Gun Present : Inside a Southern District Attorney's Battle Against Gun Violence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dewey, Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Webb, Hays.

Firearms and crime--Alabama.

Firearms and crime.

Firearms--Law and legislation--Alabama.

Firearms.

Gun control--United States.

Gun control.

Public prosecutors--Alabama.

Public prosecutors.

Violent crimes--Law and legislation--United States.

Violent crimes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors--an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney--present a deeply human portrait of prosecutors' work. Built on an immersive, community-based participatory partnership between researchers and criminal justice professionals, Gun Present chronicles how a justice assemblage comprising institutional structures and practices, relationships and roles, and individual moral and emotional worlds informs the day-to-day administration of justice. Weaving together in-depth interviews, quantitative analysis of more than a thousand criminal cases, analysis of trial transcripts, and over a year of ethnographic observations, Gun Present provides a model for scholar-practitioner collaborations.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Gun Present Cases

2. Institutional Structures and Practices

3. Relationships and Roles

4. Moral and Emotional Worlds

Conclusion: Criminology's Place in the Future of the Justice Assemblage

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520393691

0520393694

OCLC:

1428258006