Ren, Ling, Zhang, Yan and Zhao, Jihong Solomon (2015) Media coverage of stand your ground laws deters crime in some cities, but not in others. USApp - American Politics and Policy Blog (07 Dec 2015). Website.
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So-called ‘stand your ground laws’ – which give people the right to use deadly force to defend themselves – have now been in place for a decade. In new research which uses a Texas shooting incident as a case study, Ling Ren, Yan Zhang, and Jihong “Solomon” Zhao examine whether or not the publicity over shooting incidents where the law is invoked helps to deter crime – specifically residential and business burglaries. They find that such media coverage of high-profile incidents does have a deterrent effect in some nearby cities, but not in others.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author(s) CC BY-NC 3.0 |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States) K Law > K Law (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 08 May 2017 13:19 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 14:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/75952 |
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