Gun violence in American society : crime, justice and public policy / edited by Lisa A. Eargle and Ashraf Esmail.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eargle, Lisa A., editor.

Esmail, Ashraf, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gun control--United States.

Gun control.

Firearms ownership--Government policy.

Firearms ownership.

United States.

Firearms ownership--Government policy--United States.

Firearms--Law and legislation--United States.

Firearms.

Firearms--Law and legislation.

Violence--United States--Prevention.

Violence.

Physical Description:

xiv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, [2015]

Summary:

Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigation into one of society's major social, public health and political concerns--death, injury, and destruction from the use of firearms. Contributors employ a variety of theoretical, methodological, and data analysis frameworks to address different gun violence issues, including how gun violence is created and perpetuated in society, the various forms and social contexts in which it appears, and the impact of gun violence on different social groups, communities, and social institutions. Possible solutions to gun violence are also explored.--Adapted from publisher description.

Contents:

Piercing the silence : an overview of gun violence : patterns, profits, protections and policies / Lisa A. Eargle and Ashraf Esmail

Shattered self-images : narcissism, egotistical suicide and school shooters / Selina Doran and Mary Ann O'Grady

From egotistical and anomic suicide to egotistical and anomic homicide : explaining the Aurora, Colorado mass shooting using Durkheim, Merton and Agnew / Dinur Blum and Christian G. Jaworski

School shooters : the progression from social rejection to mass murder / Martha Smithey

Institutional correlates of intimate partner gun homicides / Sheryl L. Van Horne

(Il)legal guns and homicide : a case study of New Orleans / Jessica M. Doucet, Julia D'Antonio-Del Rio, and Chantel D. Chauvin

Do firearms and other weapons increase the odds of injury during an assault? : an offender-based analysis / Nicole M. Schmidt, Christopher A. Kierkus, and Alan J. Lizotte

No help in sight : the impact of trauma center closures on gun violence survival / Noam Ostrander and Anna Johnson

Gun violence in the U.S. : a muted type of terrorism / Reem A. Abu-Lughod

Applying a disaster process framework to studying gun violence : the gun-assisted violence as disaster (GAVAD) model / Lisa A. Eargle

Framing mass gun violence : a content analysis of print media coverage of the Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedies / James Hawdon, Laura Agnich, Robert Wood and John Ryan

Satirizing mass murder : why many think, yet few will say / Jaclyn Schildkraut, H. Jaymi Elsass, and Glenn W. Muschert

Voices from gun violence prevention interest groups : prescriptive solutions to reducing the problem / Selina Doran.

Notes:

Publication date from publisher website.

ISBN:

076186704X

9780761867043

OCLC:

927382005