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

n 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 the first 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. Rigorously comparative throughout, Peter Squires 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 * the future of the gun in society.

Self-Help

Squires, Peter

Death & Grief

Routledge

This book presents the first substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events such as the Dunblane disaster in 1996 and also examines many of the wider issues relating to gun control in the United Kingdom.

Gun Crime in Global Contexts

Every year around three-quarters of a million people die (directly or indirectly) as a result of gun violence, with most deaths occurring in the poorest, yet also most highly weaponized parts of the world. Firearm proliferation -- 875 million global firearms -- is a direct contributor to both regional conflicts and to crime. This book attempts to understand the inter-related dynamics of supply and demand which are weaponizing the world. Now over ten years after Peter Squires’s Gun Culture or Gun Control?, the issues pertaining to gun violence and gun control have developed dramatically. With Gun Crime in Global Contexts, Peter Squires offers a cutting-edge account of contemporary developments in the politics of gun crime and the social and theoretical issues that surround the problem. This book contains:     an innovative political analysis of neo-liberal globalization and weapon proliferation;   an overview of recent gun control debates and gang strategies in the UK;   an updated analysis of US gun politics: self-defence, race and the ‘culture war’;   a critical analysis of US school and rampage shootings, how they have impacted the gun debate and how different societies have responded to mass shootings;   an examination of the UN's development of an Arms Trade Treaty (2001--13);   a discussion of weapon trafficking;   discussions about youth gangs around the world, including those in Brazil, Kenya, West Africa, Mexico and South Africa.   With its interdisciplinary perspective and global reach, this book will be important reading for academics and students interested in youth and gang crime, violent crime and comparative criminal justice, as well as peace and security studies and international relations.

Teen & Young Adult

Shooting to Kill?: Policing, Firearms and Armed Response

Shooting to Kill? Policing, Firearms and Armed Response explores the dilemma of armed response policing in the UK, and policing in a gun culture. <ul>
<li>Offers the first critical exploration of the ACPO code of guidance on Police Use of Firearms and other tactical manuals</li> <li>Includes interviews with senior police firearms managers and critical case studies of police firearms incidents</li> <li>Features the first in-depth, academic analysis of the Stockwell shooting incident and the Kratos policy</li> <li>Provides a review of key developments in armed response policing around the world</li> <li>Describes the crucial phases in armed response policy development in Britain and explores the consequences of arming the police</li> </ul>

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kennison, Peter

Psychology & Counseling

wiley

Anti-social policy: Welfare, ideology, and the disciplinary state

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

Effective service provisions for young people are often said to be the key to Community Safety planning yet research frequently shows young people as over-controlled yet under-protected. Taking up this dilemma, this work draws upon a large survey of young people's attitudes towards the opportunities facing them and the communities in which they live. The book explores many aspects of young people's lives that adult society finds so disconcerting or threatening or which agency service providers find so difficult to address. The results of these surveys are contrasted with surveys amongst key agency personnel - social services, education, housing, police and the youth service - developing contrasting perspectives on "young people's needs". These findings are then further contrasted with a survey of adult community reactions, revealing markedly different levels of tolerance and intolerance. Discussion of the research findings is situated within a critical review of existing youth diversion and community safety policy initiatives which, by listening to young people and resisting the "demonization" of the young, attempts to take a fresh look at the contemporary "youth question".

Young People and Community Safety: Inclusion, Risk, Tolerance and Disorder

Measor, Lynda

Ashgate Pub Ltd

Gender and Firearms (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)

Reference

Rougher Justice

Stephen, Dawn

Willan

This title was first published in 2000: Effective service provisions for young people are often said to be the key to Community Safety planning yet research frequently shows young people as over-controlled yet under-protected. Taking up this dilemma, this work draws upon a large survey of young people's attitudes towards the opportunities facing them and the communities in which they live. The book explores many aspects of young people's lives that adult society finds so disconcerting or threatening or which agency service providers find so difficult to address. The results of these surveys are contrasted with surveys amongst key agency personnel - social services, education, housing, police and the youth service - developing contrasting perspectives on "young people's needs". These findings are then further contrasted with a survey of adult community reactions, revealing markedly different levels of tolerance and intolerance.

Young People and Community Safety: Inclusion, Risk, Tolerance and Disorder (Routledge Revivals)

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