The smoking gun: How gun policies influence types of firearms involved in violent crimes in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The smoking gun: How gun policies influence types of firearms involved in violent crimes in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom

Published:2022-11-01 Issue: Volume: Page:174889582211340
ISSN:1748-8958
Container-title:Criminology & Criminal Justice
language:en
Short-container-title:Criminology & Criminal Justice

Author:

Zouhar Ladislav¹,Bartoszewicz Monika Gabriela²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Masaryk University, Czech Republic

2. UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Abstract

The article contributes to the discussion about gun control by examining whether restrictions on certain types of firearms influence the number of crimes committed with these types of guns. The aim is to determine whether there is any causal nexus between the stringency of gun policy and the number of violent crimes committed with firearms. A comparative analysis is conducted in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. Our research shows that the strictness of gun policy and legal availability have a very small influence on crime; hence, further restrictions will not help to reduce the number of violent crimes committed with firearms. More useful approaches seem to deal with the black market, arms trafficking and related societal problems.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Law

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/17488958221134059

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