Gary Kleck
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gary Kleck is a criminologist and the David J. Bordua Professor Emeritus of Criminology at Florida State University. Early life and education Kleck was born in Lombard, Illinois, to William and Joyce Kleck. He attended Glenbard East High School before enrolling in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he received his BA , MA , and PhD , all in Sociology.
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- Racial Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing: A Critical Evaluation of the Evidence with Additional Evidence on the Death Penalty. (1981) (393)
- RACE, RACIAL THREAT, AND SENTENCING OF HABITUAL OFFENDERS* (1998) (265)
- Armed resistance to crime: the prevalence and nature of self-defense with a gun (1995) (255)
- The impact of gun control and gun ownership levels on violence rates (1993) (251)
- THE MISSING LINK IN GENERAL DETERRENCE RESEARCH (2005) (175)
- Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America (1992) (169)
- Measures of Gun Ownership Levels for Macro-Level Crime and Violence Research (2004) (136)
- The Effects of Weaponry on Human Violence (1991) (129)
- Capital Punishment, Gun Ownership, and Homicide (1979) (115)
- Crime control through the private use of armed force (1988) (114)
- RESISTING CRIME: THE EFFECTS OF VICTIM ACTION ON THE OUTCOMES OF CRIMES (2004) (108)
- Victim resistance and offender weapon effects in robbery (1993) (108)
- What methods are most frequently used in research in criminology and criminal justice (2006) (93)
- Crime, Culture Conflict and the Sources of Support for Gun Control (1996) (84)
- The effect of perceived risk and victimization on plans to purchase a gun for self-protection (2011) (76)
- Do More Police Lead to More Crime Deterrence? (2014) (72)
- A reassessment of the D.C. gun law : Some cautionary notes on the use of interrupted time series designs for policy impact assessment (1996) (69)
- Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control (2017) (69)
- National Case-Control Study of Homicide Offending and Gun Ownership (1999) (66)
- Carrying Guns for Protection: Results from the National Self-Defense Survey (1998) (64)
- Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms.By James D. Wright and Peter H. Rossi. Aldine de Gruyter. 247 pp. Cloth, $36.95; paper, $14.95 (1988) (64)
- Article Productivity Among the Faculty of Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs, 2000–2005 (2007) (64)
- The impact of gun ownership rates on crime rates: a methodological review of the evidence (2015) (62)
- Rape and Resistance (1990) (60)
- Why do people support gun control? Alternative explanations of support for handgun bans (2009) (59)
- Mass Shootings in Schools (2009) (55)
- Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates: A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach (2013) (50)
- Article Productivity among the Faculty of Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs, 2005–2009 (2011) (47)
- City-Level Characteristics and Individual Handgun Ownership (2009) (46)
- Guns and Fear (2013) (45)
- Life support for ailing hypotheses (1985) (42)
- Does Crime Cause Punitiveness? (2017) (40)
- On the use of self-report data to determine the class distribution of criminal and delinquent behavior (1982) (39)
- Resisting Rape (2014) (39)
- Armed : new perspectives on gun control (2001) (39)
- Unemployment and property crime: a target-specific assessment of opportunity and motivation as mediating factors (2002) (36)
- Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias (2005) (31)
- Article Productivity Among the Faculty of Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs, 2010–2014 (2017) (31)
- THE FACTUAL FOUNDATION FOR CERTAIN KEY ASSUMPTIONS OF GUN CONTROL (1983) (31)
- Deterrence and Macro-Level Perceptions of Punishment Risks (2013) (31)
- What are the risks and benefits of keeping a gun in the home? (1998) (28)
- Social Control: Views from the Social Sciences. (1984) (26)
- The illegitimacy of one-sided speculation: getting the defensive gun use estimate down (1997) (24)
- The Myth of Big-Time Gun Trafficking and the Overinterpretation of Gun Tracing Data (2009) (24)
- Policy Lessons From Recent Gun Control Research (1986) (22)
- Does Gun Control Reduce Violent Crime? (2016) (21)
- Objective Risks and Individual Perceptions of Those Risks (2016) (19)
- BATF Gun Trace Data and the Role of Organized Gun Trafficking in Supplying Guns to Criminals (1999) (17)
- Can Owning a Gun Really Triple the Owner's Chances of being Murdered? (2001) (16)
- What Survey Modes are Most Effective in Eliciting Self-Reports of Criminal or Delinquent Behavior? (2012) (16)
- There are no lessons to be learned from Littleton (1999) (15)
