Book contents
- Inequality across State Lines
- Inequality across State Lines
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Domestic Violence and Gender Inequality
- 2 Federal Action on Domestic Violence
- 3 Policymaking in the States
- 4 Explaining and Predicting the Adoption of State Domestic Violence Gun Laws
- 5 The View from the Courtroom
- 6 The Costs of Inequality in Domestic Violence Policies
- 7 Pathways for Improving Human Security for Women
- Appendices
- References
- Index
4 - Explaining and Predicting the Adoption of State Domestic Violence Gun Laws
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2023
- Inequality across State Lines
- Inequality across State Lines
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Domestic Violence and Gender Inequality
- 2 Federal Action on Domestic Violence
- 3 Policymaking in the States
- 4 Explaining and Predicting the Adoption of State Domestic Violence Gun Laws
- 5 The View from the Courtroom
- 6 The Costs of Inequality in Domestic Violence Policies
- 7 Pathways for Improving Human Security for Women
- Appendices
- References
- Index
Summary
Using quantitative data, we construct an explanation of the adoption of policies that address the intersection of firearms and domestic violence. Removing guns from perpetrators of domestic violence, including domestic violence among unmarried couples, decreases intimate partner deaths. Beyond the very positive effects that laws on DV gun ownership by domestic violence perpetrators can have to make women safer, the sponsorship and passage of these laws over the last thirty years have increased. Using our original dataset of domestic violence firearm law (DVFL) enactments, we analyze the circumstances under which states adopt these laws. We find evidence that state and federal factors that influence policy adoption employ a set of political and demographic indicators as independent variables, particularly, the number of gun-related homicides, legislative partisan control, citizen ideology, federal legislation, and election years influence the likelihood of DVFL enactments. We also find support for the effects of vertical policy diffusion but not for horizontal policy diffusion across states. We found no effects associated with support for gun ownership or the percent of women state legislators.
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- Inequality across State LinesHow Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States, pp. 95 - 127Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023