Using data from a survey of detainees in a Washington D.C. Criminals who are shot are typically the victims of crime Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Gun threats against and self-defense gun use by California adolescents. Males, smokers, binge drinkers, those who threatened others and whose parents were less likely to know their whereabouts were more likely both to be threatened with a gun and to use a gun in self-defense. We found that these young people were far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use a gun in self-defense, and most of the reported self-defense gun uses were hostile interactions between armed adolescents. We analyzed data from a telephone survey of 5,800 California adolescents aged 12-17 years, which asked questions about gun threats against and self-defense gun use by these young people. Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense
In the safety of your own home: Results from a national survey of gun use at home. We found that guns in the home are used more often to frighten intimates than to thwart crime other weapons are far more commonly used against intruders than are guns.Īzrael, Deborah R Hemenway, David. Using data from a national random-digit-dial telephone survey conducted under the direction of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, we investigated how and when guns are used in the home. Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime The relative frequency of offensive and defensive gun use: Results of a national survey. All reported cases of criminal gun use, as well as many of the so-called self-defense gun uses, appear to be socially undesirable. We found that firearms are used far more often to frighten and intimidate than they are used in self-defense.
Using data from a national random-digit-dial telephone survey conducted under the direction of the Harvard Injury Control Center, we examined the extent and nature of offensive gun use. Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense
Gun use in the United States: Results from two national surveys. Hemenway, David Miller, Matthew Azrael, Deborah. Criminal court judges who read the self-reported accounts of the purported self-defense gun use rated a majority as being illegal, even assuming that the respondent had a permit to own and to carry a gun, and that the respondent had described the event honestly from his own perspective. We analyzed data from two national random-digit-dial surveys conducted under the auspices of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal The gun debate’s new mythical number: How many defensive uses per year? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 1997 10:6-10.Ĭook, Philip J Ludwig, Jens Hemenway, David. Chance (American Statistical Association). The myth of millions of annual self-defense gun uses: A case study of survey overestimates of rare events. Survey research and self-defense gun use: An explanation of extreme overestimates. We find that the claim of many millions of annual self-defense gun uses by American citizens is invalid. We then try to validate the claims of many millions of annual self-defense uses against available evidence. We use epidemiological theory to explain why the “false positive” problem for rare events can lead to large overestimates of the incidence of rare diseases or rare phenomena such as self-defense gun use. Guns are not used millions of times each year in self-defense
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