- Suicide in the home in relation to gun ownership. (1992) (15)
- Impossible Policy Evaluations and Impossible Conclusions: A Comment on Koper and Roth (2001) (14)
- The emperor has no clothes: using interrupted time series designs to evaluate social policy impact (2000) (13)
- What Kind of Joblessness Affects Crime? A National Case–Control Study of Serious Property Crime (2016) (9)
- Macro‐Level Research on the Effect of Firearms Prevalence on Suicide Rates: A Systematic Review and New Evidence* (2019) (9)
- Guns and violence: an interpretive review of the field (1995) (9)
- The Impact of Police Strength and Arrest Productivity on Fear of Crime and Subjective Assessments of the Police (2017) (8)
- Evidence that "Saturday night specials" not very important for crime (1986) (8)
- Degrading scientific standards to get the defensive gun use estimate down (1999) (8)
- Large-Capacity Magazines and the Casualty Counts in Mass Shootings: The Plausibility of Linkages (2016) (7)
- Under the Gun: Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America. (1984) (7)
- America's Foreign Wars and the Legitimation of Domestic Violence (1987) (6)
- Response Errors in Surveys of Defensive Gun Use: A National Internet Survey Experiment (2018) (5)
- Firearms, Violence, and Self-Protection (2005) (5)
- Avoidance and misunderstanding: a rejoinder to McDowall et al (1996) (5)
- Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America by Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins:Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America. (1999) (5)
- Punishment and Crime: The Limits of Punitive Crime Control (2017) (5)
- Miscounting suicides. (1988) (5)
- Gun Control After Heller and McDonald: What Cannot Be Done and What Ought to Be Done (2016) (4)
- Crime Victimization and Divorce (2008) (4)
- The Continuing Vitality of Flawed Research on Guns and Violence: A Comment on Fridel (2020) (2021) (4)
- The Cross-national Association of Gun Ownership Rates and Suicide Rates: An Analysis of 194 Nations (2021) (4)
- What Do CDC’s Surveys Say About the Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses? (2018) (4)
- Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates: A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach (2012) (3)
- The Impact of Firearm Levels on Homicide Rates: the Effects of Controlling for Cultural Differences in Cross-National Research (2021) (3)
- Absolutist politics in a moderate package: prohibitionist intentions of the gun control movement (2001) (3)
- How not to study the effect of gun levels on violence rates (2009) (3)
- Did Australia’s Ban on Semiauto Firearms Really Reduce Violence? A Critique of the Chapman et al. (2016) Study (2018) (3)
- Guns and self-protection. (1994) (3)
- Research agenda on guns, violence, and gun control (2002) (3)
- Has the gun deterrence hypothesis been discredited? A reply to McDowall et al., Criminology, November 1991 (1998) (3)
- GUNS, MURDERS, AND THE CONSTITUTION (1990) (3)
- Are Police Officers More Likely to Kill African-American Suspects? (2007) (2)
- Bad Data and the “Evil Empire”: Interpreting Poll Data on Gun Control (1993) (2)
- Large-Capacity Magazines and the Casualty Counts in Mass Shootings (2016) (2)
- Using speculation to meet evidence: Reply to alba and messner (1995) (2)
- The effect of firearms on suicide (2018) (2)
- The Short-Term Deterrent Effect of Executions: An Analysis of Daily Homicide Counts (2018) (2)
- The Effect of Right-to-Carry Laws on Crime Rates: A Critique of the Research of Donohue et al. (2021) (1)
- Fear of Crime and Gun Ownership: An Asymmetrical and Reciprocal Relationship (2010) (1)
- Ideology, Politics, and Propaganda (2017) (1)
- Guns and Self-Defense (2017) (1)
- The Prevalence of Defensive Gun Use: Possible Sources of Error and the Results of 21 National Surveys (2020) (1)
- Deviant Results Regarding the Relative Lethality of Suicide Methods (2020) (1)
- Compliance with universal background check gun laws (2020) (1)
- Guns and Violent Crime (2017) (1)
- The Futility of Non-Response Responses: A Reply to Fridel (2021) (1)
- Regulating Guns among Young Adults (2019) (1)
- Review: The Citizens Guide to Gun-Control - Zimring, FE, Hawkins, G (1988) (1)
- What Do CDC’s Surveys Say About the Prevalence of Defensive Gun Use? (2020) (1)
- Review: "Crime is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America" by Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins (1999) (1)
- Social Control: Views from the Social Sciences.Edited by Jack P. Gibbs. Sage, 1982. 288 pp. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $12.50 (1984) (1)
- Risks and Benefits of Gun Ownership—Reply (1999) (1)
- Guns and Suicide (2017) (0)
- Do Mass Shooters Prefer Large-Capacity Magazines? (2020) (0)
- A Critique of Donohue et al. (2018) Analysis of RTC Laws (2018) (0)
