@article{ref1,
title="More guns … more or less crime? An Australian perspective on an international question",
journal="Crime prevention and community safety",
year="2013",
author="McPhedran, Samara",
volume="15",
number="2",
pages="127-133",
abstract="This article reports on preliminary investigation of relationships between levels of legal firearms ownership and violent firearm-related crime in New South Wales, Australia. No evidence was found to suggest that increasing numbers of legally owned firearms are associated with increasing levels of crime; rather, modest negative associations were found between levels of legal gun ownership and violent firearm crime. The results suggest that reducing levels of legal gun ownership is not necessarily a prerequisite for reducing levels of violent crime, and that reductions in firearm crime can occur in the context of increasing levels of legal ownership.  Keywords: firearms; violence; crime<p />",
language="",
issn="1460-3780",
doi="10.1057/cpcs.2012.17",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/cpcs.2012.17"
}