Gun Crime in Global Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780415688598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 400 str.

Peter Squires

Opis

Since the atrocities of the Dunblane massacre in 1996, the issues and developments pertaining to guns violence and gun control have changed drastically. Indeed, the gap between the UK and the US in their attitudes and experience of gun culture has grown, and a number of important global and international issues have influenced important developments in sociological and criminological theory and scholarship. This book provides an overview of recent gun control arguments in the UK and an analysis of gun culture in the US.

Spis treści

Section 1: Introduction  1. Guns as a global issue  Section 2: Safe European Home?  2. Gun Crime in the UK: The Supply-side Story  3. Consequences of UK Gun Crime: Politics, Policy and Policing  Section 3: The land of the Free and the Home of the Gun  4. American exceptionalism? Weaponising the Neo-liberal Homeland  5. American Gun Crime: Themes and Issues, violences and silences  6. "Tell me why I don’t like Mondays": School and ‘Rampage’ Shootings  Section 4: Global Dimensions  7. The ‘American Dream’ and the Kalashnikov Nightmare  8. When the Shooting stops: from national responses to global arms control  9. Conclusion.

O autorze

Peter Squires has been a Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton since 2005, having worked at the Univesity of Brighton since 1986. He has published ten books (single or jointly authored, or edited), and has made numerous contributions to journals and other media. Professor Squires has a significant media profile, contributing regularly to TV, radio and news media debates on crime and criminal justice, and was profiled in The Guardian’s ‘leading academic experts’ series in 2007 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/oct/16/academicexperts.society]. His teaching and research interests extend across many sub-divisions of contemporary criminology, but specifically gun crime and gun control, gangs and youth crime. Professor Squires recently joined the ACPO Police National Independent Advisory Group on Criminal Use of Firearms.