The objective of this book is to quantify the social costs of gun violence in order to help policy makers determine how many and which violence programmes to support. Drawing upon the most detailed and extensive economic study of the cost of gun violence, Cook and Ludwig provide detailed information about how the burden of gun violence is distributed in the US. Drawing upon this data, the book draws out the important implications for public policy. The burden of gun violence in America is valued at about $100 billion annually, and this heavy cost is distributed much more evenly over the population than the victimization statistics would suggest. Cook and Ludwig's examination of these costs lead them to propose a multifaceted policy agenda that includes both law enforcement and gun control measures.

The objective of this book is to quantify the social costs of gun violence in order to help policy makers determine how many and which violence programs to support. Drawing upon the most detailed and extensive economic study of the cost of gun violence, Cook and Ludwig provide detailed information about how the burden of gun violence is distributed in the U.S. The book also highlights the important implications for public policy. Cook and Ludwig's examination of these costs lead them to propose a multifaceted policy agenda that includes both law enforcement, and gun control measures.

Compared with other developed nations, the United States is unique in its high rates of both gun ownership and murder. Although widespread gun ownership does not have much effect on the overall crime rate, gun use does make criminal violence more lethal and has a unique capacity to terrorize the public. Gun crime accounts for most of the costs of gun violence in the United States, which are on the order of $100 billion per year. But that is not the whole story. Guns also provide recreational benefits and sometimes are used virtuously in fending off or forestalling criminal attacks. Given that guns may be used for both good and ill, the goal of gun policy in the United States has been to reduce the flow of guns to the highest-risk groups while preserving access for most people. There is no lack of opinions on policies to regulate gun commerce, possession, and use, and most policy proposals spark intense controversy. Whether the current system achieves the proper balance between preserving access and preventing misuse remains the subject of considerable debate. Evaluating Gun Policy provides guidance for a pragmatic approach to gun policy using good empirical research to help resolve conflicting assertions about the effects of guns, gun control, and law enforcement. The chapters in this volume do not conform neatly to the claims of any one political position. The book is divided into five parts. In the first section, contributors analyze the connections between rates of gun ownership and two outcomes of particular interest to society -suicide and burglary. Regulating ownership is the focus of the second section, where contributors investigate the consequences a large-scale combined gun ban and buy-back program in Australia, as well as the impact of state laws that prohibit gun ownership to those with histories of domestic violence. The third section focuses on efforts to restrict gun carrying and includes a critical examination of efforts in Pittsburgh to patrol illegal gun traffic and a re-examination of the effects of permissive state gun-carrying laws. This section also features the first rigorous -and critical -analysis of Richmond's Project Exile, which serves as one model for the national Project Safe Neighborhoods program. The fourth section focuses on efforts to facilitate research on gun violence, including a database on state gun laws and the ongoing development of a nationwide violent-death reporting system. The book concludes with an examination of the policy process. Differences in opinion about gun policy flourish partly because of the lack of sound evidence in this area. The contributors to this volume demonstrate that skilled and dispassionate analysis of the evidence is attainable, even in an area as contentious as firearm policy. For pragmatists who wish to reduce the social burden of gun violence, there is no acceptable alternative.

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Padagogik - Schulpadagogik, Note: 2,0, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Philosophische Fakultat IV), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Die Moglichkeiten, die die neuen Medien bieten, konnen zu einer Vielfalt im Lernprozess beitragen, die das Aufnehmen und Verarbeiten von Wissen zusatzlich unterstutzen. Es wird weniger das individuelle Lernen erleichtert, als die Gestaltungsmoglichkeiten einer Lernumgebung erweitert. Lernsoftware und andere Computer-Anwendungen erganzen die Palette der Lernmittel. Lehrende konnen sie nutzen, um u.a. Sachverhalte anschaulich darzustellen oder motivationale Aspekte des Computers zu nutzen, die nicht nur durch das Neue dieses Mediums zum Tragen kommen. Die Fragen die sich daraus fur den Lehrenden ergeben, sind also bestimmt durch die sinnvolle Erganzung des Unterrichts durch die vielfaltigen Moglichkeiten, die die neuen Medien bieten. Welche Software ist fur welche Phase des Unterrichts am Besten geeignet?; Wie konnen die neuen Moglichkeiten, die sich mit den neuen Medien ergeben, die Lernphasen effektiv unterstutzen?. Kann ein Lehrer, der seinen Unterrichtsablauf bereits im Kopf hat, nach Lernsoftware suchen, die dann bestimmte Phasen in seiner Planung unterstutzen? Das scheint mir mit den Kriterien der ublichen Kataloge schwer moglich, denn diese lassen meist nur Ruckschlusse zu, ob ein Unterricht und eine Lernsoftware im Allgemeinen zusammenpassen. Die Frage, die offen bleibt, ist die nach den konkreten Gebrauchsmoglichkeiten einer Software in bestimmbaren Einheiten des Unterrichts: Welche Software passt in die Experimentierphase des Physikunterrichts der Sekundarstufe II zum Thema Hebelwirkung? Mit welcher Software lassen sich die Vokabeln fur den Englisch-Unterricht der 7. Klasse abwechslungsreich uberprufen? Ziel meiner Magisterarbeit ist die Analyse der didaktischen und methodischen Kategorien in Kriterienkatalogen sowie bei Metadaten und die Erarbeitung ei