Crime and Societal Violence

Small Arms and Crime

Small Arms Survey Publications

Jutersonke, Oliver, Keith Krause, and Robert Muggah. 2007. Guns in the City: Urban Landscapes of Armed Violence. Small Arms Survey 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Aguirre, Katherine, Robert Muggah, Jorge A. Restrepo and Michael Spagat. 2006. Colombia's Hydra: The Many Faces of Gun Violence in Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business.

Wille, Christina. 2006. Finding the Evidence: The Links Between Weapon Collection Programmes, Gun Use, and Homicide Rates in Cambodia. African Security Review. Vol 15. No. 2.

Florquin, Nicolas and Christina Wille. 2004. A Common Tool: Firearms, Violence, and Crime in Small Arms Survey 2004: Rights at Risk.

Alpers, Philip and Conor Twyford. 2003. Small Arms in the Pacific. Occasional Paper 8.


Other Articles, Books, and Journals

Muggah, Robert. (2008-forthcoming). A Hard Pill to Swallow: Collective Violence in Africa. In WHO Ed. World Report on Violence: 2007. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Moser, Caroline O. N. 2006. Reducing Urban Violence in Developing Countries. Policy Brief 2006-01, November. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution

Hemenway, David. 2004. Private Guns, Public Health. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Campbell, J., et al. 2003. Risk Factors for Femicide in Abusive Relationships: Results from a Multi-site Case Control Study. American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 93.

Donohue, John. 2003. The Final Bullet in the Body of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis. Criminology and Public Policy, Vol. 2, No. 3. July.

Wintemute, Garen, Mona Wright, and Christiana Drake. 2003. Increased Risk of Intimate Partner Homicide Among California Women Who Purchased Handguns. Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 41.

Jefferson, Clare and Angus Urquhart. 2002. The Impact of Small Arms in Tanzania. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies.

Miller, Matthew, Deborah Azrael, and David Hemenway. 2002. Firearm Availability and Unintentional Firearm Deaths, Suicide, and Homicide Among 5-14 Year Olds. Journal of Trauma Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, Vol. 52, No. 2.

Slovak, Karen. 2002. Gun Violence and Children: Factors Related to Exposure and Trauma. Health and Social Work, Vol. 27, No. 2.

Hemenway, David, Tomoko Shinoda-Tagawa, and Matthew Miller. 2002. Firearm Availability and Female Homicide Victimization Rates Among 25 Populous High-Income Countries. Journal of the American Medical Women's Association, Vol. 57, Issue 2. Spring.

Killias, Martin, John van Kesteren, and Zorrin Rindlisbacher. 2001. Guns, Violent Crime, and Suicide in 21 Countries. Canadian Journal of Criminology, Vol. 43, Nr. 4.

Cook, Philip. 2001. The Costs and Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence. Harvard Health Policy Review, Vol. 2, No.2.

Duggan, M. 2001. More Guns, More Crime. Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 109, No. 5. October.

Blumstein, A. and J. Wallman. 2000. The Crime Drop in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McDowall, D., C. Loftin, and S. Presser. 2000. Measuring Civilian Defensive Firearm Use: A Methodological Experiment. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 16.

Cook, Philip. 2000. Gun Violence. The Real Costs. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hemenway, David and D. R. Azrael. 2000. The Relative Frequency of Offensive and Defensive Gun Use: Results from a National Survey. Violence and Victims, Vol. 15.

Kates, Don and Daniel D. Polsby. 2000. Long-term Non-relationship of Widespread and Increasing Firearm Availability to Homicide in the United States. Homicide Studies, Vol. 4, Issue 2.

Kellermann, A. and S. Heron. 1999. Firearms and Family Violence. Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, Vol. 17.

Miller, Matthew and David Hemenway. 1999. Relationship Between Firearms and Suicide: A Review of the Literature. Aggression and Violent Behavior, Vol. 4, No. 1.

Wintemute, Garen, Carrie A. Parham, James J. Beaumont, Mona Wright, and Christiana Drake. 1999. Mortality Among Recent Purchasers of Handguns. New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 341.

Black, D. and D. Nagin. 1998. Do Right-to-Carry Laws Deter Violent Crime? Journal of Legal Studies. Vol. 27.

Lott, John R., Jr. 1998. More Guns, Less Crime. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Krug, E., K. Powell, and L. Dahlberg. 1998. Firearm-related Deaths in the United States and 35 Other High- and Upper-Middle-Income Countries. International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 27.

Renner, Michael. 1998. Environmental and social risk factors, governance, and small arms availability: The potential for conflict in urban areas. Comparative Urban Studies Project Occasional Paper No. 15. Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars.

Smith, T. 1997. "A Call for a Truce in the DGU War." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Vol. 87.

Kleck, Gary. 1997. Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Bailey, J., A. Kellermann, G. Somes, J. Banton, F. Rivara, and N. Rushforth. 1997. Risk Factors for Violent Death of Women in the Home. Archives of Internal Medicine. Vol. 157, No. 7.

Cook, Philip and Jens Ludwig. 1997. Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms. Research in Brief. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice.

Hemenway, David. 1997. The Myth of Millions of Self-Defense Gun Use: An Explanation of Extreme Overestimates. Chance, Vol. 10.

