The Effect of Massachusetts' Gun Control Law On Gun-Related Crimes in the City of Boston
- 1 November 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Evaluation Quarterly
- Vol. 1 (4) , 543-568
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841x7700100402
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.Keywords
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