More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics): Amazon.de: John R. , Jr. Lott: Englische Bücher

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Taschenbuch: 321 Seiten
Verlag: Univ of Chicago Pr; Auflage: 0002 (Juli 2000)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0226493644
ISBN-13: 978-0226493640
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 22,6 x 15,2 x 2,6 cm

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Multiple regression analyses are rarely the subject of heated public debate or 225-page books for laypeople. But John R. Lott, Jr.'s study in the January 1997 Journal of Legal Studies showing that concealed-carry weapons permits reduced the crime rate set off a firestorm. The updated study, together with illustrative anecdotes and a short description of the political and academic response to the study, as well as responses to the responses, makes up Lott's informative More Guns, Less Crime.

In retrospect, it perhaps should not have been surprising that increasing the number of civilians with guns would reduce crime rates. The possibility of armed victims reduces the expected benefits and increases the expected costs of criminal activity. And, at the margin at least, people respond to changes in costs, even for crime, as Nobel-Prize winning economist [TAG]Gary Becker showed long ago. Allusions to the preferences of criminals for unarmed victims have seeped into popular culture; Ringo, a British thug in Pulp Fiction, noted off-handedly why he avoided certain targets: "Bars, liquor stores, gas stations, you get your head blown off stickin' up one of them."

But Lott's actual quantification of this, in the largest and most comprehensive study of the effects of gun control to date, a study well-detailed in the book, provoked a number of attacks, ranging from the amateurish to the subtly misleading, desperate to discredit him. Lott takes the time to refute each argument; it's almost touching the way he footnotes each time he telephones an attacker who eventually hangs up on him without substantiating any of their claims.

Lott loses a little focus when he leaves his firm quantitative base; as an economist, he should know that the low number of rejected background checks under the Brady Bill doesn't demonstrate anything by itself, because some people may have been deterred from even undergoing the background check in the first place, but he attacks the bill on this ground anyway. But the conclusions that are backed by evidence--that concealed-weapons permits reduce crime, and do so at a lower cost to society than increasing the number of police or prisons--are important ones that should be considered by policymakers. --Ted Frank -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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An intriguing and shocking took at crime, guns, and gun control policy. Lott (Law/Univ. of Chicago) writes with a relentless distaste for conventional wisdom, such as the belief that most people are killed by someone they know. That category, Lott protests, is simply too large to be meaningful, and he takes to task the notion that concealed guns increase crime. To Lott's mind, citizens who carry concealed guns protect themselves against both friends and strangers and prevent the death of innocent citizens. Lott cites a host of cases where armed victims managed to outwit or kill their attackers. Common sense approaches like gun buyback programs or waiting periods for gun parchases, the hallmark of the Brady Bill, also seem useless to Lott. He draws on studies and data to suggest that an armed citizen is a safe citizen. Lott stresses that many western states like Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma have nondiscretionary handgun laws, and crime is significantly lower in those areas. Sure to raise questions and some controversy, and hopefully will draw attention to the complex issue of crime and potential solutions. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Die ungeschönte Wahrheit über ein gemiedenes Thema. 24. M�rz 2011

Von Uwe St�ssel

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Leider nur in englischer Sprache erhältlich, aber nach den ersten paar Seiten ist man wieder "drin". Für Deutschland unbequeme und deshalb gern verschwiegene, wenn nicht sogar agressiv bekämpfte Wahrheit: "Mehr Waffen (in Privathand) gleich weniger Kriminalität."
An hand von hunderten Beispielen aus aller Welt wird erklärt, dass sich Verbrecher (logisch!!)gern wehrlose Opfer aussuchen. Aber auch köstliche Gegenbeispiele wie z.B. geplante Terrorakte nicht stattfanden, weil fast alle die, die Opfer werden sollten, bewaffnet waren und den schlecht informierten Möchtegern - Terroristen gezeigt haben, wo der Hammer hängt.

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Kleck's book is better 10. Juni 2000

Von Mr T. Lambert

This book is a greatly expanded version of a paper published by Lott and Mustard in 1997. In that paper they claimed that laws allowing the concealed carry of handguns caused significant decreases in violent crime. The paper was Lott's first publication on firearms policy and unfortunately Lott's inexperience with this subject shows.

Contrast the treatment of the topic of gun ownership in Lott's book with that in another book by a pro-gun scholar, Gary Kleck's "Targeting Guns". Lott looks at the results of two exit polls, conducted in 1988 and 1996 and concludes that the percentage of the population that owned guns increased by 50% in just eight years. Kleck looks at 86 different surveys, going back to 1959, as well as half a century of gun sales data, which show that the gun ownership percentage has not changed since 1959. Kleck's conclusion is obviously the better supported one.

Lott does a better job in his statistical analysis which found the the introduction of concealed carry laws was associated with declines in violent crime rates. That is because this analysis is in his area of expertise, econometrics. Unfortunately, his unfamiliarity with firearms research betrays him when he interprets this result to mean that the laws caused the decrease in crime. Kleck's book contains details of surveys of gun carrying that show that the number of people that get permits for concealed carry is much less than the number of people who carry illegally, that is, the laws did not make a significant difference to a criminal's chance of encountering an armed victim. Kleck concludes that the crime decreases were probably caused by some factor other than the carry laws.

There are many more errors of fact and interpretation in Lott's book, too many to list here.

So why does the pro-gun book by Kleck have a sales rank of 72,000 while the pro-gun book by Lott have a rank of 1264? I think the reason is that Lott goes well beyond what the data supports to claim that more guns cause less crime. Kleck sticks with a position that is supportable by the data - that the bad and good uses of guns mostly cancel out, leaving little net effect on crime. Pro-gun readers would rather hear Lott's message, even if it's wrong.

Readers looking for a pro-gun book should buy Kleck's book, rather than Lott's. Lott's book is only useful for those readers who are interested in the details of Lott's multivariate statistical analysis.

Superb documentation 9. Juni 2000

Von Brian E Thorn

Format:Taschenbuch

John Lott has done the entire country a service by eliminating the "he said - she said" rhetoric between gun rights and gun control advocates and providing us with clear and substantiated documentation. He has shown without a doubt that the presence of firearms, and specifically concealed handguns, has a dramatic impact in the reduction of violent crime.