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From page 317... ... , Aggregation, of individual survey responses, 37, 40�41, 44, 48, 87 58�59 Ashcroft, John, 278 Aggregation bias, 166 Assault weapons, banning to reduce AGVQ. See Attitudes Toward Guns and criminal access to firearms, 96�97 Violence Questionnaire Assaults American Civil Liberties Union, 236 aggravated, 64�65 Analytic framework of illegal firearm sexual, with firearm involvement, 66 acquisition, 82�87 Assessment general model, 82�86 of individual-level studies, 183 intermediate effects of market subjective, of self-defense with a firearm, interventions, 87 117 using the framework, 86�87 Assessment of ecological studies, 163�170 Analyzing estimates for robustness, 139�150 ecological bias, 170 dummy variable model with common proxy measures of ownership, 164�170 time pattern, 140�141 substitution and confounders, 163�164 317 Read the entire page →
From page 318... ... , 164, 195 "Response to Wilson's Dissent," 18, BJS. See Bureau of Justice Statistics 272�275 Black and Nagin's results, 129, 132�133 trend model analysis, 274�275 Boston Gun Project, 10, 236�240 Comprehensiveness in developing useful Brady Centers to Prevent Gun Violence, 213 research data, 44�45 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, context, 45 93�94 scope, 44�45 Breyer, Stephen, 287 Conceptual framework for firearms and BRFSS. Read the entire page →
From page 319... ... See Defensive gun use revised new sets of, 126�127, 139 Dimension reduction, 308n revised original sets of, 122, 125�126 Dimensionality, curse of, 305 Data Elements for Emergency Department Direct causality framework, 153 Systems (DEEDS) , 47 Disaggregate property crimes, estimates of Data for measuring firearms violence and percentage change in, 148 ownership, 18�52 Disaggregate violent crimes, estimates of general objectives for developing useful percentage change in, 146�147 research data, 42�48 Dissent, 18, 269�271 a patchwork of data sets, 20�42 Committee's response to Wilson's, 18, sources of, 15�16 272�275 Data on firearms ownership, use, and Distribution of firearms ownership, 59 markets, 34�42 District of Columbia administrative and convenience samples, handgun ban to reduce criminal access 37�41 to firearms in, 97�98 proxy measures of ownership, 41�42 Personal Protection Act, 279 surveys, 34�37 Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) Read the entire page →
From page 320... ... firearms and fatalities, 117�119 See also Guns probability of injury and loss among aggregation of individual survey victims by means of self-protection, responses, 58�59 115 distribution of firearms ownership across subjective assessments, 117 geographic regions, 59 Emerson, Timothy Joe, 276 estimated number and per capita Empirical evidence, of self-defense with a ownership of firearms in the U.S., 57 firearm, 115�117 production-based estimates, 56�57 Empirical research, contribution to judicial survey-based estimates, 57�58 scrutiny, 297�298 Firearm data Endpoint. See Updated sample endpoint criminal use of firearms, 26�29 Enforcement and law, sources of firearm firearm-related injury/death, 22�25 data on, 28�31 firearms and youth, 28�29 Enhanced sentences for criminal use of firearms industry and retail, 24�27 firearms, 223�230 firearms ownership, 30�31 mandatory penalties for unlawful law and enforcement, 28�31 carrying of guns, 226�229 selected sources of, 22�31 sentencing enhancements for firearm- Firearm injury prevention programs, 18, related crimes, 223�226 201�220 Estimates behavioral interventions, 201�214 analyzing for robustness, 139�150 firearms safety technology, 214�220 modeling of the fraction of homeless in a Firearm involvement city, 307 rate of robbery by, 66 nonparametric, 305�306 rates of aggravated assault by, 65 of relations among crime rates, the Firearm possession, felons and, 77�78, 294n explanatory variables, and adoption Firearm prevalence, psychological autopsy of right-to-carry laws, 304�308 studies of, 173�181 Explanatory variables Firearm-related crimes, sentencing choosing, 299�304, 308 enhancements for, 223�226 and hypothetical crime rates by year, Firearm-related harm, 59�71 301 and accidents, 70�71 External validity, in firearms use surveys, murder victimization rates by race, 63 111�113 and nonfatal injuries, 64�66 nonfatal injuries by intent, 60 overall firearm-related deaths, 60 Read the entire page →
From page 321... ... , for St. U.S., 57 Louis youth, 235�236 sources of data on, 30�31 Firearms and homicides, 61�64 Firearms prevention programs, 202�209 firearm-related murder victimization Firearms research, standards and methods rates by race, 63 for, 16�18 international, 55 Firearms safety technology, 214�220 offenders, 64 child access prevention laws, 217�219 victims, 62�63 locking technology, 215�217 weaponry in homicide, 61�62 Firearms trace data, BATF, 79�80 Firearms and nonfatal injuries, 64�66 Firearms Tracing Center, 38 aggravated assault, 64�65 Firearms use surveys, replication and rape and sexual assaults, 66 recommendations in, 113�114 robberies, 65�66 Firearms violence Firearms and self-harm, 66�69 and ownership, data for measuring, 18� nonfatal self-harm, 69 52 suicide, 66�69 sources of data for research on, 15�16 Firearms and suicide, 18, 66�69, 152�200 First Amendment principles, 292, 296 conceptual framework, 153 Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process Clause cross-sectional studies of gun laws and, of, 288 184 Frameworks. Read the entire page →
From page 322... ... See also individual laws Household gun ownership, relationship cross-sectional studies of, 184 with suicides using a firearm, 167 the difference made by, 184�192 Hunters, 12�13 mandatory penalties for unlawful Hybrid variable model, 132�133 carrying of guns, 226�229 quasi-experimental studies of, 192�193 Gun ownership I associations with suicide rates across time, 162�163 ICECI. See International Classification of proxy measures of, 41�42, 164�170, External Causes of Injury Illegal firearm acquisition 194 Gun purchasers, recent, risk of suicide demand for, 84�85 among, 181�183 interventions aimed at, 18, 72�101 model of, 82�86 Gun sources BATF firearms trace data, 79�80 supply of, 85�86 BATF investigation data, 80�82 Illegal firearms commerce, 73�77 Inaccurate response, in firearms use surveys, interpreting the data, 82 for offenders obtaining firearms, 77�82 109�110 survey research, 77�79 Incorporation question, 287�288 Indianapolis, Indiana, directed patrol volume of firearms diverted through trafficking channels, 81 project in, 232�233 Guns Individual-level studies assessment of, 183 limitation of sales, to reduce criminal access to firearms, 92�93 improving, 195�196 used to defend against criminals, 18, Individual-level studies of association between firearms and suicide, 171� 102�119 vintage of, 88�89 184 Guns & Ammo (magazine) Read the entire page →
