Violence among youths is an important public health problem. Between 1985 and 1991,
homicide rates among youths 15–19 years of age increased 154% and remain, today, at …

This article reviews the most commonly cited, representative, empirical studies in the peer-
reviewed literature that directly investigate the association of gun availability and homicide …

Situational prevention seeks to reduce opportunities for specific categories of crime by
increasing the associated risks and difficulties and reducing the rewards. It is composed of …

In this highly original work, Robert and Beverley Cairns follow the pathways of 695 young
people growing up in the 1980s and 1990s (their educational successes and failures, their …

Abstract The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration assigned housing vouchers via
random lottery to public housing residents in five cities. We use the exogenous variation in …

Over the past decade, problem‐oriented policing has become a central strategy for policing.
In a number of studies, problem‐oriented policing has been found to be effective in reducing …

Studies have shown that poverty and income are powerful predictors of homicide and violent
crime. We hypothesized that the effect of the growing gap between the rich and poor is …

Using cross-sectional time-series data for US counties from 1977 to 1992, we find that
allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes, without increasing …

Prologue: In October 1985 Surgeon General C. Everett Koop convened his Workshop on
Violence and Public Health, which signaled public health's entry into the field of violence …

This paper examines the relationship between gun ownership and crime. Previous research
has suffered from a lack of reliable data on gun ownership. I exploit a unique data set to …