Colin Loftin

Best Publications

• Regional subculture and homicide: an examination of the Gastil-Hackney thesis.

  Colin Loftin;Robert H. Hill

  548
  Citations

• Effects of restrictive licensing of handguns on homicide and suicide in the District of Columbia.

  Colin Loftin;David McDowall;Brian Wiersema;Talbert J. Cottey

  494
  Citations

• Seasonal Cycles in Crime, and Their Variability

  David McDowall;Colin Loftin;Matthew Pate

  208
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• The Police, Crime, and Economic Theory: An Assessment

  Colin Loftin;David McDowall

  175
  Citations

• Easing Concealed Firearms Laws: Effects on Homicide in Three States

  David McDowall;Colin Loftin;Brian Wiersema

  174
  Citations

• Crime in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective.

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  162
  Citations

• Collective Security and the Demand for Legal Handguns.

  David McDowall;Colin Loftin

  159
  Citations

• A Comparison of Supplementary Homicide Reports and National Vital Statistics System Homicide Estimates for U.S. Counties

  Brian Wiersema;Colin Loftin;David McDOWALL

  159
  Citations

• MANDATORY SENTENCING AND FIREARMS VIOLENCE: EVALUATING AN ALTERNATIVE TO GUN CONTROL

  Colin Loftin;Milton Heumann;David McDowall

  158
  Citations

• AN ERRORS‐IN‐VARIABLE MODEL OF THE EFFECT OF POVERTY ON URBAN HOMICIDE RATES

  Colin Loftin;Robert Nash Parker

  157
  Citations

• Social Inequality and Crime Control

  David F. Greenberg;Ronald C. Kessler;Colin Loftin

  154
  Citations

• Assaultive violence as a contagious social process

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  152
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• A Comparative Study of the Preventive Effects of Mandatory Sentencing Laws for Gun Crimes

  David McDowall;Colin Loftin;Brian Wiersema

  151
  Citations

• Underreporting of Justifiable Homicides Committed by Police Officers in the United States, 1976-1998

  Colin Loftin;Brian Wiersema;David McDowall;Adam Dobrin

  116
  Citations

• A spatial autocorrelation model of the effects of population density on fertility.

  Colin Loftin;Sally K. Ward

  101
  Citations

• The Impact of Youth Curfew Laws on Juvenile Crime Rates

  David McDowall;Colin Loftin;Brian Wiersema

  96
  Citations

• Do US City Crime Rates Follow a National Trend? The Influence of Nationwide Conditions on Local Crime Patterns

  David McDowall;Colin Loftin

  95
  Citations

• Mandatory Sentencing and the Abolition of Plea Bargaining: The Michigan Felony Firearm Statute

  Milton Heumann;Colin Loftin

  93
  Citations

• Herding and Homicide: An Examination of the Nisbett-Reaves Hypothesis

  Rebekah Chu;Craig Rivera;Colin Loftin

  82
  Citations

• The Deterrent Effects of the Florida Felony Firearm Law

  Colin Loftin;David McDowall

  81
  Citations