%0 Journal Article
%T The effect of Massachusetts' gun control law on gun-related crimes in the city of Boston
%J Evaluation quarterly
%D 1977
%A Deutsch, Stuart Jay
%A Alt, Francis B.
%V 1
%N 4
%P 543-568
%X The impact on gun-related crime of legislative changes involving Massachusetts' Gun Control Law is evaluated. Viewing crime rates as realizations from some underlying stochastic processes, a procedure for measuring intervention effects on crime rates is presented. Time series on gun-related crimes for the city of Boston are analyzed with this procedure in evaluating the impact of the gun control law.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I SAGE Publishing
%@ 0145-4692
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193841X7700100402