The Effect of Massachusetts' Gun Control Law On Gun-Related Crimes in the City of Boston

Stuart Jay Deutsch, Francis B. Alt

Evaluation Quarterly · 1977 · 81 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

The impact on gun-related crime of legislative changes involving Massachusetts' Gun Control Law is evaluated. Viewing crime rates as realizations from some underlying stochastic processes, a procedure for measuring intervention effects on crime rates is presented. Time series on gun-related crimes for the city of Boston are analyzed with this procedure in evaluating the impact of the gun control law.

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