Reporting Error in Household Gun Ownership in the 2000 General Social Survey

Legault, Richard L.

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“… 9 When the coefficients of a logistic regression are transformed through a simple formula, we may interpret the result as a percentage change in odds of the dependent variable for a one-unit change on the independent variable while holding all other variables constant (Legault, 2008: 85). …”

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Gender ideologies and forms of contentious mobilization in the Middle East

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Journal of Peace Research

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This article explores those factors that shape a political organization’s choice of tactics in political mobilization with a particular focus on the influence of gender ideology on the choice of different type of contentious action. To understand why political organizations engaging in contentious politics choose to employ violent tactics, nonviolent tactics, or a mixture of both, current scholarship has tended to focus on factors such as relationship with the government, external support, and religious or leftist ideology. Far less attention has been given to the role of an organization’s ideology relating to gender when predicting its behavior. In addition, much of the analysis of contentious activity has analyzed the use of violence or protest separately and rarely examines the choice of a mixed strategy. We employ a time-series multinomial logistic regression analysis to examine the Middle East Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior dataset (MAROB), including data over 24 years on 104 ethno-political organizations that have used a range of tactics including protest, violence, and/or a mix of the two, to investigate organizational and state-level variables that lead organizations to choose different strategies. We find that a number of variables can influence a movement’s choice to engage in one strategy over another. Gender-inclusive ideology makes an organization more likely to engage in protest and less likely to choose a violent or mixed strategy.

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Gender ideologies and forms of contentious mobilization in the Middle East

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Journal of Peace Research

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“…Mays and Ruddell (2002), for instance, found that Canada Firearm Centre estimates of Canadian gun ownership were likely to be underestimates. Existing research in the U.S. found significant reporting discrepancies within married couples in the General Social Survey; married women were less likely to report household gun ownership than their male partners (Legault, 2008). The authors attributed this discrepancy to social undesirability bias.…”

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“…The authors attributed this discrepancy to social undesirability bias. Interestingly, the gap between male and female reporting was lessened in areas of the U.S. with a stronger gun culture, suggesting some cultural influence related to social acceptance of gun ownership (Legault, 2008). Future research may be able to better identify the acceptability of guns in cultures across the world.…”

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Beyond self-help

Wallace

2016

International Review of Victimology

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Many crime victims choose not to report their victimization to police or other formal authorities. However, understanding the nature of both reported and underreported crime is critical to proper allocation of criminal justice funding and resources. The present paper examines gun ownership as a potentially overlooked predictor of crime reporting, drawing on Black's theory of self-help as social control. The present study tests whether the self-help orientation of gun owners is associated with a lower likelihood of reporting victimization to police. Data are drawn from the 2000 and 2004/5 waves of the International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS). Hierarchical linear models are used to assess both individual variation and cross-cultural variation. Findings show that gun owners who own their weapons for reasons other than protection are more likely to report their victimization than non-owners. However, gun owners are less likely than non-owners to report their victimization in highly developed nations. Explanations for these findings and avenues for future research are discussed.

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“…One study found that families of boys with single mothers were likely to have substantial reporting error between household members, while other family arrangements were associated with more consistency of firearms ownership reporting (Sorenson and Cook, 2008). Another piece of research found significantly divergent patterns in firearm ownership reporting between married couples, inferring a social desirability suppression effect among women respondents, especially outside “areas with traditional gun culture” (Legault, 2013). A group of criminologists sought to evaluate how the college survey’s method structured responses to questions about guns and gun policy, and found that the in‐class method had a much higher level of non‐response and was systematically exclusive of more controversial and “extreme positions” on guns and gun policy (Wells, Cavanaugh, Bouffard, and Nobles, 2012).…”

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Who Wants to Know? White Racial Attitudes and Survey Item Refusal on Gun Ownership Questions

LeCount

2021

Sociological Inquiry

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Research has long documented the fact that sensitive items on surveys are subject to relatively high levels of item response refusal, but the role played by respondent characteristics in shaping who refuses is underexplored. The present study integrates this methodological literature with a growing body of research concerned with the racialization of attitudes about gun ownership and policy among Whites in order to address this question. Specifically, this project investigates how racial attitudes influence survey item response refusal on items about gun ownership. Analyses of four distinct nationally representative samples suggest that racially conservative White respondents are more likely to refuse to respond to items concerned with gun ownership net of a host of relevant controls. Implications for the measurement of racial attitudes and gun‐related survey questions are discussed.

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Reporting Error in Household Gun Ownership in the 2000 General Social Survey

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Gender ideologies and forms of contentious mobilization in the Middle East

Gender ideologies and forms of contentious mobilization in the Middle East

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Who Wants to Know? White Racial Attitudes and Survey Item Refusal on Gun Ownership Questions

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