News Crime Lab, Education Lab Affiliate and Crime Lab, Health Lab Co-Director edit journal on gun markets.

Crime Lab, Education Lab, Health Lab Crime Lab, Education Lab Affiliate and Crime Lab, Health Lab Co-Director edit journal on gun markets

The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences released a new issue of their Journal. This new issue was edited by Crime Lab and Education Lab Affiliate Philip Cook and Crime Lab Co-Director and Health Lab Co-Director Harold Pollack. Cook and Pollack brought together seven articles that explore the market for illegal and legal guns in the United States. These articles include new datasets and interviews with inmates to highlight the supply chains and underground markets for guns that are used in crimes in the United States.

Read the full journal that highlights this little understood market here.

8 October 2017

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