Gun Culture or Gun Control? : Firearms and Violence: Safety and Society

ISBN-13: 9780415170864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 272 str.

Peter Squires

Opis

In 1996 the shooting and killing of 16 young children in a Dunblane primary school provoked wide reaching parliamentary reform to British gun laws. Within months virtually all privately owned handguns had been outlawed. Gun Culture or Gun Control? presents a substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events in Dunblane and also examines many of the wider issues relating to gun control in the United Kingdom. It provides a non-partisan exploration of the differences between attitudes to firearms and their control in Britain and in the United States. Amongst the topics the author considers are: the social history of firearms on both sides of the Atlantic; the differing policy directions adopted in Britain and the USA; media coverage of the gun question; firearms and policing; and the future of the gun in society. This book brings a combination of sociological, criminological, historical and political analysis to bear upon a range of material.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Why guns? 2. The Spectre of the Gun: Historical and cultural perspectives 3. The Making of the American 'Gun Culture' 4. Discovery and Construction: Media coverage of the 'gun question' 5. Tragedy, Aftermath and Politics 6. Taking Stock of the Gun Control Arguments 7. Conclusion: Culture and ricochets

O autorze

Peter Squires