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firearm homicide and suicide rates. We find that the buyback led to a drop in the firearm suicide rates of almost 80 per cent …
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substitution and for underlying trends in suicide or homicide rates are misleading. The high variability in the data and the … introduced in the National Firearms Agreement (NFA) post- 1996 did not affect firearm homicide rates, and may not have had an … impact on the rate of gun suicide or accidental death by shooting. We revisit their analysis, and find that their results are …
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share of the richest 10 percent affect homicide or suicide rates. …
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representation are followed by significant declines in intimate partner homicide rates and in rates of repeated domestic abuse. These …
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Este documento centra su análisis en el estudio de las normas sociales de la población dedicada a la extracción del recurso natural pesca, en el pacífico colombiano. Para tal efecto, se plantea un juego no cooperativo con información completa imperfecta entre la comunidad de pescadores de...
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This paper tests whether economic inequality is related to suicide mortality. Using an unbalanced panel of 40 countries … for the period 1947-2001 allows us to control for the effect of unobserved factors that may have an impact on suicide … suicide. The latter result seems to be robust to a number of specification issues explored in a sensitivity analysis. Our …
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provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …
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The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation's attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating...
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topic by focusing on disparities in homicide sentences using data from over 9000 homicide cases tried in Colombia from 1980 …-legal variables such as: the city in which the homicide trial took place, where the body of the victim was retrieved, and whether the …
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Although so much progress going on in every field, the crimes of killing man impelled by blood feud carry on their existance. All jurisprudences and the decisions of the Court of Appeal about the criminal homicides connected with this type of crimes ha- ve been carefully examined. The required...
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