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
2010-05-25
72
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.① 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 Untied 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 to 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 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 rate 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 Whites, which was low everywhere, even in the South and on the frontier, where historians once assumed gun 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. Bellesile’s low estimates of gun ownership in early America conflict, however, with those of every historian who has previously studied the subject and has thus far proven irreproducible. Every homicide statistic he presents is either misleading or wrong.
Given the influence of Kleck, Lott, 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. ②
The author’s main criticism of John Lott is that he______.
选项
A、advocates private ownership of firearms
B、is not objective in his analysis
C、has analyzed a wrong period
D、has cited dubious statistics
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。作者批评Lott并不是因为他呼吁个人拥有枪支,而是批评他的数据采集的任意性,排除A 。根据第一段最后两句话可知他仅仅选取能证明自己观点的资料,而舍弃了相反的资料,分析不客观。而选择哪个时期的资料无可厚非,选项C 排除;他的资料并不模糊,只是很主观、很随意而已,所以排除选项D 故答案为B 。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/t72K777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Letusconsiderwhatscienceandtechnologyhavetocontributetothefoodproblem.Thesimplestwaytoincreasefoodprodu
Letusconsiderwhatscienceandtechnologyhavetocontributetothefoodproblem.Thesimplestwaytoincreasefoodprodu
Letusconsiderwhatscienceandtechnologyhavetocontributetothefoodproblem.Thesimplestwaytoincreasefoodprodu
Letusconsiderwhatscienceandtechnologyhavetocontributetothefoodproblem.Thesimplestwaytoincreasefoodprodu
Letusconsiderwhatscienceandtechnologyhavetocontributetothefoodproblem.Thesimplestwaytoincreasefoodprodu
Letusconsiderwhatscienceandtechnologyhavetocontributetothefoodproblem.Thesimplestwaytoincreasefoodprodu
Letusconsiderwhatscienceandtechnologyhavetocontributetothefoodproblem.Thesimplestwaytoincreasefoodprodu
Letusconsiderwhatscienceandtechnologyhavetocontributetothefoodproblem.Thesimplestwaytoincreasefoodprodu
Letusconsiderwhatscienceandtechnologyhavetocontributetothefoodproblem.Thesimplestwaytoincreasefoodprodu
随机试题
_________在一个单独的窗口中以图形的方式列出显示部件的装配结构,并提供了在装配中操控组件的快捷方法。
不属于脑神经的是
男性,30岁。左上后牙自发性剧痛2天。3周前,左上后牙行单层垫底,一次完成银汞合金永久充填。充填前无自发痛。口腔检查:左上7远中邻面银汞合金补物完好,叩诊(-),温度刺激试验(+++),牙周检查正常。
A、KillipⅠ级B、KillipⅡ级C、KillipⅢ级D、NYHAⅡ级E、NYHAⅣ级风湿性心脏病,休息时有心悸。呼吸困难或心绞痛,任何活动均可加重上述症状。判断为
生产契约曲线上的点表示生产者()。
()投资者,是简单机械调整战略的自然候选人。
某公司2015年的利润留存率为40%,2016年预计的权益净利率为20%。净利润和股利的增长率均为4%,该公司的B值为2,政府长期债券利率为2%,市场平均股票收益率为8%。则该公司的内在市净率为()。
简述我国当代三大名锦、三大特产、四大名绣及中国工艺美术“三长”、中国传统工艺“三绝”的名称。
××计委关于高等院校向毕业生收取补偿培养费问题的复函××地区物价局:你局《关于明确高等院校向“自主择业”的毕业生收取补偿培养费的请求报告》收悉。经研究,函复如下……
函数的无穷间断点数为
最新回复
(
0
)