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Firearms and violence a critical review
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Firearms and violence [electronic resource] : a critical review / Committee to Improve Research Information and Data on Firearms ; Charles F. Wellford, John V. Pepper, and Carol V. Petrie, editors ; Committee on Law and Justice, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
ISBN
0309091241 (hardcover)
0309546400 (pdf)
Published
Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2004.
Physical Description
xii, 328 p.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Access rectricted by licensing agreement.
Other formats
Also available in electronic form on the National Academies Press Web site.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 23, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Data for measuring firearms violence and ownership
Firearms, injury, and crime
Interventions aimed at illegal firearm acquisition
The use of guns to defend against criminals
Right-to-carry laws
Firearms and suicide
Firearm injury prevention programs
Criminal justice interventions to reduce gun violence.
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