Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC)

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CPRC is dedicated to conducting academic quality research on the relationship between laws regulating the ownership or use of guns, crime, and public safety.

About Us

The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) is a research and education organization dedicated to conducting academic quality research on the relationship between laws regulating the ownership or use of guns, crime, and public safety; educating the public on the results of such research; and supporting other organizations, projects, and initiatives that are organized and operated for similar purposes. It has 501(C)(3) status, and does not accept donations from gun or ammunition makers or organizations such as the NRA or any other organizations involved in the gun control debate on either side of the issue.  Nor do we accept donations from organizations involved in the debate over illegal immigration.

Our goal is to provide an objective and accurate scientific evaluation of both the costs and benefits of gun ownership as well as policing activities.

Goals

  • Advance the scientific understanding of policing as well as the relationship between laws regulating the ownership or use of guns, crime, and public safety.
  • Improve the awareness and knowledge of this scientific understanding among the public, journalists, and policymakers.
  • Enhance public safety through these scientific advances and improved awareness and knowledge.

Core Activities

CPRC accomplishes these goals through a core set of activities that include:

  • Conducting and publishing academic quality research on the relationship between laws regulating the ownership or use of guns, crime and public safety.
  • Supporting affiliated academics in conducting and publishing similar research by means such as providing direct financial support, sharing data, and providing technical assistance.
  • Educating the public, journalists, and policy makers on the results of research on these issues by means such as books, public lectures, newspaper columns, academic seminars, and information briefings.
  • Making research and data available to researchers, the public, policy makers, and journalists by maintaining a comprehensive website.
  • Engaging in other related activities consistent with the mission and goals of CPRC.

President

CPRC was founded by Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., an economist and a world-recognized expert on guns and crime.  During the Trump administration, he served as the Senior Advisor for Research and Statistics in the Office of Justice Programs and then the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice. Lott has held research or teaching positions at various academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, UCLA, and Rice University, and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988-1989. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.

Nobel laureate Milton Friedman noted: โ€œJohn Lott has few equals as a perceptive analyst of controversial public policy issues.โ€

Lott is a prolific author for both academic and popular publications. He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and written ten books, including โ€œMore Guns, Less Crime,โ€ โ€œThe Bias Against Guns,โ€ and โ€œFreedomnomics.โ€ His most recent books are โ€œDumbing Down the Courts: How politics keeps the smartest judges off the benchโ€ and โ€œGun Control Myths.โ€

He has been one of the most productive and cited economists in the world (from 1969 to 2000 he ranked 26th worldwide in terms of quality-adjusted total academic journal output, 4th in terms of total research output, and 86th in terms of citations). Among economics, business, and law professors his research is currently the 15th most downloaded in the world. He is also a frequent writer of op-eds.

Lott can be reached at johnrlott@crimeresearch.org.

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