TY - JOUR PY - 1977// TI - The effect of Massachusetts' gun control law on gun-related crimes in the city of Boston JO - Evaluation quarterly A1 - Deutsch, Stuart Jay A1 - Alt, Francis B. SP - 543 EP - 568 VL - 1 IS - 4 N2 - 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.

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LA - en SN - 0145-4692 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193841X7700100402 ID - ref1 ER -