Citation

Donohue JJ. Criminol. Public Policy 2003; 2(3): 397-410.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, American Society of Criminology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1745-9133.2003.tb00003.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In 1997, John Lott and David Mustard launched what has become one of the most remarkable tales in the history of public policy evaluation when they announced that laws permitting citizens to carry a concealed handguns, so cold right to carry laws, caused crying to fall. Hailed as heroes by the National Rifle Association and his supporters, while derided as scoundrels by the staunchest critics, locked and mustard precipitated a scholarly and political odyssey that can teach us much about the techniques and limitations of sophisticated empirical research and the diversion norms of the scholarly and political realms....

Language: en