Residential Mobility and Public Policy, Urban Affairs Annual Review (Vol. 19)

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Anthony H. Pascal ◽  
W. A. V. Clark ◽  
Eric G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Urban Affairs

Firearm Instrumentality: Do Guns Make Violent Situations More Lethal?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony A. Braga ◽  
Elizabeth Griffiths ◽  
Keller Sheppard ◽  
Stephen Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Online Publication ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Considerable Evidence ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Firearm Availability ◽  
Do So

One of the central debates animating the interpretation of gun research for public policy is the question of whether the presence of firearms independently makes violent situations more lethal, known as an instrumentality effect, or whether determined offenders will simply substitute other weapons to affect fatalities in the absence of guns. The latter position assumes sufficient intentionality among homicide assailants to kill their victims, irrespective of the tools available to do so. Studies on the lethality of guns, the likelihood of injury by weapon type, offender intent, and firearm availability provide considerable evidence that guns contribute to fatalities that would otherwise have been nonfatal assaults. The increasing lethality of guns, based on size and technology, and identifiable gaps in existing gun control policies mean that new and innovative policy interventions are required to reduce firearm fatalities and to alleviate the substantial economic and social costs associated with gun violence. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Criminology, Volume 4 is January 13, 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

Residential Mobility and Public Policy.

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 536
Author(s):  
John R. Logan ◽  
W. A. V. Clark ◽  
Eric G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Residential Mobility

Policy Levers to Foster Residential Change and Reduce Recidivism

Home Free ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 145-164
Author(s):  
David S. Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Criminal Recidivism ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Former Prisoners ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Stable Housing ◽  
Residential Change ◽  
Policies And Practices

Chapter 9 seeks to inform public policy debates about how to reduce criminal recidivism, with a particular focus on parole and housing policies. In many states, prisoners released onto parole are legally required to return to their county of last residence, thus contributing to a return to old neighborhoods. Accordingly, this chapter argues that parole policies and practices need to be fundamentally altered. In addition, barriers to securing housing mean that many former prisoners will return to their home neighborhoods even when they do not want to because they simply have nowhere else to go. Such barriers curtail efforts at residential change and residential mobility. This chapter suggests that policies that expand stable housing opportunities for the formerly incarcerated, particularly opportunities outside of their old neighborhoods, may be a fruitful way to reduce recidivism. The chapter concludes by calling for a multipronged approach to reduce recidivism, including both mobility-based strategies and place-based interventions.

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