Study: Guns in Chicago just '2.5 handshakes' away

(Northwestern University) In one of the first studies to try to map a gun market using network science, researchers used the novel scientific approach to understand how close offenders are to guns in the city of Chicago. Recreating Chicago's co-offending network of approximately 188,000 people, the researchers used data on firearms recovered by the Chicago Police Department to locate who in the network possessed those guns.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news