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Guns in CrimeNicolas FlorquinIntroductionThe toll resulting from the use of small arms insocieties “at peace” is drawing increasing internationalattention. At least 200,000 non-conflictrelatedfirearm deaths occur each year worldwide,the vast majority of which (at least 140,000) arecategorized as homicides, a criminal offensethroughout the world. Nonlethal crimes involvingthe use of small arms include robberies, assaultsand threats, and to a lesser extent, sexual offenses(Small Arms Survey 2004). The criminal use ofarms in societies at peace can be treated as a distinctfield of inquiry, despite the obvious overlapswith the more general questions of the effects ofgun use.The debate over the relationship betweenfirearms and crime has, for the most part, remaineda US academic and public policy issue. The academicdisciplines that have examined the role ofguns in crime to date are mainly criminal justice,public health, economics, and anthropology/sociology.Put simply, they have focused on threebroad themes:• the accessibility thesis, i.e., the relationshipbetween gun accessibility and levels of violence,defined as crime by criminologists and as deathsand injuries by public-health scholars.• the tangible economic costs gun violence imposeson societies.• the intangible impacts of gun violence on communitiesand individuals’ perceptions, behavior,and attitudes.21
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