Stand Your Ground Laws And Homicides
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Stand Your Ground Laws And Homicides
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Author : Chandler B. McClellan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Stand Your Ground Laws And Homicides written by Chandler B. McClellan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Crime prevention categories.
Since 2005, eighteen states have passed legislation that has extended the right to self-defense, with no duty to retreat, to places a person has a legal right to be, and several other states are debating to introduce similar legislation. The controversies surrounding these laws have captured the nation's attention recently. Despite significant implications that they may have on public safety, there has been little empirical investigation of the impact of these laws on crime and victimization. In this paper, we examine how Stand Your Ground laws that extend the right to self-defense to areas outside the home affect homicides using monthly data from the U.S. Vital Statistics. We identify the impact of these laws by exploiting the variation in the effective date of these laws across states. Our results indicate that Stand Your Ground laws are associated with a significant increase in the number of homicides among whites, especially white males. According to our estimates, between 4.39 and 7.44 additional white males are killed each month as a result of these laws. We find no evidence to suggest that these laws increase homicides among blacks. Our results are robust to a number of specifications and unlikely to be driven entirely by the killings of assailants. Taken together, our findings raise serious doubts against the argument that Stand Your Ground laws make America safer.
Stand Your Ground Laws Homicides And Injuries
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Author : Chandler B. McClellan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Stand Your Ground Laws Homicides And Injuries written by Chandler B. McClellan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
The controversies surrounding gun control policies have recently moved to the forefront of public's attention in the United States and elsewhere. Since 2005, eighteen states in the United States have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating the adoption of similar legislation. Despite the implications that these laws may have for public safety, there has been little empirical investigation of their impact on crime and victimization. In this paper, we use monthly data from the U.S. Vital Statistics to examine how Stand Your Ground laws affect homicides and firearm injuries. We identify the impact of these laws by exploiting variation in the effective date of these laws across states over time. Our results indicate that Stand Your Ground laws are associated with a significant increase in the number of homicides among whites, especially white males. According to our estimates, between 28 and 33 additional white males are killed each month as a result of these laws. We find no consistent evidence to suggest that these laws increase homicides among blacks. Auxiliary analysis using data from the Supplemental Homicide Reports indicates that our results are not driven by the killings of assailants. We also find that the stand your ground laws are not related to non-homicide deaths, which should not respond to gun laws. Finally, we analyze data from the Health Care Utilization Project to show that these laws are also associated with a significant increase in emergency room visits and hospital discharges related to firearm inflicted injuries. Taken together, these findings raise serious doubts against the argument that Stand Your Ground laws make public safer.
Stand Your Ground Laws
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Author : Civil Righ Subcommittee on Constitution
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-05-21
Stand Your Ground Laws written by Civil Righ Subcommittee on Constitution and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-21 with categories.
The debate over "stand your ground" laws raises fundamental questions about self-defense in the United States of America. In recent years, we have seen a dramatic increase in laws expanding the situations in which a person can legally use deadly force in response to a perceived threat. Florida passed the first of this new wave of "stand your ground" laws in 2005. Prior to 2005, Florida law held that a person outside his home could not use deadly force and then claim self-defense if the person could have safely avoided the confrontation. This "duty of safe retreat" sought to prevent public disputes from escalating into violence. But the gun lobby pushed to change Florida's law so people could shoot someone who threatened them without first trying to avoid a confrontation. These "stand your ground" laws have led to increases in homicides and firearm injuries with no deterrent effect on crimes like robbery or assault. In some cases, these laws have emboldened those who carry guns to initiate confrontations which have ended up killing unarmed children.
Stand Your Ground Laws
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Stand Your Ground Laws written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Civil rights categories.
Stand Your Ground
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Author : Caroline Light
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2017-02-14
Stand Your Ground written by Caroline Light and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-14 with History categories.
A history of America’s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin After a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided if the schoolteachers had been armed and the classrooms equipped with guns. Similar claims were repeated in the aftermath of other recent shootings—after nine were killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and in the aftermath of the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting. Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement—and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As scholar Caroline Light proves, support for “good guys with guns” relies on the entrenched belief that certain “bad guys with guns” threaten us all. Stand Your Ground explores the development of the American right to self-defense and reveals how the original “duty to retreat” from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. In her rigorous genealogy, Light traces white America’s attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories—from the original “castle laws” of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of “criminal” Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country’s most powerful lobbying forces. In this convincing treatise on the United States’ unprecedented ascension as the world’s foremost stand-your-ground nation, Light exposes a history hidden in plain sight, showing how violent self-defense has been legalized for the most privileged and used as a weapon against the most vulnerable.
Gun Studies
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Author : Jennifer Carlson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-07
Gun Studies written by Jennifer Carlson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-07 with Social Science categories.
