Smoking gun? Linking gun ownership to crime victimization

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Billings, Stephen B.
• 署名单位: University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104874
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: Neighborhood crime; Crime victimization; Gun ownership

摘要

Using linked individual data on concealed handgun permits (CHP), reported crimes and arrests, I examine the dynamics of gun-ownership and criminal victimization. I initially show that being male, Republican, older, born in-state and a recent crime victim increases the probability that an adult obtains a CHP. Having a CHP increases property crime victimization by 46% with the largest impact on having a firearm stolen. Individual CHP holders see no change in violent crime victimization thus dispelling any benefits in terms of protection. Obtaining a CHP has a small (2%) increase in total crime and a larger increase on violent crime using a gun (8%) within the CHP holders neighborhood. Results suggest stolen guns spillover to neighborhood crime which is an important component of the larger social costs of gun ownership.& COPY; 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.