CRM/LAW C106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Homicide, Ak-47, Background Check

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C106
• Professor: Elliott P.Currie

Document Summary

Guns become a part of culture and the environment. Availability of guns is so prevalent, you don"t know who has a gun and who doesn"t. You are more likely to die from a gunshot wound than any other cause in some states in america. Guns are a very big and destructive part of our lives; not true when it comes to the rest of the world. Nonfatal gun assaults in the us, 2014: 60,000. Nonfatal gun assaults in england and wales, may 2014-april 2015: Gun homicide rates, us and 22 other high income countries, 2010. Overall gun homicide rate: us 3. 6 per 100,000, other 22 countries: 0. 1 per 100,000, 25x higher. People who are most at risk: males aged 15-24: us: 15. 7 per 100,000, other 22 countries: 0. 3 per 100,000, 49x higher. 82% of all gun deaths (including suicide and accidents) in the 23 countries took place in the us.