People can download a copy of our research at the journal available here and at SSRN here. Abstract Using a unique data set we link the race of police officers who kill suspects with the race of those who are killed across the United States. We have data on a total of...
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The Crime Prevention Research Center Completely Dominates The Social Science Research Network’s Listing Of Academic Crime Research
The Social Science Research Network’s eLibrary provides 950,733 research papers from 503,172 researchers in more than 65 disciplines. Dr. John Lott’s work was the 14th most downloaded researcher ever. No other researcher or university or center has even a fraction as...
Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States: 2021
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2020 are available here. AbstractDuring the Coronavirus pandemic, the number of concealed handgun permits has soared to over 21.52 million – a 48% increase...
At Real Clear Investigations: There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses Than Murders in America. Here’s Why You Rarely Hear of Them.
While Americans know that guns take many innocent lives every year, many don’t know that firearms also save them. While Americans know that guns take many innocent lives every year, many don’t know that firearms also save them.On May 15, an attacker at an apartment...
Less than 0.1% of guns are used in crime in any given year
The National Crime Victimization Survey, in the latest year that it is available, 2019, shows that firearms were used 440,830 incidents for rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults (Table 25). The FBI Uniform Crime Reports shows that firearms were used...
New Research: Corrections to the FBI’s Reports on Active Shooting Incidents
This new research by Dr. John Lott is available here. While he was working at the Department of Justice, he put together a report on errors in the FBI's Reports on Active Shooting incidents. Abstract The claim in the original FBI report that active shooting cases have...
At Real Clear Investigations: America the Outlier: Voter Photo IDs Are the Rule in Europe and Elsewhere
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigation/Real Clear Politics and the Daily Signal and American Greatness. Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020...
New Research: Not all right-to-carry laws are the same
Prof. Carl Moody, the CPRC's Research Director, has a new paper (available here) explaining why so many other papers are making mistakes in how they estimate the impact of concealed handguns on crime rates. The point might seem obvious, that there are huge differences...
Types of guns used in Mass Public Shootings 1998 through March 2021
Our dataset of Mass Public Shooting List US 1998-March 2021 provides information on the ages, political views, and religious beliefs of mass public shooters and these killers’ race and gender. And it also provides information on the types of guns used....
At Real Clear Investigations: Mail-in Vote Fraud in Montana
UPDATE: Montana Governor Greg Gianforte Announces That He Has Talked To Secretary Of State Christi Jacobsen About Mail-In Vote Fraud Allegations In Missoula, Montana ORIGINAL: Dr. John Lott has an investigative piece on mail-in vote fraud in Montana. Some of the...
UPDATE: Do Right-to-carry laws reduce violent crime?
Original Post November 2, 2014: A 2012 survey of the literature in the University of Maryland Law Review is available here. Some of the peer-reviewed research showing that concealed carry laws reduce violent crime is listed here. This list includes...
More problems with the latest FBI Reports: 15% of Active Shooter Attacks During 2014-19 were Stopped Or Mitigated By Citizens Legally Carrying Guns, But Misses More than Half The Cases
The FBI claims that there were 27 active shooting cases in 2018 and 28 cases in 2019, but they have missed at least seven cases, with at least six cases where a concealed handgun permit holder stopped the attack. So there should be nine cases (14.52%) where people...