From page 323... ... See also Behavioral firearms flows, 75 interventions; Criminal justice Limitation of gun sales, to reduce criminal interventions, to reduce firearm- access to firearms, 92�93 related violence; Market-based Locking technology, 215�217 interventions Lott, John, 120, 269 banning assault weapons, 96�97 Lott's results, 125�127, 269�275 District of Columbia handgun ban, 97� dummy variable model with common 98 time pattern, 126�127 gun buy-backs, 95�96 in statistical analyses of right-to-carry in illegal firearm acquisition, 89�98 laws, 125�127 limiting gun sales, 92�93 trend model with common time pattern, regulating gun dealers, 89�92 128�129 screening gun buyers, 93�95 Interventions to reduce illegal firearm acquisition, 18, 72�101 M analytic framework, 82�87 offenders obtaining firearms, 73�82 Mandatory penalties, for unlawful carrying substitution, 88�89 of guns, 226�229 Interventions to reduce violence and suicide, Market-based interventions, 8 8�10 and illegal firearm acquisition, 87 criminal justice interventions, 9�10 intermediate effects of, 87 prevention programs and technology, 9 McClure-Volkmer Act, 16n, 50 recommendations on, 8�10 Mental unsoundness, and firearm restricting access, 8�9 possession, 294n Investigation data, BATF, 80�82 Methodological approaches, 4�5 description of, 121�125 for firearms research, 16�18 J Methods, of handgun acquisition by criminals, 78 Joyce Foundation, 13 Model of illegal firearm acquisition, 82�86. Judicial scrutiny See also Trend model analysis of challenged gun control regulations, demand, 84�85 276�298 supply, 85�86 contribution of empirical research to, Monitoring the Future (MTF) Read the entire page →
From page 324... ... , 34, 162 Offenders, 64 National Research Council, 3, 16, 108n, Offenders obtaining firearms, 73�82 116n, 234, 239, 269 gun sources, 77�82 National Review (magazine) , 306 in illegal firearm acquisition, 73�82 National Rifle Association (NRA) Read the entire page →
From page 325... ... See Primary sampling units Police Foundation, 75, 86 Psychological autopsy studies, of firearm Police gun suppression patrols, in prevalence, 173�181 Pittsburgh, 233 "Pulling-levers" focused deterrence Policing gun violence hot spots, 230�235 approach, applications of, 237, 240� Indianapolis, Indiana, directed patrol 241 project, 232�233 Kansas City Gun Project, 231�232 lessons learned, 234�235 Q New York Police Department's street crime unit, 233�234 Quality police gun suppression patrols in of data, 16 of the research, 213�214 Pittsburgh, 233 Policing violent gun offenders, 235�241 Quasi-experimental studies of gun laws and Boston Gun Project and Operation suicide, 192�193 Ceasefire, 236�239 lessons learned, 241 R other applications of the pulling-levers focused deterrence approach, 240� RAND Corporation, 235 241 Rape, with firearm involvement, 66 St. Louis youth Firearm Suppression "Rare outcome assumption," 197 Program, 235�236 "Reasonable" infringements, on the Second supply-side programs, 239�240 Amendment right, 295�297 Policy studies, recommendations for needed, Recommendations, 3�5, 192�196 196 data systems, 194�195 Potential criminal encounters, stages and defensive gun use, 6�7 outcome of, 107 emerging data systems on violent events, Presser v. Read the entire page →
From page 326... ... See Right-to-carry laws 47 timeliness, 48 Research recommendations, 5�10 S deterrence and defense, 6�7 firearms, criminal violence, and suicide, Safety technology, 214�220 5�6 Samples. See also Updated sample endpoint administrative and convenience, 37�41 interventions to reduce violence and suicide, 8�10 Sampling design, comparing the NCVS and RESET test, 307 NSDS, 104 Scalia, Antonin, 286 Response problems in firearms use surveys, 108�114 Scofflaws, among FFLs, 90 external validity, 111�113 Scope in developing useful research data, 44� inaccurate response, 109�110 nonresponse, 110�111 45 replication and recommendations, 113� of the Second Amendment right, 289� 292 114 "Response" to Wilson's "Dissent," 18, Screening of gun buyers, to reduce criminal 272�275 access to firearms, 93�95 Second Amendment right, 276�298 committee control variable analysis, 273�274 the federal courts of appeals and, 284 committee trend model analysis, 274� "gun control" and, 14�15 individual right interpretation of, 280� 275 published studies, 273 288 Restricted access, 8�9 "infringements" on, 292�294 U.S. Read the entire page →
From page 327... ... , 235�236 aggregation of individual responses, 58� Stages, of potential criminal encounters, 107 59 Standard errors, in statistical analyses of coverage of defensive gun use surveys, right-to-carry laws, 137�139 105�108 Standardization in developing useful survey-based estimates, 57�58 research data, 45�47 Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems, 47 T International Classification of External Causes of Injury, 47 Technology of firearms safety, 214�220 Standards, for firearms research, 16�18 STAR. See Straight Talk about Risks of locking, 215�217 Statistical analyses of right-to-carry laws, and prevention programs, 9 "Third factor" confounder framework, 153 125�139 control variables and specification, 128� Thomas, Clarence, 286 135 Time series studies of gun laws and suicide, 185�192 Lott's results, 125�127 standard errors in, 137�139 cross-sectional studies of gun laws and summary of selected studies, 130�133 suicide, 186�189 interrupted-time-series studies of gun trend in the logarithm of the violent crime rate, 135 laws and suicide, 188�191 updated sample endpoint, 135�137 quasi-experimental studies of gun laws and suicide, 192�193 Statistical issues in the evaluation of the effects of right-to-carry laws, 18, Timeliness, of research data, 48 299�308 Trafficking channels, volume of firearms diverted through, 81 choosing the explanatory variables, 299� 304 Trend model analysis, 92, 132�133 estimating the relation to crime rates and committee, 274�275 with common time pattern, 128�129, the explanatory variables, 304�308 Stevens, John Paul, 287 142�143 "Stopping rule," 172 with varying postlaw change durations, 150�151 Straight Talk about Risks (STAR) Read the entire page →
From page 328... ... homicide rates, 56 World Health Organization, 47 V Y Victims, 62�63 YCGII. See Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Vintage, of guns, 88�89 Initiative Violence, interventions to reduce, 8�10 Youth, firearms and, 28�29 Violent Crime Control and Law Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative Enforcement Act, 96 (YCGII) Read the entire page →

