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Project Safe Neighborhoods ( PSN ) The Fight on "GUN Violence"

Fight Against GUN Violence thru out the United States

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PSN in the News

Man Sentenced for Lying To Buy Gun
http://www.sulphurdailynews.com/articles/2004/09/28/news/news4.txt
A Louisiana man has been sentenced to 21 months in jail and 3 years of supervised release after lying about having been convicted of a felony in order to purchase firearms.

Idaho Town Launches Fight Against Gun Crime
http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040928/NEWS01/409280327/1002/NEWS03
Police in Meridian are handing out gun locks as part of a program to prevent gun-related injuries among children. Officials have also used Project Safe Neighborhoods funds to hire a crime prevention officer and school resource officer, and they are teaching gun safety classes in the community.

Teens Honored for Halting Domestic Violence Incident
http://www.wishtv.com/global/story.asp?s=2344820&ClientType=Printable
Two teenage boys who attended a Project Safe Neighborhoods anti-violence class were recently honored for stopping an act of violence. The youths intervened when they saw a man holding down and repeatedly stabbing his wife.

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http://www.psn.gov/news.asp

Web Resources

More Districts Are Now Online
http://www.psn.gov/local.asp
Stay up to date with the latest PSN news and happenings from across the country. Visit PSN's Local Resources page for links to individual district web sites. Recently added: Wyoming and Oregon.

Help Stop Domestic Violence
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. To learn more about domestic violence and how you can help prevent it, visit the Office on Violence Against Women.

To view additional resources, please visit the PSN Web site's Links section at http://www.psn.gov/links.asp.

Publications

Cross-National Studies in Crime and Justice
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 9/2004
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cnscj.pdf
Summarizes the results from a study that documents crime and criminal punishment trends from 1981 to 1999 in eight countries: Australia, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. To enhance comparability, each paper deals with six crimes that are similarly defined across the eight countries: murder, rape, non-commercial robbery, serious assault, household burglary, and completed motor vehicle theft. Each paper uses the same set of measures of criminal punishment. Measures include sentence length imposed, percentage of sentence served, and probabilities of arrest, conviction, and incarceration.