首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
At the fall 2001 Social Science History Association convention in Chicago, the Crime and Justice network sponsored a forum on th
At the fall 2001 Social Science History Association convention in Chicago, the Crime and Justice network sponsored a forum on th
admin
2013-11-29
73
问题
At the fall 2001 Social Science History Association convention in Chicago, the Crime and Justice network sponsored a forum on the history of gun ownership, gun use, and gun violence in the United States. Our purpose was to consider how social science history might contribute to the public debate over gun control and gun rights. To date, we have had little impact on that debate. It has been dominated by mainstream social scientists and historians, especially scholars such as Gary Kleck, John Lott, and Michael Bellesiles, whose work, despite profound flaws, is politically congenial to either opponents or proponents of gun control. Kleck and Mark Gertz, for instance, argue on the basis of their widely cited survey that gun owners prevent numerous crimes each year in the United States by using firearms to defend themselves and their property. If their survey respondents are to be believed, American gun owners shot 100, 000 criminals in 1994 in self-defense — a preposterous number. Lott claims on the basis of his statistical analysis of recent crime rates that laws allowing private individuals to carry concealed Firearms deter murders, rapes, and robberies, because criminals are afraid to attack potentially armed victims. However, he biases his results by confining his analysis to the year between 1977 and 1992, when violent crime rates had peaked and varied little from year to year. He reports only regression models that support his thesis and neglects to mention that each of those models find a positive relationship between violent crime and real income, and an inverse relationship between violent crime and unemployment
Contrary to Kleck and Lott, Bellesiles insists that guns and America’s "gun culture" are responsible for America’s high rates of murder. In Belleville’s opinion, relatively few Americans owned guns before the 1850s or know how to use, maintain, or repair them. As a result, he says, guns contributed little to the homicide rate, especially among white, which was low everywhere, even in the South and on the frontier, where historians once assume guns and murder went hand in hand. According to Bellesiles, these patterns changed dramatically after the Mexican War and especially after the Civil War, when gun ownership became widespread and cultural changes encouraged the use of handguns to command respect and resolve personal and political disputes. The result was an unprecedented wave of gun-related homicides that never truly abated. To this day, the United States has the highest homicide rate of any industrial democracy. Belleville’s low estimates of gun ownership in early America conflict, however, with those of every historian who has previously studied the subject and have thus far proven irreproducible. Every homicide statistic he presents is either misleading or wrong.
Given the influence of Kleck, kott, Bellesiles and other partisan scholars on the debate over gun control and gun rights, we felt a need to pull together what social science historians have learned to date about the history of gun ownership and gun violence in America, and to consider what research methods and projects might increase our knowledge in the near future.
The passage is primarily concerned with________.
选项
A、resolving a public dispute over gun control
B、describing the effects of earlier studies on gun control
C、analyzing the flaws in the previous theories about gun control
D、summarizing the recent development in the studies of gun control
答案
C
解析
本题中,A、B、D三项都不能表达文章的主要意思。综观全文。本文主要是围绕以前主流社会历史学家在枪支控制方面的错误论证方法而展开的。因此C项为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/l2hO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Americansfinditdifficulttothinkaboutoldageuntiltheyarepropelledintothemidstofitbytheirownagingandthatof
Basedonaccumulatedsocialresearch,therenowcanbelittledoubtthatsuccessfulandwell-adjustedchildreninmodernsocieti
Basedonaccumulatedsocialresearch,therenowcanbelittledoubtthatsuccessfulandwell-adjustedchildreninmodernsocieti
Shemakesno______oftheiraffairinpublicandheunderstandsthatheisnottorefertoitwiththesenewacquaintances.
Today,Americancollegesanduniversitiesareunderstrongattackfrommanyquarters.Teachers,itischarged,arenotdoingag
Don’tcallhimjustacollegeprofessor.Internetentrepreneur,TVpersonality,advisertopresidents,andfriendtotherichan
Nowthepublichasanunprecedentedchancetopeerovertheshouldersofarchaeologistsandhistoriansandgetafirsthandlook
Cultureisactivityofthought,andreceptivenesstobeautyandhumanefeeling,【1】ofinformationhavenothingtodowithit.Am
Millionsofindividualsallaroundtheworldareinovertheirheadsindebt.Debtcanturnanindividualortheirfamily’slife
Allofuswereimpressedbyher______complexion.
随机试题
王奶奶今年71岁,在老伴去世前儿女就已经各自成家。王奶奶在老伴去世后独居在一套一室一厅的老房子里,儿女因为工作比较忙很难有时间回来看一趟老人。王奶奶个性开朗但为人执着,因为无事可做所以只好看电视来打发时间。看到电视里许多针对老年人制作的老保健产品广告都深信
设函数z=sin(x+2y),则________.
肌瘤增大迅速,切面灰黄色的良性变性出现可引起剧烈腹痛,伴发烧的变性
下列关于阳台、外廊、室内回廊、内天井、上人屋面及室外楼梯等临空处防护栏杆的叙述,()有误。
规划中间成果的初步评审,应根据情况征求()代表的意见,推进公众参与,以利于规埘编制得科学、合理。
背景资料: 某石油化工公司投资建设一蜡油深加工工程,经招标,由A施工单位总承包。该工程的主要工程内容包括2台大型加氢裂化反应器的安装,高压油气工艺管道安装,分体到货的压缩机组安装调试等静、动设备安装工程,管道安装工程以及土建工程、电气工程、自动化仪表安装
()并不消灭风险源,只是风险承担主体改变。
(2004年单选1)下列行为中已满14周岁不满16周岁的人应当负刑事责任的是()。
若有说明语句:double*p,a;则能通过scanf语句正确给输入项读入数据的程序段是()。
Sheet.MEMOTo:JoMontenegroFrom:ZharaFarrellDate:25February20
最新回复
(
0
)