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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       Subjects     Gun control -- United States.     Firearms ownership -- Government policy -- United States.     Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States.     Violence -- United States -- Prevention.     Browse Catalog       by title:      Gun violence in Amer...         MARC Display

Gun violence in American society : crime, justice and public policy / edited by Lisa A. Eargle and Ashraf Esmail. Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America Inc., c2016. Subjects Gun control -- United States.   Firearms ownership -- Government policy -- United States.   Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States.   Violence -- United States -- Prevention. ISBN:  9780761867043 (paperback) : Description:  xiv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents:  Piercing the silence : an overview of gun violence : patterns, profits, protections and policies / Lisa A. Eargle and Ashraf Esmail -- Shattered self-images : narcissism, egotistical suicide and school shooters / Selina Doran and Mary Ann O'Grady -- From egotistical and anomic suicide to egotistical and anomic homicide : explaining the Aurora, Colorado mass shooting using Durkheim, Merton and Agnew / Dinur Blum and Christian G. Jaworski -- School shooters : the progression from social rejection to mass murder / Martha Smithey -- Institutional correlates of intimate partner gun homicides / Sheryl L. Van Horne -- (Il)legal guns and homicide : a case study of New Orleans / Jessica M. Doucet, Julia D'Antonio-Del Rio, and Chantel D. Chauvin -- Do firearms and other weapons increase the odds of injury during an assault? : an offender-based analysis / Nicole M. Schmidt, Christopher A. Kierkus, and Alan J. Lizotte -- No help in sight : the impact of trauma center closures on gun violence survival / Noam Ostrander and Anna Johnson -- Gun violence in the U.S. : a muted type of terrorism / Reem A. Abu-Lughod -- Applying a disaster process framework to studying gun violence : the gun-assisted violence as disaster (GAVAD) model / Lisa A. Eargle -- Framing mass gun violence : a content analysis of print media coverage of the Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedies / James Hawdon, Laura Agnich, Robert Wood and John Ryan -- Satirizing mass murder : what many think, yet few will say / Jaclyn Schildkraut, H. Jaymi Elsass, and Glenn W. Muschert -- Voices from gun violence prevention interest groups : prescriptive solutions to reducing the problem / Selina Doran. Requests:  0 Summary:  Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy 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, including how gun violence is created and perpetuated in society, the various forms and social contexts in which it appears, and the impact of gun violence on different social groups, communities, and social institutions. Possible solutions to gun violence are also explored.--Adapted from publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 363.33097 Gu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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