Anderson, Jack. 1996. Inside the NRA. Armed and Dangerous: An Exposé. Beverly Hills, CA: Penguin USA.

Kleck, Gary and Marc Gertz. 1995. Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology , Vol. 86.

McDowall, D. and B. Wiersema. 1994. Incidence of Defensive Firearms Use by U.S. Crime Victims, 1987-1990. American Journal of Public Health. Vol. 84, No. 12.

Chapdelaine, Antoine, E. Samson, and M. Kimberly. 1991. Firearm-related Injuries in Canada: Issues for Prevention. Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 145, No. 10.

Kleck, Gary. 1991. Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Cook, Philip. 1987. Robbery Violence. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 70, No. 2.

Wright, James and Peter Rossi. 1986. Armed and Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.


Further Resources

Centers for Disease Control Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
Harvard Injury Control Research Center
 
 
 

Small Arms and Suicide

Small Arms Survey Publications

Florquin, Nicolas and Christina Wille. 2004. A Common Tool: Firearms, Violence, and Crime in Small Arms Survey 2004: Rights at Risk.


Other Articles, Books, and Journals

Shenassa, E., S. Catlin, and S. Buka. 2003. Lethality of Firearms Relative to Other Suicide Methods: A Population-based Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Vol. 57.

Wiebe, Douglas. 2003. Homicide and Suicide Risks Associated with Firearms in the Home: A National Case Control Study. Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 41, Issue 6. June, pp. 771-82.

Wiebe, Douglas. 2003. Guns in the Home: Risky Business. Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) Issue Brief, Vol. 8, No. 8.

Conwell, Yeates, Paul R. Duberstein, Kenneth Connor, Shriley Eberly, Christopher Cox, and Eric D. Caine. 2002. Access to Firearms and Risk for Suicide in Middle-Aged and Older Adults. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Vol. 10.

Brent, David. 2001. Firearms and Suicide. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 932.

Killias, Martin, John van Kesteren, and Zorrin Rindlisbacher. 2001. Guns, Violent Crime, and Suicide in 21 Countries. Canadian Journal of Criminology, Vol. 43, No. 4.

Brent, David, et al. 1994. "Suicide in Affectively Ill Adolescents. A Case Control Study." Journal of Affective Disorders, Vol. 31.

Brent, David, et al. 1993. "Suicides in Adolescents with No Apparent Psychopathology." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 32.

Kellermann, A., et al. 1992. Suicide in the Home in Relation to Gun Ownership. The New England Journal of Medicine. Vol. 327, pp. 467-72.

Brent, David, et al. 1991. The Presence and Accessibility of Firearms in the Homes of Adolescent Suicides: A Case Control Study. Journal of American Medical Association, Vol. 266.

Brent, David, et al. 1988. Risk Factors for Adolescent Suicide: A Comparison of Adolescent Suicide Victims with Suicidal Inpatients. Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 45, No. 2.


Further Resources

Harvard Injury Control Research Center
 
 
 

Small Arms Control and Violence

Instrument / Document

The Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development. Adopted by 42 governments on 7 June 2006.


Small Arms Survey Publications

Aguirre, Katherine, Robert Muggah, Jorge A. Restrepo and Michael Spagat. 2006. Colombia's Hydra: The Many Faces of Gun Violence in Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business.

Florquin, Nicolas and Christina Wille. 2004. A Common Tool: Firearms, Violence, and Crime in Small Arms Survey 2004: Rights at Risk.


Other Articles, Books, and Journals

Muggah, Robert and Keith Krause. 2006. A True Measure of Success? The Discourse and Practice of Human Security in Haiti. The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations. Vol. 7, Nr. 1. pp. 129-141.

Cukier, Wendy and Vic Sidel. 2005. The Global Gun Epidemic: From Saturday Night Specials to AK 47s. New York: Praegar.

CDC. 2003. First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 52, 3 October, pp. 11-20.

Kovandzic, Tomislav V. and Thomas B. Marvell. 2003. Right-to Carry Concealed Handguns and Violent Crime: Crime Control Through Gun Decontrol? Criminology and Public Policy, Vol.2, No.3.

Ludwig, Jens and Philip Cook (Eds.) 2003. Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.

Duwe, G., T. Kovandzic, and C. Moody. 2002. The Impact of Right-to-Carry Concealed Firearm Laws on Mass Public Shootings. Homicide Studies, Vol. 6.

Mouzos, Jenny. 1999. Firearm-related Violence: The Impact of the Nationwide Agreement on Firearms. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Cukier, Wendy. 1998. International Fire/Small Arms Control: Finding the Common Ground. Discussion Paper. Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa: Coalition for Gun Control and Canadian Center for Foreign Policy Development.

Ludwig, Jens. 1998. Concealed-Gun-Carrying Laws and Violent Crime: Evidence from State Panel Data. International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 18.

Sherman, Lawrence, et al. 1998. Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising. Research in Brief. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice. July.

Lott, John R., Jr. and David Mustard. 1997. Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns. Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 26.

Zimring, Franklin. 1991. Firearms, Violence and Public Policy. Scientific American, Vol. 265, No. 5. November, pp. 48-54.


Further Resources

Small Arms / Firearms Education and Research Network (SAFER_Net)
United Nations. 1999. International Study on Firearm Regulation Database, 1999 updated data
Council of Australian Governments, National Handgun Buyback