Data Analysis Exercise

Data Analysis Exercise

Summary of the given study

Crime and associated violence is considered as one of the greatest nuisance faced by the society of the United States. With ever increasing rates of crimes, the regulation of firearms has become a serious debating issue in the government sector. Stricter gun laws can result in lowering the violence rates, has become the common perception and the many studies tend to find the correlation between the prevalence of firearms and the significant rise in the violence rates. According to the proponents of the regulation of guns, increased availability of guns facilitate attacks, robberies, aggression, violence and even fatality. However, an authentic consistent relation between the phenomena of the gun regulation and the lowering of violence rates lacks the evidential support.

In the past the impact of gun regulation was assessed by the measuring of crime rates after the implementation of new gun law or by the comparisons of different jurisdictions in terms of relationship between firearms prevalence and crime rates. However, these assessments were not flawless due to the involvement of other determinants and the generators in the violence rates which make it difficult to assess the effect of gun control laws independently. Also, many studies bases on state level analysis failed to incorporate the regulation of guns at local level i.e. in some cities, the citizens are subjected to strong regulations of firearms, but at the state level these regulatory laws may not be strict or even present.

The dependency of crime rates on the prevalence of firearms was found out by Kleck and Patterson (1993), based on two approaches: By assessing the impact of the availability of firearms on the crime rates and by assessing the impact of the regulation of firearms on crime rates. The cross-sectional study was based on ...