real peer effects: Evidence from artificial societies, small-group experiments, and real schoolyards

Journal Article Review of Law and Economics · January 1, 2008 In a variety of important domains, there is considerable correlational evidence suggestive of what are variously referred to as social norm effects, contagion effects, information cascades, or peer effects. It is difficult to statistically identify whether ... Full text Cite

Half-cocked

Journal Article Economist · December 8, 2007 Cite

Underground gun markets

Journal Article Economic Journal · November 1, 2007 This article provides an economic analysis of underground gun markets, drawing on interviews with gang members, gun dealers, professional thieves, prostitutes, police, public school security guards and teenagers in the city of Chicago, complemented by resu ... Full text Cite

When is alcohol just another drug? Some thoughts on research and policy.

Journal Article Addiction (Abingdon, England) · August 2007 AimTo reflect on the divergence and overlap between alcohol and illicit drugs with respect to both current policies and policy research.ResultsFor demand reduction, there is considerable overlap in programs and services for prevention and ... Full text Cite

Response to comments

Journal Article Addiction · August 1, 2007 Full text Cite

When is alcohol just another drug?

Journal Article Addiction · June 2007 Cite

Smoke Signals: Adolescent Smoking and School Continuation

Journal Article Advances in Austrian Economics · May 22, 2007 Full text Cite

OpEd.

Other The News & Observer (Raleigh) · March 1, 2007 Cite

The Winner-take-all Society Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us

Chapter · 2007 More relevant today than ever before, this fascinating book shows how in business, as in sport, thousands are competing for only a handful of top prizes. ... Cite

Acting White

Chapter · 2007 Cite

Smoke Signals Adolescent Smoking and School Continuation

Chapter · 2007 This paper presents an exploratory analysis using NLSY97 data of the relationship between the likelihood of school continuation and the choices of whether to smoke or drink. ... Cite

Introduction to Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control

Chapter · 2007 What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family strife, crime, violence, poor health, and squandered hum ... Cite

Deaths from violence in North Carolina, 2004: how deaths differ in females and males.

Journal Article Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · December 2006 ObjectiveTo identify gender differences in violent deaths in terms of incidence, circumstances, and methods of death.DesignAnalysis of surveillance data.SettingNorth Carolina, a state of 8.6 million residents on the eastern seabo ... Full text Cite

Symposium on Deterrence: Editorial Introduction

Journal Article Criminology & Public Policy · August 2006 Cite

Aiming for evidence-based gun policy

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · June 1, 2006 Full text Cite

The gender gap among teen survey respondents: Why are boys more likely to report a gun in the home than girls?

Journal Article Journal of Quantitative Criminology · March 1, 2006 It is a reliable though unexplained feature of national surveys that include items on gun ownership that wives are less likely to report a gun in the home than husbands. In this article we extend the inquiry regarding this gender gap in reporting of house ... Full text Cite

The social costs of gun ownership

Journal Article Journal of Public Economics · January 1, 2006 This paper provides new estimates of the effect of household gun prevalence on homicide rates, and infers the marginal external cost of handgun ownership. The estimates utilize a superior proxy for gun prevalence, the percentage of suicides committed with ... Full text Cite

Cross-national patterns in crime rates

Journal Article Crime and Justice · January 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Risk factors among handgun retailers for frequent and disproportionate sales of guns used in violent and firearm related crimes.

Journal Article Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · December 2005 ObjectiveTo determine the retailer and community level factors associated with frequent and disproportionate sales of handguns that are later used in violent and firearm related crimes (VFC handguns).DesignCross sectional. The authors use ... Full text Cite

The Myth of the Drinker's Bonus

Scholarly Edition · December 2005 Cite

Criminal records of homicide offenders.

Journal Article JAMA · August 2005 ContextHomicide prevention strategies can be either targeted toward high-risk groups or addressed to the population at large. One high-risk group of particular interest is adults with a criminal record. But the prevalence of a criminal record amon ... Full text Cite

The Net Effect of an Alcohol Tax Increase on

Journal Article American Economic Review · May 2005 This article combines new estimates on the effect of per capital alcohol consumption on drinking patterns with a summary estimate from the epidemiology literature of relative risks associated with different levels of drinking. It is calculated that a perma ... Link to item Cite

Net Effect of an Alcohol Tax Increase on Death Rates in Middle Age

Journal Article American Economic Review · May 2005 Full text Cite

Can gun control work?