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... , Aggregation, of individual survey responses, 37, 40�41, 44, 48, 87 58�59 Ashcroft, John, 278 Aggregation bias, 166 Assault weapons, banning to reduce AGVQ. See Attitudes Toward Guns and criminal access to firearms, 96�97 Violence Questionnaire Assaults American Civil Liberties Union, 236 aggravated, 64�65 Analytic framework of illegal firearm sexual, with firearm involvement, 66 acquisition, 82�87 Assessment general model, 82�86 of individual-level studies, 183 intermediate effects of market subjective, of self-defense with a firearm, interventions, 87 117 using the framework, 86�87 Assessment of ecological studies, 163�170 Analyzing estimates for robustness, 139�150 ecological bias, 170 dummy variable model with common proxy measures of ownership, 164�170 time pattern, 140�141 substitution and confounders, 163�164 317

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... , 164, 195 "Response to Wilson's Dissent," 18, BJS. See Bureau of Justice Statistics 272�275 Black and Nagin's results, 129, 132�133 trend model analysis, 274�275 Boston Gun Project, 10, 236�240 Comprehensiveness in developing useful Brady Centers to Prevent Gun Violence, 213 research data, 44�45 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, context, 45 93�94 scope, 44�45 Breyer, Stephen, 287 Conceptual framework for firearms and BRFSS.

