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Firearms Use by Offenders


  Author: Caroline Wolf Harlow
Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs
Publication: Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report
Document Date:                  November 2001
Category: Crime And Violence > Incarceration
Related Categories:
Crime And Violence > Crime
Crime And Violence > Weapons
 

This report presents the results of a survey that investigated the number of inmates in state and federal prisons who had carried or used a gun while committing an offense.  It shows that rates of firearm possession and use are on the rise, and that young male offenders were the most likely to have had a gun.

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