Confronting gun violence in America /

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Author / Creator:	Gabor, Thomas, author.
Imprint:	Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States. Gun control -- United States. Violent crimes -- United States. Firearms and crime -- United States. Firearms and crime. Firearms -- Law and legislation. Gun control. Violent crimes. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12455273

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ISBN:	9783319337234 3319337238 9783319337227 331933722X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 25, 2016).
Summary:	This book critically examines the link between guns and violence. It weighs the value of guns for self-protection against the adverse effects of gun ownership and carrying. It also analyses the role of public opinion, the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, and the firearms industry and lobby in impeding efforts to prevent gun violence. Confronting Gun Violence in America explores solutions to the gun violence problem in America, a country where 90 people die from gunshot wounds every day. The wide-range of solutions assessed include: a national gun licensing system; universal background checks; a ban on military-style weapons; better regulatory oversight of the gun industry; the use of technologies, such as the personalization of weapons; child access prevention; repealing laws that encourage violence; changing violent norms; preventing retaliatory violence; and strategies to rebuild American communities. This accessible and incisive book will be of great interest to students and researchers in criminology and sociology, as well as practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in gun ownership and violence.
Other form:	Print version: Gabor, Thomas. Confronting Gun Violence in America. Cham : Springer International Publishing, ©2016 9783319337227

Table of Contents:

Part I. The Scale of America's Gun Problem
Chapter 1. America's Gun Violence Problem
Chapter 2. Gun Ownership in the United States
Part II. Harms Associated with Firearms
Chapter 3. Gun Deaths: The United States Versus the World
Chapter 4. Homicide and the Instrumentality Effect
Chapter 5. Mass Shootings: An Escalating Threat
Chapter 6. Suicide: Impact of Lethal Methods
Chapter 7. Unintentional Deaths: Unavoidable or Preventable?
Chapter 8. The Deadliest States
Part III. Guns as a Means of Self-Defense
Chapter 9. Armed Self-Defense 1: The Number of Defensive Gun Uses
Chapter 10. Armed Self-Defense II: Protection or Hazard?
Part IV. Obstacles to Gun Violence Prevention Efforts
Chapter 11. The Firearms Industry: Guns as a Business
Chapter 12. The "Guns Everywhere" Movement
Chapter 13. Public Opinion: An Impediment to Reform?
Chapter 14. Slogans Relating to Gun Violence: Fact or Fiction?
Chapter 15. The Second Amendment: Is Gun Regulation Compatible with the Constitution?
Part V. Preventing Gun Violence
Chapter 16. A National Strategy for Preventing Gun Violence.

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