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]

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.330973
• Soggetto topico: Gun control - United States; Firearms ownership - Government policy - United States; Firearms - Law and legislation - United States; Violence - United States - Prevention
• Soggetto geografico: United States
• Persona (resp. second.): EargleLisa A.; EsmailAshraf; Abu-LughodReem A.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gun violence in American society
• ISBN: 0-7618-6705-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797980303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II