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · December 2004 Full text Cite

Principles for effective gun policy

Journal Article FORDHAM LAW REVIEW · November 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

Public policy perspectives: Principles for effective gun policy

Journal Article Fordham Law Review · November 1, 2004 Cite

Youths' involvement with guns: motivation vs availability.

Journal Article Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · July 2004 Full text Cite

State and local prevalence of firearms ownership measurement, structure, and trends

Journal Article Journal of Quantitative Criminology · March 1, 2004 Of the readily computed proxies for the prevalence of gun ownership, one, the percentage of suicides committed with a gun, is most highly correlated with survey-based estimates. It is the best choice for use in cross-section analysis of the effect of gun p ... Full text Cite

Can Gun Control Work? by James B. Jacobs

Other Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 2004 Cite

Does gun prevalence affect teen gun carrying after all?

Journal Article Criminology · January 1, 2004 Previous research suggests that American adolescents usually have ready access to guns, and that the extent of misuse of guns by adolescents is not much affected by local gun prevalence or regulation. This "futility" claim is based on one interpretation of ... Full text Cite

Can gun control work&quest

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 2004 Cite

Meeting the Demand for Expert Advice on Drug Policy

Journal Article Criminology and Public Policy · July 2003 Cook comments on Manski's essay entitled "Credible Research Practices to Inform Drug Law Enforcement." Although he agrees with Manski that the quality of the statistical evidence is poor, he holds that drug enforcement researchers have made important contr ... Link to item Cite

Pragmatic Gun Policy

Chapter · 2003 Cite

Fact-free gun policy?

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · January 1, 2003 Full text Cite

What did the sniper case teach us? Lessons in Gun Control

Other News & Observer (Raleigh) · November 3, 2002 Cite

The costs of gun violence against children.

Journal Article The Future of children · June 2002 Gun violence imposes significant costs on children, families, and American society as a whole. But these costs can be difficult to quantify, as much of the burden of gun violence results from intangible concerns about injury and death. This article explore ... Full text Cite

The economics of alcohol abuse and alcohol-control policies.

Journal Article Health affairs (Project Hope) · March 2002 Economic research has contributed to the evaluation of alcohol policy through empirical analysis of the effects of alcohol-control measures on alcohol consumption and its consequences. It has also provided an accounting framework for defining and comparing ... Full text Cite

Drug War Heresies by Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter

Other Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 2002 Cite

Gun Control

Chapter · 2002 Cite

'Smart' Guns: A Technological Fix for Regulating the Secondary Gun Market

Journal Article Contemporary Economic Problems · 2002 Cite

The Illegal Supply of Firearms

Journal Article Crime and Justice · January 2002 Full text Cite

What Price Fame? by Tyler Cowen

Other Journal of Economic Literature · September 2001 Cite

What price fame?

Journal Article JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE · September 1, 2001 Link to item Cite

Protecting the Public in Presidential Style

Other News & Observer (Raleigh) · June 10, 2001 Cite

Toward Smarter Gun Laws

Other The Christian Science Monitor · February 6, 2001 Cite

Forward

Chapter · 2001 Cite

The Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence: Evidence from Contingent-Valuation Survey Data

Journal Article Journal of Risk and Uncertainty · January 1, 2001 This article presents an estimate of the benefits of reducing crime using the contingent-valuation (CV) method. We focus on gun violence, a crime of growing policy concern in America. Our data come from a national survey in which we ask respondents referen ... Full text Cite

Impact of the Brady Act on homicide and suicide rates - Reply

Journal Article JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION · December 6, 2000 Link to item Cite

Chapter 30 Alcohol

Journal Article Handbook of Health Economics · December 1, 2000 Excess drinking is associated with lost productivity, accidents, disability, early death, crime, neglect of family responsibilities, and personality deterioration. These and related concerns have justified special restrictions on alcoholic-beverage commerc ... Full text Cite

Has the Brady Act Been Successful?

Other The Charlotte Observer · August 15, 2000 Cite

Homicide and suicide rates associated with implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.

Journal Article JAMA · August 2000 ContextIn February 1994, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act established a nationwide requirement that licensed firearms dealers observe a waiting period and initiate a background check for handgun sales. The effects of this act have not bee ... Full text Cite

Alcohol

Chapter · 2000 Cite

Household gun ownership.

