The Varieties of Homicide and its Research: Proceedings of the 1999 Meeting of the Homicide Research Working Group

Blackman, Paul H.; Leggett, Vanessa Levrier; Olson, Brittawni Lee; Jarvis, Joy

doi:10.1037/e319512004-001

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“…However, the use of gun tracing data to gauge retailers’ willingness to engage in unlawful activity, or even to measure their sales of guns that are later used in crime, has been questioned before. 20 , 21 It is clear that not all crime guns are recovered by law enforcement agencies, that not all recovered guns are traced, and that selection bias may arise at each of these points. 22 The impact of this will be less in states such as California, where many cities trace all recovered guns, than elsewhere.…”

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Firearm Retailers’ Willingness to Participate in an Illegal Gun Purchase

Wintemute

2010

J Urban Health

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Firearm-related violence is a significant public health and public safety problem for cities in the USA, and licensed firearm retailers are an important source of the guns used in that violence. Using a scripted telephone interview, we screened a sample of licensed retailers in California to assess their willingness to participate in the surrogate or “straw” purchase of a handgun; such purchases are illegal under federal law. Of 149 retailers who provided a response, 30 (20.1%) agreed to participate. In multivariate analysis, pawnbrokers were more likely to agree than were gun dealers (odds ratio 6.58, 95% confidence interval 1.99–21.71). Sales of handguns that were later subjected to ownership tracing (a proxy measure for a gun’s use in crime) were not more frequent among retailers who agreed to participate than among others, and other findings were unexpected as well.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s11524-010-9489-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Firearm Retailers’ Willingness to Participate in an Illegal Gun Purchase

Wintemute

2010

J Urban Health

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“…However, the pitfall of the research is that the primary findings are based on one hitman who was convicted of multiple hits. This is also the case for research that has been done through the FBI’s Homicide Working Group, which focuses on murders executed by individual killers (Black, 2000; Black and Cravens, 2001). Indeed, the work of Mouzos and Venditto (2003) is one of the most useful scholarly contributions as it provides a detailed examination of the levels of police intervention and prevention of successful and attempted hits.…”

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Ride to die: masculine honour and collective identity in the motorcycle underworld

Rahman

Lynes

2018

JCRPP

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This article discusses the nature and extent of violent practice in the motorcycle underworld. It does this by considering the murder of Gerry Tobin, and then uses the biography of the founding member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club for a critical analysis. We are interested in understanding the role of masculine honour and collective identity, and its influences in relation to violence-namely fatal violence in the motorcycle underworld. We argue that motorcycle gangs are extreme examples of what Hall (2012) considers 'criminal undertakers'-individuals who take 'special liberties' often as a last resort.

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“…Much debate exists over the types of murders that plague society. Generally, three categories are recognized: serial murder, mass murder, and spree murder (Blackman, Leggett, Olson, & Jarvis, 1999;Fox & Levin, 1998). The distinction between mass murder and spree murder is difficult to make because of conflicting definitions between scholars (Edelstein, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%