Closer to Guns: the Role of Street Gangs in Facilitating Access to Illegal Firearms.
Criminal offenders often turn to social networks to gain access to firearms, yet we know little about how networks facilitate access to firearms. This study conducts a network analysis of a co-offending network for the City of Chicago to determine how close any offender may be to a firearm. We use a...
| Published in: | Journal of Urban Health Vol. 95; no. 3; pp. 372 - 383 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2018
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