Conceal Carry and Race: A Test of Minority Threat Theory in Law Generation

Mullins, Christopher W.; Kavish, Daniel Ryan

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“…Combined with the fact that whites historically have viewed themselves as being responsible for keeping minorities from legally obtaining and carrying weapons (Light 2017), it is plausible that many white voters may choose to maintain more restrictive gun laws in some instances. 5 Indeed, the possibility of such a threatinduced outcome is not entirely unprecedented, as a recent cross-sectional study by Mullins and Kavish (2017) finds some evidence-in the form of a negative relationship between changes in black population size and the proportion of county-level votes for less restrictive state CCW laws in Missouri-consistent with this line of reasoning. Accordingly, this study hypothesizes that in states with larger black and Hispanic populations, more permissive CCW laws will be less likely (H5 and H6).…”

Section: Minority Threat Theorymentioning

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Determinants of Variation in State Concealed Carry Laws, 1970–2016

Malone

Steidley

2019

Sociological Forum

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Why do some U.S. states have more permissive concealed carry weapons (CCW) laws than other states? To answer this question, this study tests several plausible social, political, and economic factors thought to affect the likelihood of this outcome over several decades. Models estimated using random‐effects ordered logistic regression reveal that theoretical accounts based on partisan politics, gendered politics, economic threat, and racial threat largely explain variation in CCW laws over time. Tests for interactions, however, reveal that the influence of gubernatorial politics varies according to Republican strength in the legislature and by region. Also, the impact of racial threat on CCW laws is dependent on the crime rate. Overall, this research advances the literature by simultaneously assessing all plausible state‐level CCW policies, incorporating novel threat and political predictors, and utilizing a larger sample size than prior studies.

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Section: Minority Threat Theorymentioning

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Determinants of Variation in State Concealed Carry Laws, 1970–2016

Malone

Steidley

2019

Sociological Forum

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Gun‐free Zones? Political Opportunities, Resource Mobilization, and Shooting Sports Organizations at U.S. Colleges and Universities

McElroy

Coley

2020

Sociological Inquiry

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Although the general public often thinks of schools as “gun‐free zones,” a growing number of U.S. colleges and universities recognize shooting sports organizations, enabling students to participate in rifle, pistol, shotgun, skeet, and trap sporting events. Building on recent scholarship that employs political opportunity and resource mobilization theories to analyze sports, we assess the roles that states’ political characteristics and schools’ resources play in the presence of student shooting sports organizations. Drawing on a comprehensive database of 1,953 four‐year colleges and universities in the United States, and employing logistic regression analyses, we show that Republican‐leaning states, schools with larger, mostly white, and majority men student bodies, and schools with Republican student organizations serve as conducive environments for shooting sports organizations. This article represents the most comprehensive study to date of shooting sports in U.S. schools and contributes to literatures on the sociology of guns, the sociology of sports, and social movements.

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Extremists: Criminals and Victims of Radical Violence

Kirilenko

Alekseev

2019

Russian Journal of Criminology

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The radical political violence outgoing from extremist communities became the most dangerous trend in the modern criminal dynamics. The victims of crimes committed by suicide terrorists are not only those who are subject to political and ideological violence, but also absolutely random people outside the field of politics. The actual perpetrators of mass homicide, including the most brutal acts of terrorism, are extremists with homicide-suicidal syndrome, interested in the society’s attention to them, convinced, in an irrational way, that absolutely all people are guilty of their problems. The fate of extremists and victims of their radical violence is not always directly determined by the level of unemployment or organized relations between the rule of law state and other social management institutions. These well-known criminological determinants affect the form of extremist actions and crimes, they may lower the level of extremist aggression, but do not change the motives of criminals. The higher the quality of life in the country, the less frequently mass homicide will happen, but it is likely to use high tech. Limiting the use of firearms by extremists, we are confronted with their attempts to adapt vehicles for deadly purposes. The actions of extremists do not reflect any real political struggle for freedom and independence, for religious values, for social justice; in practice, there is irrational extremism — a new socio-political phenomenon of active criminal protest against the very idea of humanism. Violent extremism emerges against the background of a certain social situation: 1) low efficiency of social policy; 2) isolation of an individual from civil society institutions and state structures; 3) desperate human desire for self-realization that is set against universal indifference to the problems of an individual. Under the influence of criminogenic factors, an extremist’s personality may become the object of manipulation by terrorist groups and other criminal communities.

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Conceal Carry and Race: A Test of Minority Threat Theory in Law Generation

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

Determinants of Variation in State Concealed Carry Laws, 1970–2016

Determinants of Variation in State Concealed Carry Laws, 1970–2016

Gun‐free Zones? Political Opportunities, Resource Mobilization, and Shooting Sports Organizations at U.S. Colleges and Universities

Extremists: Criminals and Victims of Radical Violence

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