Gary Kleck

5.1k citations
103 papers · 3.7k indexed · h-index 38

Impact in

  • Health top 0.1%
    • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
    • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
    • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending

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Gary Kleck

96 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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Gary Kleck
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  • Health 2.1k
  • Clinical Psychology 1.5k
  • Sociology and Political Science 3.0k
  • Gender Studies 247
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 251
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Gary Kleck, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Gun Control After Heller and McDonald: What Cannot Be Done and What Ought to Be Done
20164
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How not to study the effect of gun levels on violence rates
20092
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The Myth of Big-Time Gun Trafficking and the Overinterpretation of Gun Tracing Data
200912
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Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias
20054
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Research agenda on guns, violence, and gun control
20022
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Absolutist politics in a moderate package: prohibitionist intentions of the gun control movement
20012
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The emperor has no clothes: using interrupted time series designs to evaluate social policy impact
20006
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BATF Gun Trace Data and the Role of Organized Gun Trafficking in Supplying Guns to Criminals
199913
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Degrading scientific standards to get the defensive gun use estimate down
19994
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There are no lessons to be learned from Littleton
19996
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Has the gun deterrence hypothesis been discredited? A reply to McDowall et al., Criminology, November 1991
19980
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Evidence that "Saturday night specials" not very important for crime
19866
20 198319

About Gary Kleck

Gary Kleck is a scholar working on Health, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ophthalmology, having authored 103 papers that have together received 3.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gun Ownership and Violence Research (61 papers), Crime Patterns and Interventions (53 papers), Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (28 papers), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (15 papers), Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses (8 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (6 papers), Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries (5 papers) and Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health (2.1k citations), Clinical Psychology (1.5k citations), Sociology and Political Science (3.0k citations), Gender Studies (247 citations) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (251 citations). Gary Kleck has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Marc Gertz, Gregg Lee Carter, Ted Chiricos, J. C. Barnes, Charles Crawford, Tomislav V. Kovandzic, Karen McElrath, James D. Wright, Peter H. Rossi and Miriam A. DeLone. Their work appears in journals such as Social Forces, Crime & Delinquency, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Social Problems and Journal of Criminal Justice.

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