Prof. John Lott
(Yale Law School, visiting)
(203) 432-2366,
john.lott@yale.edu
Expert on gun topics
related to: Criminology.
Chief Economist, United
States Sentencing Commission, 1988-89.
Books on firearms-related topics:
- More Guns, Less Crime (University of Chicago
Press 1998), a widely reported study of the beneficial
effects of concealed gun carrying by private citizens.
Journal articles (author
or lead co-author) on firearms-related topics:
- Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed
Handguns, Journal of Legal Studies.
- The Concealed Handgun Debate, Journal of
Legal Studies.
- Deterrence, Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws,
and the Geographic Displacement of Crime, American
Economic Review.
- Do Concealed Handgun Laws Save Lives?,
American Journal of Public Health.
- Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and
Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting
Private and Public Law Enforcement, working paper.
Other works:
- Three books and over 90 articles on various topics in
law, economics, public choice, public finance, and
industrial organization.
Other academic
specialties: Criminal sentencing,
economics, industrial organization, public choice, public
finance.
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