Journal Article American journal of public health · September 1999 Full text Cite

Ludwig et al. Respond

Journal Article American Journal of Public Health · September 1999 Full text Cite

The medical costs of gunshot injuries in the United States.

Journal Article JAMA · August 1999 ContextThe cost of treating gunshot injuries imposes a financial burden on society. Estimates of such costs are relevant to evaluation of gun violence reduction programs and may help guide reimbursement policies.ObjectivesTo develop relia ... Full text Cite

0pEd.

Other The News & Observer (Raleigh) · February 14, 1999 Cite

The Effects of Short-Term Variation in Abortion Funding on Pregnancy Outcomes

Journal Article Journal of Health Economics · 1999 The appropriations for North Carolina's abortion fund have proven inadequate during five of the years between 1980 and 1994. This on-again, off-again funding pattern provides a natural experiment for estimating the short-run effect of changes in the cost o ... Cite

The Medical Costs of Gunshot Wounds

Journal Article Journal of the American Medical Association · 1999 Cite

Alcohol

Scholarly Edition · January 1999 Cite

The gender gap in reporting household gun ownership.

Journal Article American journal of public health · November 1998 ObjectivesThis study examined errors in estimating household gun ownership that result from interviewing only 1 adult per household.MethodsData from 2 recent telephone surveys and a series of in-person surveys were used to compare reports ... Full text Cite

Support for new policies to regulate firearms. Results of two national surveys.

Journal Article The New England journal of medicine · September 1998 BackgroundNew policy options are emerging in the debate regarding the regulation of firearms in the United States. These options include the treatment of firearms as consumer products, the design of which can be regulated for safety; denial of gun ... Full text Cite

Safer guns

Journal Article ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · September 1, 1998 Link to item Cite

Gun Control

Chapter · 1998 Cite

Defensive Gun Uses: New Evidence from a National Survey

Journal Article Journal of Quantitative Criminology · January 1, 1998 The number of civilian defensive gun uses (DGUs) against criminal attackers is regularly invoked in public policy debates as a benefit of widespread private ownership of firearms. Yet there is considerable uncertainty for the prevalence of civilian DGUs, w ... Full text Cite

Weighing the OBurden of Acting WhiteO: Are There Race Differences in Attitudes Towards Education?

Journal Article JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT · 1997 Cite

The gun debate's new mythical number: How many defensive uses per year?

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 1997 Full text Cite

Weighing the Burden of 'Acting White': Are there Race Differences in Attitudes Towards Education?

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 1997 Analyzes the `National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988' to answer three questions on race differences in attitudes toward education in the United States. Greater alienation experienced by blacks toward school than non-Hispanic whites; Peer penalties f ... Link to item Cite

Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy: An Economic Analysis of the Attack on Gun Control

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · December 1996 Link to item Cite

Kids, guns, and public policy - Foreword

Journal Article LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS · December 1, 1996 Link to item Cite

Letters to the editor

Journal Article Society · September 1, 1996 Full text Cite

OpEd.

Other Chronicle of Higher Education · January 5, 1996 Cite

Guns in America results of a comprehensive national survey on firearms ownership and use

Book · January 1996 With nearly 200,000,000 guns in private hands, firearms have an important impact on the quality of American life. ... Cite

Kids, Guns, and Public Policy

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems : a Quarterly Published by the Duke University, School of Law · 1996 Cite

Tax Laws, Alcohol

Chapter · 1996 Cite

Editorial: Strategic Thinking About Gun Markets and Violence

Journal Article Journal of the American Medical Association · 1996 Cite

OpEd.

Other Washington Monthly · December 1995 Cite

Criteria for Determining an Optimal Cigarette Tax: the Economists' Perspective

Journal Article Tobacco Control · December 1995 In the debate on cigarette taxation, both supporters and opponents of higher taxes often appeal to economic theory and analysis. To evaluate the criteria for defining an optimal cigarette excise tax from the perspective of economics, the office on Smoking ... Cite

OpEd.

Other Washington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · November 12, 1995 Cite

OpEd.

Other USA Today · October 9, 1995 Cite

Gun Control

Chapter · 1995 Cite

Alcool, Alcoolisme, Aloolisation.

