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A Comparative Analysis of Crime Guns

Megan E. Collins, Susan T. Parker, Thomas L. Scott, Charles F. Wellford
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences October 2017, 3 (5) 96-127; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.5.05
Megan E. Collins
aAssociate with the Crime & Justice Institute at Community Resources for Justice
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Susan T. Parker
bSenior data scientist at CivicScape
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Thomas L. Scott
cPhD student in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland
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Charles F. Wellford
dProfessor emeritus in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland
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vol. 3 no. 5 96-127
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.5.05

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2377-8253
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2377-8261
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  • Published online October 1, 2017.

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© 2017 Russell Sage Foundation. Collins, Megan E., Susan T. Parker, Thomas L. Scott, and Charles F. Wellford. 2017. “A Comparative Analysis of Crime Guns.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(5): 96–127. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.5.05. Authors are listed alphabetically to reflect their equal contributions to this article. The work of Collins, Scott, and Wellford was supported by a subcontract from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) as part of an award from the National Institute of Justice (The Epidemiology of Gun Crime). Susan Parker’s work was supported by awards from the Joyce Foundation (Grant ID 13-34817) and the National Institute of Justice (2014-MU-CX-0013) to the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. Neither the Joyce Foundation, the IACP, nor the National Institute of Justice is responsible for the content of this article. Three anonymous reviewers provided very helpful comments, especially Reviewer A, whose observations resulted in very important modifications to the article. Direct correspondence to: Charles F. Wellford at wellford@umd.edu, 2220 LeFrak Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Megan E. Collinsa,
  2. Susan T. Parkerb,
  3. Thomas L. Scottc and
  4. Charles F. Wellfordd
  1. aAssociate with the Crime & Justice Institute at Community Resources for Justice
  2. bSenior data scientist at CivicScape
  3. cPhD student in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland
  4. dProfessor emeritus in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland
  1. Corresponding author:
    Charles F. Wellford, (wellford{at}umd.edu)
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