Institutional violence

Wintermute, Garen, et al. Ejfectiveness of Denial of Handgun Purchase by Violent Misdemeanants, Final Report. Sacramento University of California, Davis. Violence Prevention Research Program, available through Rockville, Md. National Institute of Justice, 2002. This report compares persons convicted of at least one violent misdemeanor who were denied purchase of a gun ftom a licensed dealer to similar persons who were able to purchase a gun prior to enactment of the California law. The study concludes that the successful purchasers are more likely to be arrested for new gun and/or violent crimes thus the law has a crime-reducing effect. 

Kopel, David. Anti-Gun, Anti-Science The Real Enemy Is Shoddy Research. National Review Online. Available online. URL http //www. nationalreview.eom/kopel/kopel022701.shtml. Posted on February 27, 2001. Kopel, a criminologist and research director for the Independence Institute, imagines what it would be like if diseases were treated as crimes. The results would be as absurd and the research as shoddy as in the real world where some advocates want to treat gun violence as a health rather than criminal issue. An example of such junk science are studies that show higher risks of murder for people who have guns do not show causation and do not control for numerous related variables. 

Sheley, Joseph E, and James D. Wright. High School Youths, Weapons, and Violence A National Survey. Washington, D.C. National Institute of Justice, 1998. Reports and analyzes national survey results on youth violence. 

Kopel, David B. Children and Guns Sensible Solutions. Independence Institute. Available online. URL http //rkba.org/research/kopel/ kids-gun.html. Downloaded on April 25, 1993. Argues that safety education, youth development, and proper law enforcement can reduce gun accidents and violence involving children, while gimmicky safety devices, laws, and lawsuits are unlikely to be effective. 

WA 7 777 8 412, 549. This prompted H. Grisar to comment that the violence of the tone in which Luther speaks of the universities. .. has perhaps never been equalled in any attack on these institutions (Luther [London, 1917], 6 24, note 3) compare Melanchthon s remark that the universities were an invention of the Devil (CR1 345). 

Dr. Tart s data should lay to rest one of the nastiest myths the Anslinger brigade fostered about marijuana, i.e., that it leads to sexual and other violence. "Loss of control to the point of antisocial actions is reported to be the rarest of all marijuana effects recorded in the Tart study (p. 192). This is consistent with what s been found elsewhere in several NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) studies. One of the most meticulous of these, The Blumer Report, determined that use of the plant s leaves reduced violence in juvenile delinquents in Oakland. 

Go to the National Institute of Mental Health Web site at http //www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/violence.cfm. Search Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters. ... 

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