Journal Article Alcohol health and research world · January 1995 Cite

Alcool, alcoolisme, alcoolisation" by S. Ledermann

Journal Article Alcohol Health & Research World · 1995 Discusses the impact of the article `Alcool, Alcoolisme, Alcoolisation,' by S. Leddermann on the direction of alcohol research. Original publication in the Volume One Number 29 issue of the `Donnees Scientifique de Caractere Physiologique, Economique et So ... Link to item Cite

Regulating Gun Markets

Journal Article The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-) · 1995 Full text Cite

ALCOOL, ALCOOLISME, ALCOOLISATION - COMMENT

Journal Article ALCOHOL HEALTH & RESEARCH WORLD · January 1, 1995 Link to item Cite

This Tax's for You

Journal Article National Tax Journal · September 1994 Some of the evidence that alcoholic beverages prices influence the prevalence and social costs of alcohol abuse is reviewed. The focus is on youths since it is this group that is most prone to abusing alcohol and that suffers a disproportionate share of th ... Link to item Cite

THIS TAXS FOR YOU - THE CASE FOR HIGHER BEER TAXES

Journal Article NATIONAL TAX JOURNAL · September 1, 1994 Link to item Cite

Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America by Gary Kleck

Other The New England journal of medicine · February 3, 1994 Cite

Notes: The “Gambler's Fallacy” in Lottery Play

Journal Article Management Science · December 1993 The “gambler's fallacy” is the belief that the probability of an event is lowered when that event has recently occurred, even though the probability of the event is objectively known to be independent from one trial to the next. This paper provide ... Full text Cite

Notes: The "Gambler's Fallacy" in Lottery Play

Journal Article Management Science · December 1993 The "gambler's fallacy" is the belief that the probability of an event is lowered when that event has recently occurred, even though the probability of the event is objectively known to be independent from one trial to the next. This paper provides evidenc ... Cite

The matter of tobacco use.

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · December 1993 Full text Cite

Confronting Drunk Driving: Social Policy for Saving Lives

Journal Article Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law · February 1, 1993 Full text Cite

Confronting Drunk Driving: Social Policy for Saving Lives by H. Lawrence Ross

Other Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law · 1993 Cite

FIREARM INJURIES - PUBLIC-HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS

Journal Article AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE · 1993 Full text Cite

Drinking and Schooling

Journal Article Journal of Health Economics · 1993 We employ the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data to explore the effect of youthful drinking on years of schooling and on the likelihood of college graduation. Our instruments for youthful drinking include the state beer tax and the minimum purchase ... Cite

Notes on the Availability and Prevalence of Firearms

Journal Article American Journal of Preventive Medicine · 1993 Legislators have formulated a variety of state and federal regulations to make obtaining firearms more difficult for dangerous people. Even though this goal may appear hopeless in the face of the 150-200 million guns currently in circulation, both evidenc ... Cite

Violence Reduction through Restrictions on Alcohol Availability

Journal Article Alcohol Health & Research World · 1993 It is suggested that the link between alcohol and violence is relevant to evaluating alcohol control policies and that policies that can curtail the use or abuse of alcohol among people who may be prone to violence can reduce the incidence of violent crime ... Link to item Cite

Firearm injuries: Public health recommendations

Journal Article American Journal of Preventive Medicine · January 1, 1993 Full text Cite

Notes on the availability and prevalence of firearms

Journal Article American Journal of Preventive Medicine · January 1, 1993 Legislators have formulated a variety of state and federal regulations to make obtaining firearms more difficult for dangerous people. Even though this goal may appear hopeless in the face of the 150-200 million guns currently in circulation, both evidence ... Full text Cite

Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results by Mark A.R. Kleiman and The Search for Rational Drug Control Policy by Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins

Other The Search for Rational Drug Control Policy in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 1992 Cite

The Costs of Poor Health Habits by Willard Manning et. al.

Other The Costs of Poor Health Habits in Policy Currents · 1992 Cite

Lotteries

Chapter · 1992 Cite

Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 1992 Full text Cite

Lotteries in the real world

Journal Article Journal of Risk and Uncertainty · July 1, 1991 Observed patterns of lottery play suggest that many players believe they can improve their chance of winning by adjusting their bets according to which numbers have won in recent drawings, or in response to their dreams or other portents. This skill orient ... Full text Cite

The Peculiar Scale Economies of Lotto

Journal Article · July 1991 Cite

Weapons and minority youth violence.

Journal Article Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · May 1991 Cite

OpEd.

Other San Diego Union · April 1991 Cite

What Kind of Lottery for North Carolina?

Journal Article Popular Government · March 1991 Cite

Drugs and Crime, Michael Tonry and Norval Morris, eds.

