In:
International Journal of Police Science & Management, SAGE Publications, Vol. 15, No. 3 ( 2013-09), p. 246-261
Kurzfassung:
The purpose of this study is to examine gun buy-backs as a policy response to gun-related crime. It improves upon past studies by examining a city that has used multiple gun buy-backs as a standard crime prevention approach, allowing the multiple intervention points to be assessed. Further, the study examined crime data over a longer period and included a comparison group of similar crime trends without a gun. Total crime, homicide, robbery and assault data spanning several years are subject to an interrupted time-series analysis. Non-gun crimes served as control variables. Examining the first two intervention dates indicated that the gun buy-back programme had no impact on reducing crimes. Specifically, the gun buy-back programme in the study location reduced gun homicide levels, but results failed to reach statistical significance. When the third intervention date was examined, the gun buy-back programme resulted in a significant decrease in gun robbery levels, controlling for non-gun robbery levels and unemployment rates. The results for gun robbery suggest that gun buy-back programmes may take years to affect crime numbers, although future research is warranted.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1461-3557
,
1478-1603
DOI:
10.1350/ijps.2013.15.3.315
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
SAGE Publications
Publikationsdatum:
2013
ZDB Id:
2112649-5
SSG:
2
SSG:
2,1
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