The impact on gun-related crime of legislative changes involving Massachusetts' Gun
Control Law is evaluated. Viewing crime rates as realizations from some underlying
stochastic processes, a procedure for measuring intervention effects on crime rates is
presented. Time series on gun-related crimes for the city of Boston are analyzed with
this procedure in evaluating the impact of the gun control law.
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