Christopher S. Koper

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Christopher S. Koper is criminologist at the University of Pennsylvania's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Firearm and Injury Center.

Koper specializes in research pertaining to firearms and gun violence, policing, research and statistical methodology, and white-collar crime.^[1] Koper has also evaluated federal laws and programs, including the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and the Community Oriented Policing Services(COPS) program.^[2]

Koper has also worked at the Urban Institute, the National Institute of Justice, the Police Foundation, and at the University of Maryland.

[edit] Publications

• Koper, Christopher S., Edward R. Maguire, Gretchen E. Moore, David E. Huffer (2001). Hiring and Retention Issues in Police Agencies: Readings on the Determinants of Police Strength, Hiring and Retention of Officers, and the Federal COPS Program. The Urban Institute. 
• Roth, Jeffrey A., Christopher S. Koper, William Adams, Sonja Johnson, John E. Marcotte, Andrew Scott, Maria Valera, Douglas A. Wissoker (1997). Impact Evaluation of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994. The Urban Institute. 
• Koper, Christopher S. (2004). An Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-2003, Report to the National Institute of Justice. 

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