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14 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1 (2016)
The Criminal Records of Gun Offenders

handle is hein.journals/geojlap14 and id is 7 raw text is: ARTICLES The Criminal Records of Gun Offenders ANTHONY A. BRAGA AND PHILIP J. COOK* INTRODUCTION .......................................... 1 1. VIOLENT GUN OFFENDERS: VIRGIN KILLERS OR REPEAT O FFENDERS? ........................................ 2 A. Policy Dilemma .... ................................ 2 B. Legal Framework ................................... 4 C. Criminal Backgrounds of Violent Offenders ............... 6 II. CRIMINAL RECORDS OF BOSTON GUN OFFENDERS .................. 8 A. Data Sources ..... ................................. 8 B. Results ........................................... 8 C ONCLUSION ............................................ 12 TABLE 1. BASIC DEMOGRAPHICS OF ARRESTED GUN OFFENDERS IN BOSTON, 20 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 TABLE 2. PROHIBITIONS AGAINST LEGALLY POSSESSING A FIREARM, ADULT ARRESTED GUN OFFENDERS IN BOSTON, 2014 ..................... 13 TABLE 3. LOGISTIC REGRESSION OF BOSTON ADULT GUN CRIME ARREST TYPE ON SELECTED INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS, 2014 ............. 14 TABLE 4. PRIOR CRIMINAL HISTORIES OF ADULT ARRESTED GUN OFFENDERS IN BOSTON, 2014 ................................ 15 TABLE 5. EXPANSIONS AND CONTRACTIONS OF GUN OWNERSHIP PROHIBITIONS ........................................... 16 INTRODUCTION Should the courts treat illegal gun possession and carrying cases as serious crimes? Since these cases do not have a victim, they may be seen as regulatory violations of little real consequence. On the other hand, if the arrestees are typically active criminals at high risk of doing serious harm with their guns, * Anthony A. Braga is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Philip J. Cook is the ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. © 2016, Anthony A. Braga and Philip J. Cook.

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