Other Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 1991 Cite

On the Economics of State Lotteries (shorter version)

Journal Article The Conference Board of Economic Times · 1991 Cite

Drugs and Crime

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 1991 Full text Cite

On the Economics of State Lotteries

Journal Article Journal of Economic Perspectives · November 1, 1990 This article examines several aspects of the economics of state lotteries, focusing primarily on the demand for lottery products. We begin by giving a descriptive overview. The succeeding sections examine the motivations for playing lottery games ... Full text Cite

0pEd.

Other Newsday · July 24, 1990 Cite

OpEd.

Other The News and Observer (Raleigh) · May 27, 1990 Cite

Redefining “success” in the state lottery business

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · January 1, 1990 Full text Cite

Redefining “success” in the state lottery business

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 1990 Cite

The Demand for Lottery Products

Scholarly Edition · April 1989 Cite

OpEd.

Other The Atlanta Constitution · February 12, 1989 Cite

The cultural dimensions of alcohol policy worldwide.

Journal Article Health affairs (Project Hope) · January 1989 Full text Cite

A sociolegal problem: social control of the drinking driver.

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · July 1988 Full text Cite

Vice

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems : a Quarterly Published by the Duke University, School of Law · 1988 Cite

Comment

Chapter · 1988 Cite

Increasing the federal excise taxes on alcoholic beverages

Journal Article Journal of Health Economics · January 1, 1988 Full text Cite

An Introduction to Vice

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 1988 Full text Cite

OpEd.

Other The New York times · August 20, 1987 Cite

Implicit Taxation in Lottery Finance

Journal Article · May 1987 Cite

Robbery violence

Journal Article Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · January 1, 1987 Full text Cite

The (Surprising) stability of youth crime rates

Journal Article Journal of Quantitative Criminology · September 1, 1986 Despite the profound demographic and socioeconomic changes characterizing family life in recent years, youth crime rates have remained more or less constant since 1971. This finding is of interest given the intense public concern regarding the welfare of c ... Full text Cite

Homicide and Economic Conditions

Journal Article Journal of Quantitative Criminology · March 1986 M. Harvey Brenner has produced two influential studies of the social costs of unemployment, economic inequality, and economic growth, both sponsored by the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress. This paper reports the results of an effort to repro ... Cite

Homicide and economic conditions: A replication and critique of M. Harvey Brenner's new report to the U.S. Congress

Journal Article Journal of Quantitative Criminology · March 1, 1986 M. Harvey Brenner has produced two influential studies of the social costs of unemployment, economic inequality, and economic growth, both sponsored by the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress. This paper reports the results of an effort to reprod ... Full text Cite

Social Behavior

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 1986 Full text Cite

The Demand and Supply of Criminal Opportunities

Journal Article Crime and Justice · January 1986 Full text Cite

Unemployment and Crime--What is the Connection?

Journal Article The Public Interest · March 1985 Cite

The case of the missing victims: Gunshot woundings in the National Crime Survey

Journal Article Journal of Quantitative Criminology · March 1, 1985 National Crime Survey (NCS) data yield an estimate that 171,000 Americans were nonfatally shot in criminal assaults, robberies, and rapes for the period 1973-1979. Comparing this estimate with the number of firearms homicides during this period suggests ei ... Full text Cite

Crime and the Business Cycle

Journal Article The Journal of Legal Studies · January 1985 Full text Cite

Is robbery becoming more violent? An analysis of robbery murder trends since 1968

Journal Article Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · January 1, 1985 According to the police-generated data, 1973 was a turning point. Robbery murders as a percentage of both total homicides and total robberies were increasing before 1973, but not thereafter. Indeed, a substantial reduction in the robbery murder-robbery rat ... Full text Cite

What Policy Analysts Do: Three Research Styles

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 1985 Full text Cite

The Use of Criminal Statutes to Regulate Product Safety: Comment on Wheeler

Journal Article The Journal of Legal Studies · August 1984 Full text Cite

Deterring the Drinking Driver

Journal Article Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law · August 1, 1983 Full text Cite

Deterring the Drinking Driver by Laurence Ross

Other Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law · 1983 Also published in Popular Government, Winter 1983, 37 38. ... Cite

Costs of Crime

Chapter · 1983 Cite

Alcohol taxes as a public health measure.

