Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (v, 384 pages) : illustrations
Collana	S. hrg.
Soggetto topico	Self-defense (Law) - United States Civil rights - United States Homicide - United States Firearms ownership - United States Racial profiling in law enforcement - United States Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States Crime prevention - Citizen participation
Soggetto genere / forma	Legislative hearings.
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	"Stand your ground" laws
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910703764503321

Autore	Lee Matthew T
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (170 p.)
Disciplina	364.2/5
Collana	The new Americans
Soggetto topico	Crime - United States - Sociological aspects Homicide - United States Ethnic groups - United States Noncitizen criminals - United States - Public opinion Emigration and immigration - Social aspects
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-36136-0 9786610361366 1-59332-084-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: immigration as a criminological concern -- Immigration and crime: what do we know and how do we know it? -- Studying immigration and homicide -- The independent effects of immigration on homicide -- Geographic patterns and time trends -- Conclusion: immigration and the revitalization of urban communities.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450218603321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington, DC : , : U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, , 2020
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (various pagings) : color illustrations
Collana	Briefing report
Soggetto topico	Self-defense (Law) - United States Firearms - Law and legislation - United States Crime prevention - United States - Citizen participation Racism - United States Race discrimination - United States Homicide - United States
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	Examining the race effects of stand your ground laws
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910713524003321

Autore	Brogden Michael
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (221 p.)
Disciplina	364.15/23/0846
Soggetto topico	Age discrimination - United States Euthanasia - United States Homicide - United States Older people - Abuse of - United States Older people - Crimes against - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-84642-276-0 1-4175-0444-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455700303321

Autore	Brogden Michael
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (221 p.)
Disciplina	364.15/23/0846
Soggetto topico	Age discrimination - United States Euthanasia - United States Homicide - United States Older people - Abuse of - United States Older people - Crimes against - United States
ISBN	9781846422768 1846422760 9781417504442 1417504447
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Geronticide: Killing the Elderly -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Living too Long? -- Introduction -- The social context of ageing and geronticide -- Is longer life possible? -- Science and increasing the lifespan -- Ageing and decline: Consequences of extending the lifespan -- Outline of the book -- Geronticide and the elderly: Definitions -- 2. Death by Demography and Longevity -- The Problem of Longevity -- Population ageing in Western society -- Non-industrial societies and the demographic time bomb -- The dependency ratio and the social crisis -- Gender and the demography of ageing -- Social class and demography -- Ethnicity and the ageing population -- Demography and a finite food supply -- The social costs of the increasing elderly dependent population -- The cost of care -- Death-hastening by rationing -- Depression and self-killing amongst the elderly -- Limitations to the demographic time bomb thesis -- Responding to the critics -- Continuity in geronticide -- 3. Death by Social Obligation: The Political Economy Thesis -- Political economy: The elderly as non-producers -- Insights from patriarchy and from Marxist studies -- Nostalgia over primitive society -- The hunter-gatherer thesis -- The young-old versus the old-old -- Death-hastening in primitive society -- Ritual demarcation allowing geronticide: Concluding liminal status -- The liminal status passage -- Infanticide and geronticide -- Criticisms of political economy -- 4. Death by Attrition: Modernisation and the Workhouse -- Introduction -- The modernisation process -- Modernisation and social differentiation -- Modernisation and convergence -- Ageist ideology's contribution to death-hastening -- Inequality and uneven exposure to geronticide -- 5. Death by Degrees: Bureaucratisation in Care Institutions -- Introduction: The bureaucratisation of death. Dying in 'care' -- Making ready for death: the community-institution divide -- Abuse in institutional settings -- Making death 'ordinary' -- Ethnography of elderly death-hastening -- Direct death-hastening: 'Do not resuscitate' -- Regulation and inspection -- Elderly care as a business enterprise: 'Culling sheep or cattle' 46 -- Overview -- 6. Death in Literary Discourse -- Killing the elderly in literature -- Elderly defence against geronticide: Ashliman's collection -- Past to future: Science fiction and geronticide -- Death-hastening in the care and nursing home -- Ageism and the liminal status of the elderly -- Voluntary euthanasia -- Overview -- 7. Death by Choice?: Physician-assisted Suicide and Voluntary Euthanasia -- Introduction -- A brief history of suicide and voluntary euthanasia -- The situation today -- Voluntarism: Ageism, material and cultural pressures -- From physician-assisted suicide to voluntary euthanasia -- Aspects of the debate -- Vagueness of professional controls -- Pain relief ? Or alleviation of psychosocial problems? -- The long-term care alternative -- Patient autonomy versus medical autonomy -- Overview -- 8. Dr Shipman, Social Rights, and Preventing Geronticide -- Who kills the elderly? -- Professionalism and the case of Dr Harold Shipman -- Checking Geronticide -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9911105063203321