@article{ref1,
title="The effect of gun-free school zones on crimes committed with a firearm in Saint Louis, Missouri",
journal="Journal of urban health",
year="2023",
author="Reeping, Paul M. and Gobaud, Ariana N. and Morrison, Christopher N. and Branas, Charles C.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="There have been no peer-reviewed, quantitative research studies on the effectiveness of gun-free school zones. The objective of this study was to use a cross-sectional, multi-group controlled ecological study design in St. Louis, MO city that compared the counts of crimes committed with a firearm occurring in gun-free school zones compared to a contiguous area immediately surrounding the gun-free school zone (i.e., gun-allowing zones) in 2019. Gun-free school zones were measured and analyzed in two ways. In the primary analysis, boundaries of the tax parcels were used for each school as the beginning of the gun-free school zone. <br><br>RESULTS from this analysis, after adjustment for pair-matching and confounding, were null. In the secondary analysis, gun-free school zones were measured as beginning at the geographic centroid of the school's address. After adjusting for the pair-matching and confounding, this analysis showed 13.7% significantly fewer crimes committed with a firearm in gun-free school zones compared to gun-allowing zones. These results suggest that gun-free school zones are not being targeted for firearm crime in St. Louis, MO.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1099-3460",
doi="10.1007/s11524-023-00800-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-023-00800-4"
}