Demography and Lethal Violence
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چکیده
BATF firearms traces are a tool for prosecution of individual crimes, with potential benefits in using the tracing data for law enforcement. There are, however, severe limitations on the utility of those data for criminological analysis and public policymaking aimed at reducing homicides, including the minimal number of trace attempts and successes, the rules for excluding guns and efforts to trace them, the limited information on the basis for gun traces. While gun policies have been influenced by tracing information, scientists should recognize the limitations of BATF tracing data for policymaking, even if encouraging improvements in collection and reasonable uses for law enforcement, policy evaluation, and homicide research.
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