ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: GUN ACCESS AND FEMICIDE: A DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF FIREARMS ON INTIMATE KILLINGS
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Title of Thesis: GUN ACCESS AND FEMICIDE: A DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF FIREARMS ON INTIMATE KILLINGS Amanda Brown Cross, Master of Arts, 2005 Thesis directed by: Professor Gary LaFree Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies of intimate partner homicide have repeatedly suggested that gun accessibility increases the risk that a confrontation between intimates will end in the death of one partner, usually the woman. In the larger arena of gun accessibility research, experts have posited opposing conclusions about how gun accessibility affects the risk of homicide in the population overall. This thesis is an attempt to build a bridge between literature linking gun access to increased intimate partner homicide and literature exploring the effect of gun availability on homicide in general. Based on previous research, the current study poses the two hypotheses: (I) Gun accessibility is a stronger predictor of intimate partner homicide than nonintimate partner homicide and (II) Gun accessibility is a stronger predictor of intimate partner homicide of women than intimate partner homicide of men. My analysis is consistent with hypothesis II and offers no support for hypothesis I. GUN ACCESS AND FEMICIDE: A DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF FIREARMS ON INTIMATE KILLINGS by Amanda Brown Cross Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts 2005 Advisory Committee: Professor Gary LaFree Professor Denise Gottfredson Professor Charles Wellford TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables iii Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: Literature Review 4 More Guns or Fewer Guns, Same Crime 5 More Guns, More Homicide 9 Special Case of Female Murder Victims 12 Chapter 3: Methods 20 Hypotheses 20 Data 20 Homicide rates 20 Gun prevalence 21 Other measures 22 Analysis 24 Chapter 4: Results and Discussion 27 Discussion 30 Appendix A: Correlations among Independent Variables 35
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