Youths represent a large fraction of the victims and perpetrators of violent crime across the world. Understanding how youths make judgments about crime and the actor(s) responsible has important implications, as patterns of blame attribution are associated with perceptions of criminal behavior...

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...