Thinking about gun violence

Cook, Philip J.

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“…Gun violence in the US remains a persistent public health challenge. 1 The US gun homicide rate is nearly 25 times higher than that of any other high-income country, 2 amounting to 13 938 deaths in 2019 alone. Although much has been made of a spike in gun violence since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to note that, at least through 2019, crime and violence declined steadily for the past 3 decades.…”

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Assessment of Case Fatality Rates and Overall Prevalence of Firearm Violence in California, 2005-2019

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Assessment of Case Fatality Rates and Overall Prevalence of Firearm Violence in California, 2005-2019

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“…Indeed, Stolzenberg and D'Alessio (2000) found that America's high rates of gun violence can be attributed to illegal gun ownership rather than to broad legal gun availability. The line between controlling legal and illegal gun ownership, however, becomes complicated because “the supply of guns to offenders involves the diversion of guns from legal commerce and ownership, a process that is facilitated in a community where gun ownership is prevalent” (Cook, 2020, p. 2). Accordingly, gun policy intended to reduce gun violence necessarily extends to legal gun ownership, whether directly or indirectly (Cook et al., 2002).…”

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“…Another influential facet of American politics is gun rights—few issues evoke more anger or are more politically divisive (Conley, 2019; Spitzer, 2016). At the crux of the gun debate lies concerns about personal and public safety (Joslyn, 2020)—specifically, about the role of guns in both producing and preventing violent crime (Carlson, 2020a; Cook, 2020; Zimring, 2020). Indeed, “Framed by assassinations, mass shootings, and violent crime, the gun debate feeds on our deepest national anxieties.…”

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Are guns the new dog whistle? Gun control, racial resentment, and vote choice*

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Two principal movers of American politics appear increasingly to be connected: racism and guns. The racial content underlying gun rights rhetoric, however, is rarely made explicit during political campaigns. As such, it is possible that espousing pro-gun messages may be an effective way to surreptitiously court prejudiced voters without transgressing popular egalitarian norms. In other words, gun rights rhetoric may function as a racial dog whistle. In the present study, we test this theory using data from a survey experiment conducted with a national sample of registered voters. The findings from our experiment show that election candidates' National Rifle Association (NRA)-funding status and position on gun control impact voters' evaluations, and racial resentment moderates these effects. Racially resentful voters are more likely than low-resentment voters to say they would vote for a candidate when the candidate is funded by the NRA and does not support gun control. This is true among voters who own guns and among those who do not, and it is true regardless of the candidate's political party. The findings also show that there is a backlash effect among low-resentment voters-such individuals are aversive to NRA-funded candidates but strongly supportive of pro-gun control candidates.

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“…The fear produced by gun violence, and the dangers involved in participating in such violence, are significant factors in relation to violent drug markets. The cost in deaths, injuries, and suicides are a central aspect of gun carrying (Cook, 2020). The trade in drugs and gun violence produce huge costs not only in terms of death and suffering among the individuals directly involved, but also for society as a whole in terms of unsafety, living conditions and the wellbeing of neighborhoods (Cook, 2020).…”

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“…The cost in deaths, injuries, and suicides are a central aspect of gun carrying (Cook, 2020). The trade in drugs and gun violence produce huge costs not only in terms of death and suffering among the individuals directly involved, but also for society as a whole in terms of unsafety, living conditions and the wellbeing of neighborhoods (Cook, 2020). Fear leads to people and businesses moving away if they can (Skogan, 1992;Fisher, 1991).…”

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Open drug scenes and the merging of policing practice and research: a pracademic approach

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Policing research has had an upswing as the evidence-based policing movement has grown stronger and entered police practises worldwide. Within the evidence-based policing (EBP) approach, practically and academically skilled individuals, pracademics, have attracted attention as facilitating the merging of policing practice and research. Using principles from EBP, and with a special focus on translating between policing practice, policy and research, this thesis aims to explore the characteristics of illicit drug markets with a place-based focus and to link this to the enhancement of EBP in Sweden. The theoretical base of the thesis is drawn from disorganization theory, routine activity theory and situational action theory, and these theories are combined with empirical studies from the research field of drug markets. Drug markets are defined as open drug scenes (ODSs) in this pracademic thesis, which includes two empirical studies of patterns that characterize ODSs, one randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a law enforcement tactic at an ODS, and one case study of the impact of the pracademic research approach. The findings show that there are almost 50 ODSs in Stockholm County, which are characterized by patterns of crime concentration, a gun violence overlap, and associations with perceptions of unsafety. Three types of ODSs were identified, providing a basis for the tailoring of future interventions based on area characteristics, ODS stability, levels of violence, and gang activity. Micro places associated with ODSs and gun violence were found to be characterized by harsh social conditions and high levels of crime. A predictive index was created to forecast micro places at which gun violence may occur, and the prediction was enhanced when ODSs were included as predictive locations. The RCT, which was completed at a well-known ODS in the inner city of Stockholm, showed a slight but non-significant effect of the police conducting motivational talks with offenders, which gave rise to questions regarding the method’s effectiveness. The case study of the RCT process found frustration in police departments to be a possible door-opener for research. Ease of implementation was associated with the research having credibility among police officers, which was achieved by including the needs of practice in research questions and through the role played by the pracademic researcher. This thesis argues for making use of pracademics to bridge the research-practice gap, a focus on ODSs, and the testing and tracking of methods such as hot spots policing, with an emphasis on properly implemented evidence-based methods and on the goals of enforcement strategies as a means of improving the effectiveness of drug-market policing.

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Thinking about gun violence

Cited by 19 publications

References 88 publications

Assessment of Case Fatality Rates and Overall Prevalence of Firearm Violence in California, 2005-2019

Assessment of Case Fatality Rates and Overall Prevalence of Firearm Violence in California, 2005-2019

Are guns the new dog whistle? Gun control, racial resentment, and vote choice*

Open drug scenes and the merging of policing practice and research: a pracademic approach

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