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Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review
Criminal justice interventions
enhanced sentences for criminal use of firearms, 223–230
gun courts, 221–222
problem-oriented policing to prevent firearm-related crime, 230–241
to reduce firearm-related violence, 9–10 , 18 , 221–241
Criminal use of firearms, 78
sources of firearm data on, 26–29
Cross-sectional studies, 154–162
of associations between firearms prevalence and suicide in the U.S., 156–161
of gun laws and suicide, 184 , 186–189
international studies, 161–162
U.S. studies, 155–161
Curse of dimensionality, 305
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Data, 20–42 , 122–123
interpreting, 82
observational, 299
quality of, 16
revised new sets of, 126–127 , 139
revised original sets of, 122 , 125–126
Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems (DEEDS), 47
Data for measuring firearms violence and ownership, 18–52
general objectives for developing useful research data, 42–48
a patchwork of data sets, 20–42
sources of, 15–16
Data on firearms ownership, use, and markets, 34–42
administrative and convenience samples, 37–41
proxy measures of ownership, 41–42
surveys, 34–37
Data on violence and crime, 20–34
National Crime Victimization Survey, 21 , 30
National Incident-Based Reporting System, 32–33
National Violent Death Reporting System, 33–34
selected sources of firearm data, 22–31
Uniform Crime Reports, 31–32
Data recommendations, 3–5
emerging data systems on violent events, 3
methodological approaches, 4–5
ownership data, 4
Data systems, 194–195
David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 13
DEEDS. See Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems
Defensive gun use (DGU), 6–7 , 103–114
comparing sampling design of the NCVS and NSDS, 104
coverage in, 105–108
recommendations on, 6–7
response problems in firearms use surveys, 108–114
Demand, for illegal firearm acquisition, 84–85
Denning, Brannon P., 286
Deterrence and defense recommendations, 6–7
defensive gun use, 6–7
right-to-carry laws, 7
Deterrence approach, applications of pulling-levers focus, 240–241
DGU. See Defensive gun use
Dimension reduction, 308 n
Dimensionality, curse of, 305
Direct causality framework, 153
Disaggregate property crimes, estimates of percentage change in, 148
Disaggregate violent crimes, estimates of percentage change in, 146–147
Dissent, 18 , 269–271
Committee’s response to Wilson’s, 18 , 272–275
Distribution of firearms ownership, 59
District of Columbia
handgun ban to reduce criminal access to firearms in, 97–98
Personal Protection Act, 279
Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) program, 40
Due Process Clause, of the Fourteenth Amendment, 288
DUF. See Drug Use Forecasting program
Duggan’s results, 128–129
Dummy variable model, 123–124 , 130–133
with common time pattern, 123 , 126–127 , 140–141
with “region-interacted time pattern model,” 123
Duncan v. Louisiana , 288