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Gun violence in American society : crime, justice and public policy / / edited by Lisa A. Eargle and Ashraf Esmail ; contributors Reem A. Abu-Lughod [and twenty five others] |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Gun control - United States |
Firearms ownership - Government policy - United States |
Firearms - Law and legislation - United States |
Violence - United States - Prevention |
United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Gun Violence In American Society ; Contents ; Figures ; Tables ; Foreword ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter One-Piercing the Silence: An Overview of Gun Violence-Patterns, Profits, Protections and Policies ; Chapter Two-Shattered Self-Images: Narcissism. Egotistical Suicide and School Shooters ; Chapter Three-From Egostistical and Anomic Suicide to Egotistical and Anomic Homicide: Explaining The Aurora, Colorado Mass Shooting Using Durkheim, Merton and Agnew ; Chapter Four-School Shooters: The Progression From Social Rejection to Mass Murder |
Chapter Five-Institutional Correlates of Intimate Partner Gun Homicides Chapter Six-(Il)legal Guns and Homicide: A Case Study of New Orleans ; Chapter Seven-Do Firearms and Other Weapons Increase the Odds of Injury During an Assault? An Offender-Based Analysis ; Chapter Eight-No Help In Sight: The Impact of Trauma Center Closures on Gun Violence Survival ; Chapter Nine-Gun Violence in the U.S.: A Muted Type of Terrorism ; Chapter Ten-Applying A Disaster Process Framework to Studying Gun Violence: The Gun-Assisted Violence as |
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Disaster (GAVAD) Model |
Chapter Eleven-Framing Mass Gun Violence: A Content Analysis of Print Media Coverage of the Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary School Tragedies Chapter Twelve-Satirizing Mass Murder: What Many Think, Yet Few Will Say; Chapter Thirteen-Voices From Gun Violence Prevention Interest Groups: Prescriptive Solutions to Reducing the Problem ; Editors ; Contributors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book 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. |
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