As cultural, social, political, and historical objects, guns are rich with complex and contested significance. What guns mean, why they matter, and what policies should be undertaken to regulate guns remain issues of vigorous scholarly and public debate. Gun Studies offers fresh research and original perspectives on the contentious issue of firearms in public life. Comprising global, interdisciplinary contributions, this insightful volume examines difficult and timely questions through the lens of: Social practice Marketing and commerce Critical theory Political conflict Public policy Criminology Questions explored include the evolution of American gun culture from recreation to self-protection; the changing dynamics of the pro-gun and pro-regulation movements; the deeply personal role of guns as sources of both injury and security; and the relationship between gun-wielding individuals, the state, and social order in the United States and abroad. In addition to introducing new research, Gun Studies presents reflections by senior scholars on what has been learned over the decades and how gun-related research has influenced public policy and everyday conversations. Offering provocative and often intimate perspectives on how guns influence individuals, social structures, and the state in both dramatic and nuanced ways, Gun Studies will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as sociology, political science, legal history, criminology, criminal justice, social policy, armaments industries, and violent crime. It will also appeal to policy makers and all others interested in and concerned about the use of guns.
Homicide Case Studies
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Author : Kyle A. Burgason
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-27
Homicide Case Studies written by Kyle A. Burgason and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-27 with Social Science categories.
Homicide Case Studies is a first-of-its-kind text, offering readers more than 30 case studies drawn from real-world homicide cases that include the often-overlooked context and complexities faced by victims, offenders, law enforcement, attorneys, jurors, and correctional personnel. From investigating different forms of homicides to deciding what charges should be filed, weighty decisions about homicide cases must be made by professionals. This book provides nuanced scenarios and critical thinking questions that put readers in the role, giving them the ability to apply what they’ve learned to make well-thought-out and just decisions concerning each case. Students learn through the Andragogical approach fostering an individualized learning experience that bridges the academic–professional gap—finally providing an answer to the question "When am I going to use this?" This book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in criminal justice, as well as scholars, policymakers, and others with an interest in the rich and complex world of criminal homicide.
More Guns Less Crime
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Author : John R Lott
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2000-06-15
More Guns Less Crime written by John R Lott and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-15 with Social Science categories.
Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it simply cause more citizens to harm each other? Directly challenging common perceptions about gun control, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws. This timely and provocative work comes to the startling conclusion: more guns mean less crime. In this paperback edition, Lott has expanded the research through 1996, incorporating new data available from states that passed right-to-carry and other gun laws since the book's publication as well as new city-level statistics. "Lott's pro-gun argument has to be examined on the merits, and its chief merit is lots of data. . . . If you still disagree with Lott, at least you will know what will be required to rebut a case that looks pretty near bulletproof."Peter Coy, Business Week "By providing strong empirical evidence that yet another liberal policy is a cause of the very evil it purports to cure, he has permanently changed the terms of debate on gun control. . . . Lott's book could hardly be more timely. . . . A model of the meticulous application of economics and statistics to law and policy."John O. McGinnis, National Review "His empirical analysis sets a standard that will be difficult to match. . . . This has got to be the most extensive empirical study of crime deterrence that has been done to date." Public Choice "For anyone with an open mind on either side of this subject this book will provide a thorough grounding. It is also likely to be the standard reference on the subject for years to come."Stan Liebowitz, Dallas Morning News "A compelling book with enough hard evidence that even politicians may have to stop and pay attention. More Guns, Less Crimeis an exhaustive analysis of the effect of gun possession on crime rates."James Bovard, Wall Street Journal "John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful, scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue."Milton Friedman
The Science Of Gun Policy
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Author : RAND Corporation
language : en
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Release Date : 2018-03-02
The Science Of Gun Policy written by RAND Corporation and has been published by Rand Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-02 with Law categories.
The Policy Defined -- Research Synthesis Findings -- Conclusions -- Chapter Twenty-One References -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Mass Shootings -- What Is a Mass Shooting? -- Are Mass Shootings on the Rise? -- Conclusions -- Chapter Twenty-Two References -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Defensive Gun Use -- What Is Defensive Gun Use? -- What Are the Challenges in Measuring Defensive Gun Use? -- Does Defensive Gun Use Reduce Harm? -- Chapter Twenty-Three References -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: The Effects of the 1996 National Firearms Agreement in Australia on Suicide, Violent Crime, and Mass Shootings -- Methods -- Research Synthesis Findings -- Conclusions -- Chapter Twenty-Four References -- Part D: Summary of Findings and Recommendations -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Summary and Conclusions -- Summarizing the Strength of Evidence -- What Can We Conclude About the Effects of Gun Policies? -- Why Don't We Know More? -- Chapter Twenty-Five References -- APPENDIXES -- A. Methodological Challenges to Identifying the Effects of Gun Policies -- B. Source Data Used to Produce the Forest Plot Figures
Guns In America
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Author : Donald J. Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2021-08-09
Guns In America written by Donald J. Campbell and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-09 with Law categories.
This work provides readers with an authoritative resource for understanding the true extent and nature of gun violence in America, examining the veracity of claims and counterclaims about mass shootings, gun laws, and public attitudes about gun control. This work is part of a series that uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about high-profile issues in American culture and politics. Each book in the Contemporary Debates series is intended to puncture rather than perpetuate myths that diminish our understanding of important policies and positions; to provide needed context for misleading statements and claims; and to confirm the factual accuracy of other assertions. This particular volume examines beliefs, claims, and myths about gun violence, gun laws, and gun rights in the United States. Issues covered in the book include trends in firearm violence, mass shootings, the impact of gun ownership on rates and types of crime, regulations and Supreme Court decisions regarding gun control and the Second Amendment, and the activities and influence of organizations ranging from the National Rifle Association to Everytown for Gun Safety. All of these topics are examined in individualized entries, with objective responses grounded in up-to-date evidence.