Reassessing the Association between Gun Availabili

Authors: Irshad Altheimer Matthew Boswell

Publish Date: 2011/12/21

Volume: 37, Issue: 4, Pages: 682-704

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Abstract

This paper had two objectives First to examine the association between gun availability gun homicide and homicide in a manner that better accounts for potential simultaneity than previous crossnational research Second to examine the manner that the relationship between gun availability and violence is shaped by sociohistorical and cultural context The results lend little support to the notion that gun availability operates uniformly across nations to influence levels of violence Rather these results suggest that the nature of the relationship between gun availability and violence is shaped by the sociohistorical and cultural processes occurring across nations

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