More guns, less crime? A dynamical systems approach

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dc.contributor.authorMonteiro L.H.A.
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-12T23:48:32Z
dc.date.available2024-03-12T23:48:32Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstract© 2019 Elsevier Inc.The laws regulating the ownership and use of firearms by civilians have been debated in several countries. The debate arises because the relations among firearm accessibility, right to self-defense, firearm-related mortality, and violent crime statistics can suggest divergent strategies to combat criminality. Here, a model written in terms of differential equations is proposed to answer the question: do more legal guns mean less crime committed by illegal guns? From this model, the impact of distinct gun-control policies on the rate of gun-related crimes is investigated. It is analytically shown that strong gun-control leads to the minimum number of illegal guns; however, this policy does not assure a crime-free society. Weak gun-control can lead to a crime-free society; however, this policy requires the maximum number of legal guns in the hands of the civil society.
dc.description.volume369
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.amc.2019.124804
dc.identifier.issn0096-3003
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/35011
dc.relation.ispartofApplied Mathematics and Computation
dc.rightsAcesso Restrito
dc.subject.otherlanguageDynamical system
dc.subject.otherlanguageGun control
dc.subject.otherlanguageLyapunov stability
dc.subject.otherlanguagePublic safety
dc.titleMore guns, less crime? A dynamical systems approach
dc.typeArtigo
local.scopus.citations5
local.scopus.eid2-s2.0-85075759507
local.scopus.subjectCivil society
local.scopus.subjectDynamical systems approach
local.scopus.subjectGun control
local.scopus.subjectLyapunov stability
local.scopus.subjectPublic safety
local.scopus.updated2024-05-01
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