TY - JOUR
T1 - Police crackdowns on illegal gun carrying
T2 - A systematic review of their impact on gun crime
AU - Koper, Christopher S.
AU - Mayo-Wilson, Evan
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by grant no. 2004-DD-BX-0003 awarded by the National Institute of Justice (Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice) and by funding from the Campbell Collaboration and the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology (University of Pennsylvania). Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice, the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, or the Campbell Collaboration. The authors thank Daniel J. Woods for research assistance. They also thank David Weisburd and anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on the manuscript.
PY - 2006/6
Y1 - 2006/6
N2 - This paper presents a systematic review of the impact of police strategies to reduce illegal possession and carrying of firearms on gun crime, including directed patrols, monitoring of probationers and parolees, weapon reporting hotlines, and others. Four studies met the inclusion criteria, reporting a total of seven nonrandomized tests of directed patrols focused on gun carrying in three American cities (five tests) and two Colombian cities (two tests). Six of the seven tests (not all of which were independent) suggest that directed patrols reduced gun crime in high-crime places at high-risk times. However, conclusions and generalizations must be qualified based on the small number of studies, variability in study design and analytic strategy across the studies, preintervention differences between intervention and comparison areas, and limited data regarding factors such as implementation, crime displacement, and long-term impact.
AB - This paper presents a systematic review of the impact of police strategies to reduce illegal possession and carrying of firearms on gun crime, including directed patrols, monitoring of probationers and parolees, weapon reporting hotlines, and others. Four studies met the inclusion criteria, reporting a total of seven nonrandomized tests of directed patrols focused on gun carrying in three American cities (five tests) and two Colombian cities (two tests). Six of the seven tests (not all of which were independent) suggest that directed patrols reduced gun crime in high-crime places at high-risk times. However, conclusions and generalizations must be qualified based on the small number of studies, variability in study design and analytic strategy across the studies, preintervention differences between intervention and comparison areas, and limited data regarding factors such as implementation, crime displacement, and long-term impact.
KW - Campbell Collaboration
KW - Crackdowns
KW - Firearms
KW - Guns
KW - Patrol
KW - Policing
KW - Systematic review
KW - Violence
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U2 - 10.1007/s11292-006-9005-x
DO - 10.1007/s11292-006-9005-x
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:33746904725
SN - 1573-3750
VL - 2
SP - 227
EP - 261
JO - Journal of Experimental Criminology
JF - Journal of Experimental Criminology
IS - 2
ER -