- The Impact of the 1968 Gun Control Act’s Restrictions on Handgun Purchases by Persons Age 18 to 20 (2011) (0)
- Comments on Aneja Et Al. (2015) (0)
- What Kind of Joblessness Affects Crime? A National Case–Control Study of Serious Property Crime (2016) (0)
- The impact on crime of state laws allowing concealed weapon carrying among 18-20 year-olds (2016) (0)
- The Ownership and Acquisition of Guns (2017) (0)
- Do More Police Generate More Deterrence (2009) (0)
- Public Opinion and the Bases of Support for Gun Control (2017) (0)
- Macro-Level Research on the Effect of Punishment Levels (2017) (0)
- The Impact of Firearm Levels on Homicide Rates: the Effects of Controlling for Cultural Differences in Cross-National Research (2021) (0)
- Is the Macro-Level Punishment/Crime Association Spurious? (2011) (0)
- Perceived Risk, Criminal Victimization and Prospective Gun Ownership (2010) (0)
- The Small Arms Survey Methods for Estimating National Civilian Firearm Totals: An Assessment (2022) (0)
- Interstate Gun Movement Could Be Entirely Due to Migration Rather than Gun Trafficking (2020) (0)
- Accidental firearm fatalities (Letter) (1987) (0)
- The Hazards of Data-dredging in Gun Control Research: Comment on Webster et al. (2020) (2020) (0)
- Illegitimate Practices in Summarizing Research on Guns and Violence (2017) (0)
- Organized gun trafficking, crime guns, and crime rates (2006) (0)
- The Impact of Police Strength and Arrest Productivity on Fear of Crime and Subjective Assessments of the Police (2016) (0)
- How the Hemenway Surveys Distorted Estimates of Defensive Gun Use Frequency (2018) (0)
- The Impact of Capital Punishment on Murder Rates (2017) (0)
- The Impact of Gun Control on Violence Rates (2017) (0)
- Deterrence and the Rational Choice Model of Criminal Behavior (2017) (0)
- The Impacts of Job Quality and Career Commitment on Delinquency: Conditional or Universal? (2011) (0)
- Book Review: Monroe, J. D. Homicide and Gun Control: The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and Homicide Rates. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2008. xi pp., 211 pp (2010) (0)
- Ownership and Uses of Guns (2017) (0)
- Individual-Level Research on General Deterrence (2017) (0)
- Do Wounded Criminals Get Medical Treatment? (2019) (0)
- Research: Guns and Crime (2021) (0)
- Pick on Someone Your Own Size: Do Health, Fitness, and Size Influence Victim Selection? (2011) (0)
- Types of Gun Regulation (2017) (0)
- Guns in the medical literature. (1994) (0)
- Crime-Increasing Effects of Punishment (2017) (0)
- Regulating Guns among Young Adults (2019) (0)
- The Incapacitative Effects of Imprisonment (2017) (0)
- Deterrence and Macro-level Perceptions of Criminal: Is There a Collective Wisdom? (2008) (0)
- Guns and Crime (2009) (0)
- Which Survey Modes are Most Effective in Getting People to Admit Illegal Behaviors (2011) (0)
- Book Reviews (1999) (0)
- Cherry-Picking Spikes in Gun Sales: Comment on Levine and Mcknight (2017) (2017) (0)
- Adult Unemployment and Serious Property Crime: A National Case-Control Study (2012) (0)
- The Impact of the Repeal of Missouri’s Handgun Permit Law on Homicide: Comment on Webster et al. (2014) (2017) (0)
- Homicide, Capital Punishment, and Gun Ownership: An Aggregate Analysis of u.s. Homicide Trends From 1947 to 1976 (1979) (0)
- Comment on the Luca, Malhotra, and Poliquin (2017) Study of the Impact of Firearms Waiting Periods (2017) (0)
- Carrying Guns for Self-Protection (2017) (0)
- Wounded Criminals Do Avoid Hospitals: A Comment on May Et Al. (2016) (0)
- Employment and Crime and Delinquency of Working Youth: A Longitudinal Study of Youth Employment (2009) (0)
- Erratum to “What methods are most frequently used in research in criminology and criminal justice?” [Journal of Criminal Justice 34(2) (2006) 147–152] (2006) (0)
- OVERINTERPRETATION OF GUN TRACING DATA (2009) (0)
- How Hemenway and Solnick Distorted the Effectiveness of Defensive Gun Use (2020) (0)
- Perceived Risk of Crime Measure (2013) (0)
- Punishment and Crime (2017) (0)
- Searching for “Bad” Guns: The Focus on Special Gun Types (2017) (0)
- Impact of the Brady Act on homicide and suicide rates. (2000) (0)
- Accidental firearm fatalities. (1987) (0)
- A Comment on May et al. (2002). Do criminals go to the hospital when they are shot (2015) (0)
- Do Actual Levels of Punishment Affect Perceptions of Legal Risk (2017) (0)
- RISKS AND BENEFITS OF GUN OWNERSHIP. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1999) (0)
- General Methodological Problems in Punishment Research (2017) (0)
- Review: Social-Control - Views from the Social-Sciences - Gibbs,JP (1984) (0)
- Gun ownership and crime. (1993) (0)
- Individual-Level Research on the Effects of Punishment on those Punished (2017) (0)
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