Association Between Enactment of a "Stand Your Ground" Self-defense Law and Unlawful Homicides in Florida

David K Humphreys; Antonio Gasparrini; Douglas J Wiebe

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.3433

Association Between Enactment of a "Stand Your Ground" Self-defense Law and Unlawful Homicides in Florida

JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Oct 1;177(10):1523-1524. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.3433.

Authors

David K Humphreys¹, Antonio Gasparrini², Douglas J Wiebe³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
² Department of Social & Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England.
³ Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Abstract

This study analyzes data on homicides to evaluate changes in the number of justifiable and unlawful homicides in Florida following the enactment of a “stand your ground” law.

MeSH terms

Female
Firearms / legislation & jurisprudence*
Florida
Homicide / legislation & jurisprudence*
Homicide / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Wounds, Gunshot / epidemiology*