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... See Defensive gun use revised new sets of, 126�127, 139 Dimension reduction, 308n revised original sets of, 122, 125�126 Dimensionality, curse of, 305 Data Elements for Emergency Department Direct causality framework, 153 Systems (DEEDS) , 47 Disaggregate property crimes, estimates of Data for measuring firearms violence and percentage change in, 148 ownership, 18�52 Disaggregate violent crimes, estimates of general objectives for developing useful percentage change in, 146�147 research data, 42�48 Dissent, 18, 269�271 a patchwork of data sets, 20�42 Committee's response to Wilson's, 18, sources of, 15�16 272�275 Data on firearms ownership, use, and Distribution of firearms ownership, 59 markets, 34�42 District of Columbia administrative and convenience samples, handgun ban to reduce criminal access 37�41 to firearms in, 97�98 proxy measures of ownership, 41�42 Personal Protection Act, 279 surveys, 34�37 Drug Use Forecasting (DUF)

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... firearms and fatalities, 117�119 See also Guns probability of injury and loss among aggregation of individual survey victims by means of self-protection, responses, 58�59 115 distribution of firearms ownership across subjective assessments, 117 geographic regions, 59 Emerson, Timothy Joe, 276 estimated number and per capita Empirical evidence, of self-defense with a ownership of firearms in the U.S., 57 firearm, 115�117 production-based estimates, 56�57 Empirical research, contribution to judicial survey-based estimates, 57�58 scrutiny, 297�298 Firearm data Endpoint. See Updated sample endpoint criminal use of firearms, 26�29 Enforcement and law, sources of firearm firearm-related injury/death, 22�25 data on, 28�31 firearms and youth, 28�29 Enhanced sentences for criminal use of firearms industry and retail, 24�27 firearms, 223�230 firearms ownership, 30�31 mandatory penalties for unlawful law and enforcement, 28�31 carrying of guns, 226�229 selected sources of, 22�31 sentencing enhancements for firearm- Firearm injury prevention programs, 18, related crimes, 223�226 201�220 Estimates behavioral interventions, 201�214 analyzing for robustness, 139�150 firearms safety technology, 214�220 modeling of the fraction of homeless in a Firearm involvement city, 307 rate of robbery by, 66 nonparametric, 305�306 rates of aggravated assault by, 65 of relations among crime rates, the Firearm possession, felons and, 77�78, 294n explanatory variables, and adoption Firearm prevalence, psychological autopsy of right-to-carry laws, 304�308 studies of, 173�181 Explanatory variables Firearm-related crimes, sentencing choosing, 299�304, 308 enhancements for, 223�226 and hypothetical crime rates by year, Firearm-related harm, 59�71 301 and accidents, 70�71 External validity, in firearms use surveys, murder victimization rates by race, 63 111�113 and nonfatal injuries, 64�66 nonfatal injuries by intent, 60 overall firearm-related deaths, 60

