Guns and Suicides

Cerqueira, Daniel Ricardo de Castro; Coelho, Danilo Santa Cruz; Fernandes, Marcelo; Pinto, Jony Arrais

doi:10.1080/00031305.2017.1419144

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“…We empirically evaluate the new indicator of gun prevalence of Cerqueira et al (2018) and demonstrate that it correlates with the percentage of households with firearms more than the prevailing proxy based on the proportion of suicides committed with a firearm.…”

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“…Second, it ignores the detailed victim information commonly available in mortality data. To address these limitations, Cerqueira et al (2018) exploit the socioeconomic characteristics of suicide victims in order to come up with a novel proxy for gun ownership. Specifically, they estimate a discrete choice model for the likelihood of committing suicide with a firearm controlling for the personal characteristics of the victims as well as fixed effects.…”

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“…They derive the conditions under which the fixed effects reflect gun prevalence in the geographic area where the suicides occur. Based on suicide data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, Cerqueira et al (2018) estimate this proxy for Brazilian micro regions. However, since there are no comprehensive survey data available with information on gun ownership in Brazil, they were not able to validate their proxy.…”

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A Panel-based Proxy for Gun Prevalence in the US

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There is a consensus that the proportion of suicides committed with a firearm is the best proxy for gun ownership prevalence. Cerqueira et al. (2108) exploit the socioeconomic characteristics of suicide victims in order to develop a new and more refined proxy. It is based on the fixed effects of the victim's place of residence estimated from a discrete choice model for the likelihood of committing suicide with gun. We empirically assess this new indicator using gun ownership data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and suicide registers of the US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) from 1995 through 2004. We demonstrate that this new gun proxy provides significant gains in correlation with the percentage of households with firearms.

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“…Data on gun availability is very patchy, and for obvious reasons the volume of illegal guns which are most relevant for homicides is largely unknown. The proportion of suicides committed with firearms is often used as a proxy measure as it is widely available (Cerqueira, Coelho, Fernandes & Junior, 2018). Hemenway, Shinoda-Tagawa & Miller (2002) and Killias, van Kesteren & Rindlisbacher (2001) reported an association between gun availability and female but not male homicide rates using data from a limited number of developed nations.…”

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Lethal Violence: A Global View on Homicide

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2019

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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As the most serious crime, homicide is both relevant and suitable for cross-national comparisons. The global homicide rate of ca. 6 per 100,000 people is an average of hugely diverging national rates ranging from 0.25 in Singapore to ca. 100 in El Salvador. The validity of global homicide statistics suffers from various differences in definitions as well as reporting and registration processes. Both criminal justice and causes of death statistics are used by the World Health Organization to construct rates, yet these are available only for a minority of countries. An overview on homicide in history and non-state societies shows that violence levels were considerably higher compared to those in today’s developed world and have dropped dramatically in Europe and North America during the early modern period. The rates first increased and then declined between ca.1960 and today in most developed nations in a synchronized manner, hinting at common influences. In recent years, homicide trends have shown a polarizing pattern, with increasing rates in Latin America and decreasing rates in most other world regions, especially East Asia and the Pacific, where rates have fallen below the European average concurrent with rising scores on the Human Development Index. Except in Eastern Europe, the frequency of homicide is strongly linked to the use of firearms, which account for 44% of homicide cases worldwide. Longitudinal studies have produced robust evidence for the pivotal role of deprivation and inequality in fostering lethal violence and of social welfare policies in reducing it. Although the transition to democratic political systems seems to increase homicide rates temporarily, the legitimacy of state institutions and the suppression of corruption are connected to lower homicide rates. Because of conceptual and methodological problems, questions concerning the generalizability of effects across space and time remain. Nevertheless, the research findings are sufficiently robust to draw important conclusions for violence prevention: reductions in poverty and income inequality, investments in welfare policies and gender equality, and improvements in the legitimacy of state institutions will help to bring homicide rates down.

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TD 2687 - Uma Proxy Para a Prevalência de Armas de Fogo Baseada em Painel de Dados dos Estados Unidos

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Existe um consenso de que a proporção de suicídios cometidos com arma de fogo, em relação ao total de suicídios, é a melhor proxy para a prevalência de posse de armas. Cerqueira et al. (2018) exploram as características socioeconômicas das vítimas de suicídio, a fim de desenvolver uma nova e mais refinada proxy. Esta baseia-se nos efeitos fixos do local de residência da vítima, estimados a partir de um modelo de escolha discreta para a probabilidade de cometer suicídio com arma de fogo. Avaliamos empiricamente este novo indicador usando dados de posse de armas de fogo do Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BFRSS) e registros de suicídio do US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) de 1995 a 2004. Demonstramos que a nova proxy tem maior correlação com a proporção de domicílios com armas de fogo que a proxy tradicional baseada na proporção de suicídios cometidos com arma de fogo.

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Guns and Suicides

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

A Panel-based Proxy for Gun Prevalence in the US

A Panel-based Proxy for Gun Prevalence in the US

Lethal Violence: A Global View on Homicide

TD 2687 - Uma Proxy Para a Prevalência de Armas de Fogo Baseada em Painel de Dados dos Estados Unidos

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