Firearm availability and homicide rates across 26 high-income countries
Firearm availability and homicide rates across 26 high-income countries
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DOI：
10.1097/00005373-200012000-00001
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发表时间：
2000-12-01
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Miller, M
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作者：
Hemenway, D;Miller, M
背景资料：在发达国家中，美国的平民枪支拥有率最高，杀人率最高，我们研究美国是否只是一个例外，或者是否所有发达国家都存在枪支可用性和杀人之间的关系，方法：20世纪90年代初的凶杀率来自27个高度工业化或高度工业化的国家中的26个。按世界银行的分类，人口超过100万的收入国家。使用了两个常见的枪支可用性代理，即枪支自杀的百分比，以及“库克指数”，即枪支自杀百分比和枪支凶杀百分比的平均值。（无控制变量）在26个高收入国家中，枪支可获得性和凶杀率之间存在强有力的统计学显著关联。在发达国家，枪支更容易获得，杀人案也更多。
Background: Among developed nations, the United States has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership, and the highest homicide rate, We examine whether the United States is merely an exception, or if a relationship between gun availability and homicide exists across all developed nations,Methods: Homicide rates for the early 1990s come from 26 of 27 of the highly industrialized or high-income countries with greater than 1 million population as classified by the World Bank. Two common proxies for gun availability are used, the percentage of suicides with a firearm, and the"Cook index," the average of the percentage of suicides with a firearm and the percentage of homicides with a firearm.Results: In simple regressions (no control variables) across 26 high-income nations, there is a strong and statistically significant association between gun availability and homicide rates.Conslusion: Across developed countries, where guns are more available, there are more homicides.