03548nam 2200553 450 991079798030332120170918225757.00-7618-6705-8(CKB)3710000000540355(EBL)4206464(MiAaPQ)EBC4206464(EXLCZ)99371000000054035520160113h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierGun 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]Lanham, Maryland :University Press of America, Inc.,2016.©20161 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7618-6704-X Includes bibliographical references.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 MurderChapter 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 Disaster (GAVAD) ModelChapter 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 ; ContributorsThis 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.Gun controlUnited StatesFirearms ownershipGovernment policyUnited StatesFirearmsLaw and legislationUnited StatesViolenceUnited StatesPreventionUnited StatesfastGun controlFirearms ownershipGovernment policyFirearmsLaw and legislationViolencePrevention.363.330973Eargle Lisa A.Esmail AshrafAbu-Lughod Reem A.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797980303321Gun violence in American society3736670UNINA