CJ 306 Lecture 16: CJ 306 - 16: Individual, Family, and Household Crime Control (Ch. 12)

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 306
• Professor: Patrick L.Farris

Document Summary

Cj 306 - lecture 16: individual, family, and household crime control (ch. Individuals engage in many crime control activities, including: Purchasing (and possibly using) guns for self-defense. No main registry of guns in private hands. Can"t be used to arrive at local-level estimates. 34% of american homes have some time of gun in it and 65% of those people have multiple guns. Manufactured more guns that there are people in america. Suicides committed with a gun (apparently the most reliable) Surveys have shown between 500,000 and 3. 6 million instances of gun use in self-defense. Ncvs has shown between 32,000 and 108,000 uses per year. More consistent with findings from other studies. Ma y be a desire to conceal gun use from surveyors. Most have looked at the relationship between levels of fun ownership and burglary at the state and local level. Lott found that increased gun ownership was associated with less burglary.