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... , for St. U.S., 57 Louis youth, 235�236 sources of data on, 30�31 Firearms and homicides, 61�64 Firearms prevention programs, 202�209 firearm-related murder victimization Firearms research, standards and methods rates by race, 63 for, 16�18 international, 55 Firearms safety technology, 214�220 offenders, 64 child access prevention laws, 217�219 victims, 62�63 locking technology, 215�217 weaponry in homicide, 61�62 Firearms trace data, BATF, 79�80 Firearms and nonfatal injuries, 64�66 Firearms Tracing Center, 38 aggravated assault, 64�65 Firearms use surveys, replication and rape and sexual assaults, 66 recommendations in, 113�114 robberies, 65�66 Firearms violence Firearms and self-harm, 66�69 and ownership, data for measuring, 18� nonfatal self-harm, 69 52 suicide, 66�69 sources of data for research on, 15�16 Firearms and suicide, 18, 66�69, 152�200 First Amendment principles, 292, 296 conceptual framework, 153 Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process Clause cross-sectional studies of gun laws and, of, 288 184 Frameworks.

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... See also individual laws Household gun ownership, relationship cross-sectional studies of, 184 with suicides using a firearm, 167 the difference made by, 184�192 Hunters, 12�13 mandatory penalties for unlawful Hybrid variable model, 132�133 carrying of guns, 226�229 quasi-experimental studies of, 192�193 Gun ownership I associations with suicide rates across time, 162�163 ICECI. See International Classification of proxy measures of, 41�42, 164�170, External Causes of Injury Illegal firearm acquisition 194 Gun purchasers, recent, risk of suicide demand for, 84�85 among, 181�183 interventions aimed at, 18, 72�101 model of, 82�86 Gun sources BATF firearms trace data, 79�80 supply of, 85�86 BATF investigation data, 80�82 Illegal firearms commerce, 73�77 Inaccurate response, in firearms use surveys, interpreting the data, 82 for offenders obtaining firearms, 77�82 109�110 survey research, 77�79 Incorporation question, 287�288 Indianapolis, Indiana, directed patrol volume of firearms diverted through trafficking channels, 81 project in, 232�233 Guns Individual-level studies assessment of, 183 limitation of sales, to reduce criminal access to firearms, 92�93 improving, 195�196 used to defend against criminals, 18, Individual-level studies of association between firearms and suicide, 171� 102�119 vintage of, 88�89 184 Guns & Ammo (magazine)

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... See also Behavioral firearms flows, 75 interventions; Criminal justice Limitation of gun sales, to reduce criminal interventions, to reduce firearm- access to firearms, 92�93 related violence; Market-based Locking technology, 215�217 interventions Lott, John, 120, 269 banning assault weapons, 96�97 Lott's results, 125�127, 269�275 District of Columbia handgun ban, 97� dummy variable model with common 98 time pattern, 126�127 gun buy-backs, 95�96 in statistical analyses of right-to-carry in illegal firearm acquisition, 89�98 laws, 125�127 limiting gun sales, 92�93 trend model with common time pattern, regulating gun dealers, 89�92 128�129 screening gun buyers, 93�95 Interventions to reduce illegal firearm acquisition, 18, 72�101 M analytic framework, 82�87 offenders obtaining firearms, 73�82 Mandatory penalties, for unlawful carrying substitution, 88�89 of guns, 226�229 Interventions to reduce violence and suicide, Market-based interventions, 8 8�10 and illegal firearm acquisition, 87 criminal justice interventions, 9�10 intermediate effects of, 87 prevention programs and technology, 9 McClure-Volkmer Act, 16n, 50 recommendations on, 8�10 Mental unsoundness, and firearm restricting access, 8�9 possession, 294n Investigation data, BATF, 80�82 Methodological approaches, 4�5 description of, 121�125 for firearms research, 16�18 J Methods, of handgun acquisition by criminals, 78 Joyce Foundation, 13 Model of illegal firearm acquisition, 82�86. Judicial scrutiny See also Trend model analysis of challenged gun control regulations, demand, 84�85 276�298 supply, 85�86 contribution of empirical research to, Monitoring the Future (MTF)

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... , 34, 162 Offenders, 64 National Research Council, 3, 16, 108n, Offenders obtaining firearms, 73�82 116n, 234, 239, 269 gun sources, 77�82 National Review (magazine) , 306 in illegal firearm acquisition, 73�82 National Rifle Association (NRA)

