Language of the gun : youth, crime, and public policy /

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Author / Creator:Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11206563
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ISBN:9780226316079
0226316076
9780226316086
0226316084
0226316084
0226316092
1282537598
9781282537590
9786612537592
6612537590
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:The author recounts interviews with youths in an all-male correctional facility, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in an attempt to understand some of the assumptions implicit in current handgun policies. He redraws the relationships among empirical research, law, and public policy.
Other form:Print version: Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963- Language of the gun. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006 9780226316093
Standard no.:9780226316086