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• Abortion and crime: one has an effect on the other, but it may not be the effect you think 

  VIOLENT crime in the United States shot up like a rocket after 1960. From 1960 to 1991, reported violent crime increased by an incredible 372...

  National Review, 08/13/07 by John R. Lott, Jr. · More from publication

• Bans don't deter killers 

  People are beginning to notice what research has shown for years: Multiple-victim public shootings keep occurring in places where guns are already...

  USA TODAY, 04/23/07 by John R. Lott Jr. · More from publication

• Abortion and crime: unwanted children and out-of-wedlock births 

  Legalizing abortion can either increase or decrease investments in children's human capital. This article finds that abortion increases the number...

  Economic Inquiry, 04/01/07 by John R. Lott, Jr. · More from publication

• Commentary: Supreme Court nominee will be hard to portray as an 

  It's going to be hard to paint Judge Samuel Alito, President George W. Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, as an extremist. Judging from...

  Daily Record and the Kansas City Daily News-Press, 11/06/05 by John R. Lott, Jr. · More from publication

• Commentary: Alito will be hard to portray as an extremist 

  It's going to be hard to paint Judge Samuel Alito, President George W. Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, as an extremist. Judging from...

  Daily Record, The (Baltimore), 11/04/05 by John R. Lott Jr. · More from publication

• A short, unhappy history of campaign finance reform. 

  Notice that you no longer hear what was, until recently, an incessant rhetorical drumbeat--the campaign finance reformers' lament about there...

  American Enterprise, The, 10/01/04 by Lott, John Jr., R. · More from publication

• Guns, Crime, and Health. 

  Cross-country comparisons suggest that guns deter crime, and data show that accidental juvenile gun deaths are only a third as frequent as...

  World and I, 10/01/03 by LOTT JR., JOHN R. · More from publication

• The surprising finding that "cultural worldviews" don't explain people's views on gun control.(response to article by Dan M. Kahan and Donald Braman in this issue, p. 1291) 

  Using the General Social Survey, Kahan and Braman show that "cultural worldviews" only explain about 1.6 percentage points of people's views on...

  University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 04/01/03 by Fremling, Gertrud M.; Lott, John R., Jr. · More from publication

• Bullets and Bunkum: The futility of 'ballistic fingerprinting' 

  In the wake of the Washington, D.C., sniper attacks, many are viewing ballistic fingerprinting as a magic crime-solving tool. According to the...

  National Review, 11/11/02 by John R. Lott, Jr. · More from publication

• When gun control costs lives 

  Guns make it easier for people to kill, but guns also make it easier for people to defend themselves, especially for victims who are not strong...

  National Forum, 10/01/00 by Lott, John R Jr · More from publication