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... See Primary sampling units Police Foundation, 75, 86 Psychological autopsy studies, of firearm Police gun suppression patrols, in prevalence, 173�181 Pittsburgh, 233 "Pulling-levers" focused deterrence Policing gun violence hot spots, 230�235 approach, applications of, 237, 240� Indianapolis, Indiana, directed patrol 241 project, 232�233 Kansas City Gun Project, 231�232 lessons learned, 234�235 Q New York Police Department's street crime unit, 233�234 Quality police gun suppression patrols in of data, 16 of the research, 213�214 Pittsburgh, 233 Policing violent gun offenders, 235�241 Quasi-experimental studies of gun laws and Boston Gun Project and Operation suicide, 192�193 Ceasefire, 236�239 lessons learned, 241 R other applications of the pulling-levers focused deterrence approach, 240� RAND Corporation, 235 241 Rape, with firearm involvement, 66 St. Louis youth Firearm Suppression "Rare outcome assumption," 197 Program, 235�236 "Reasonable" infringements, on the Second supply-side programs, 239�240 Amendment right, 295�297 Policy studies, recommendations for needed, Recommendations, 3�5, 192�196 196 data systems, 194�195 Potential criminal encounters, stages and defensive gun use, 6�7 outcome of, 107 emerging data systems on violent events, Presser v.

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... See Right-to-carry laws 47 timeliness, 48 Research recommendations, 5�10 S deterrence and defense, 6�7 firearms, criminal violence, and suicide, Safety technology, 214�220 5�6 Samples. See also Updated sample endpoint administrative and convenience, 37�41 interventions to reduce violence and suicide, 8�10 Sampling design, comparing the NCVS and RESET test, 307 NSDS, 104 Scalia, Antonin, 286 Response problems in firearms use surveys, 108�114 Scofflaws, among FFLs, 90 external validity, 111�113 Scope in developing useful research data, 44� inaccurate response, 109�110 nonresponse, 110�111 45 replication and recommendations, 113� of the Second Amendment right, 289� 292 114 "Response" to Wilson's "Dissent," 18, Screening of gun buyers, to reduce criminal 272�275 access to firearms, 93�95 Second Amendment right, 276�298 committee control variable analysis, 273�274 the federal courts of appeals and, 284 committee trend model analysis, 274� "gun control" and, 14�15 individual right interpretation of, 280� 275 published studies, 273 288 Restricted access, 8�9 "infringements" on, 292�294 U.S.

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... , 235�236 aggregation of individual responses, 58� Stages, of potential criminal encounters, 107 59 Standard errors, in statistical analyses of coverage of defensive gun use surveys, right-to-carry laws, 137�139 105�108 Standardization in developing useful survey-based estimates, 57�58 research data, 45�47 Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems, 47 T International Classification of External Causes of Injury, 47 Technology of firearms safety, 214�220 Standards, for firearms research, 16�18 STAR. See Straight Talk about Risks of locking, 215�217 Statistical analyses of right-to-carry laws, and prevention programs, 9 "Third factor" confounder framework, 153 125�139 control variables and specification, 128� Thomas, Clarence, 286 135 Time series studies of gun laws and suicide, 185�192 Lott's results, 125�127 standard errors in, 137�139 cross-sectional studies of gun laws and summary of selected studies, 130�133 suicide, 186�189 interrupted-time-series studies of gun trend in the logarithm of the violent crime rate, 135 laws and suicide, 188�191 updated sample endpoint, 135�137 quasi-experimental studies of gun laws and suicide, 192�193 Statistical issues in the evaluation of the effects of right-to-carry laws, 18, Timeliness, of research data, 48 299�308 Trafficking channels, volume of firearms diverted through, 81 choosing the explanatory variables, 299� 304 Trend model analysis, 92, 132�133 estimating the relation to crime rates and committee, 274�275 with common time pattern, 128�129, the explanatory variables, 304�308 Stevens, John Paul, 287 142�143 "Stopping rule," 172 with varying postlaw change durations, 150�151 Straight Talk about Risks (STAR)

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... homicide rates, 56 World Health Organization, 47 V Y Victims, 62�63 YCGII. See Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Vintage, of guns, 88�89 Initiative Violence, interventions to reduce, 8�10 Youth, firearms and, 28�29 Violent Crime Control and Law Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative Enforcement Act, 96 (YCGII)

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