Although part of me thinks it is hopeless to think that either side in the debate over whether more guns leads to more crime or less crime will yield any ground to the other, as an outsider I see some possible common ground in the scholarship. If I had to come to a conclusion basedContinueContinue reading “Implications of Initial Foray into the Guns and Crime Research”
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My Initial Take on the More Guns, More or Less Crime Debate
In response to my post on Michael Glassner’s anti-gun sentiments in his “Culture of Fear” book, my fellow sociologist Matt Loveland pointed me to an article by economist Mark Duggan called “More Guns, More Crime,” published in the Journal of Political Economy in October 2001 (volume 109, number 5, pages 1086-1114). Duggan’s abstract reads: ThisContinueContinue reading “My Initial Take on the More Guns, More or Less Crime Debate”
Concealed Carry Nation: Understanding Armed Citizens in 21st Century America
THE FOLLOWING IS A PROPOSAL I WROTE IN OCTOBER 2012 (PRE-SANDY HOOK) TO SECURE FUNDING FOR A RESEARCH PROJECT ON AMERICA AS A “CONCEALED CARRY NATION,” PART OF A LARGER PROJECT I AM INITIATING ON AMERICA’S GUN CULTURES. On July 20th of this year, James Holmes entered a midnight screening of The Dark Knight RisesContinueContinue reading “Concealed Carry Nation: Understanding Armed Citizens in 21st Century America”
My New Research on America’s Gun Cultures – From Tragedy to Understanding
In the fall of 2001, I received word that I would spend the 2002-2003 academic year at the University of Virginia’s Center on Religion and Democracy. I had a postdoctoral fellowship to work on my book, The Catholic Church in State Politics, which focused on the role of conferences of Catholic bishops in lobbying stateContinueContinue reading “My New Research on America’s Gun Cultures – From Tragedy to Understanding”