Book section · January 1, 2026
Gun violence is the most costly crime problem in many American cities (Cook and Ludwig 2022). Police departments have a leading role in gun-violence prevention, primarily through their capacity to investigate criminal shootings, arrest perpetrators, and pr ...
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Book section · 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 ...
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Book section · 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 ...
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Book section · 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 ...
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Book section · 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. ...
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Book section · 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 ...
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Book section · 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, ...
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Book section · 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. ...
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Book section · 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. ...
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Book section · 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. ...
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Book section · 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 ...
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