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January 11, 2018

Geoffrey Williams on guns and the 1960s crime wave

An interview at the 2018 蝌蚪网 poster session

is a professor of economics at Transylvania University in Lexington, KY. He sat down with the 蝌蚪网 to talk about gun crime in the 1960s, the impact of the Gun Control Act of 1968, and the implications for policy today.

Young Men, Cheap Guns, and the 1960s and 1970s Crime Wave

From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, all measures of violent crime including homicides went up by more than 100% within the United States. While previous researchers have noted that gun sales and gun crimes increased in this period, relatively little attention has been focused on the fall in handgun prices that ...

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