Journal Article British journal of addiction · September 1982 Full text Cite

The Effect of Liquor Taxes on Heavy Drinking

Journal Article The Bell Journal of Economics · 1982 Full text Cite

Making Handguns Harder to Hide

Other The Christian Science Monitor · May 29, 1981 Cite

North Carolina's Pistol Permit Law: An Evaluation

Journal Article Popular Government · May 1981 Cite

The Effect of Gun Availability on Violent Crime Patterns

Journal Article The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · May 1981 Social scientists have started to find answers to some of the questions raised in the ongoing debate over gun control. The basic factual issue in this debate concerns the effect of gun availability on the distribution, seriousness, and number of v ... Full text Cite

Gun Control

Journal Article Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 1981 Cite

State Programs for Screening Handgun Buyers

Journal Article The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · January 1, 1981 Three to five million handguns change hands each year. Almost half the states—including 64 percent of the population—require that buyers be screened by the police, with the objective of preventing certain groups of po tentially dangerous people—felons, fug ... Full text Cite

Guns and Crime: The Perils of Long Division

Journal Article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 1981 Full text Cite

The 'saturday night special': An assessment of alternative definitions from a policy perspective

Journal Article Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · January 1, 1981 Full text Cite

Economic Models of Criminal Behavior

Journal Article Southern Economic Journal · April 1980 Full text Cite

Economic Models of Criminal Behavior by John Heineke

Other Southern economic journal · 1980 Cite

REDUCING INJURY AND DEATH RATES IN ROBBERY

Journal Article POLICY ANALYSIS · January 1, 1980 Link to item Cite

The clearance rate as a measure of criminal justice system effectiveness

Journal Article Journal of Public Economics · February 1979 Full text Cite

Discussion (on Martin Bailey's paper on Safety Decisions and Insurance)

Conference American Economics Association Papers and Proceedings · May 1978 Cite

Prisoners Among Us by David T. Stanley

Other Policy analysis · 1978 Cite

Causal Linkages between Gun Control Ordinances and Crime: A Conceptualization and Review of the Literature

Report · 1978 Hearings on the Treasury Department's proposed gun regulations, before the Subcommittee on Crime, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, 95th Congress, 2nd Session, Appendix 4, May 4 and 18, 1978. ... Cite

The value of human life in the demand for safety: Comment

Journal Article American Economic Review · January 1, 1978 Cite

PRISONERS AMONG US - PROBLEM OF PAROLE - STANLEY,DT

Journal Article POLICY ANALYSIS · January 1, 1978 Link to item Cite

The Demand for Insurance and Protection: The Case of Irreplaceable Commodities

Journal Article The Quarterly Journal of Economics · February 1977 Full text Open Access Cite

PUBLIC-POLICY EVALUATION - DOLBEARE,KM

Journal Article POLICY ANALYSIS · January 1, 1977 Link to item Cite

A Plea To Deter Hasty Conclusions About Deterrence Research

Journal Article Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews · May 1976 Full text Cite

Valuing Lives

Book · 1976 Cite

Crime, Punishment, and Deterrence by Jack P. Gibbs

Other Contemporary Psychology · 1976 Cite

VALUING LIVES - FOREWORD

Journal Article LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS · January 1, 1976 Link to item Cite

The Correctional Carrot: The Prospect of Reducing Recidivism through Improved Job Opportunities

Journal Article Policy Analysis · January 1975 How can men who have been released from prison be deterred from returning to crime? Our present “correctional” system does not correct, and most experiments with innovative rehabilitation techniques have reached negative conclusions. The most promising a ... Cite

The effect of unemployment dispersion on the rate of wage inflation

Journal Article Journal of Monetary Economics · January 1, 1975 Full text Cite

CORRECTIONAL CARROT - BETTER JOBS FOR PAROLEES

Journal Article POLICY ANALYSIS · January 1, 1975 Link to item Cite

A 'One Line' Proof of the Slutsky Equation

Journal Article The American Economic Review · March 1972 This article discusses the key features of consumer theory on individual consumers' reaction to changes in the market price of commodities. The discussion presented that market price of a commodity can be broken into vectors of substitution effects and inc ... Link to item Cite

Are Alcohol Excise Taxes Good For Us? Short and Long-Term Effects on Mortality Rates

Other Regression results from a 30-year panel of the state-level data indicate that changes in alcohol-excise taxes cause a reduction in drinking and lower all-cause mortality in the short run. But those results do not fully capture the long-term mortality effec ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite