Guns 360

Differing Perspectives and Common-Sense Approaches to Firearms in America
Herausgeber: See, Eric S.; See, Sarah A.; Bellas, Christopher M.

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Produktbeschreibung

Guns 360 takes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and common-sense approach to some of the most difficult issues facing not only the criminal justice system but also society as a whole: firearm possession, regulation, and control.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 474
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 914g
• ISBN-13: 9781538140673
• ISBN-10: 1538140675
• Artikelnr.: 59988052

Autorenporträt

Eric S. See is professor and division head of criminal justice and military science at Methodist University. Christopher M. Bellas is associate professor and graduate coordinator in the department of criminal justice and consumer sciences at Youngstown State University. Sarah A. See is assistant professor in the division of criminal justice and military science at Methodist University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: An Introduction to Firearm Types, Markets, and Ownership
Chapter One: Gadget Guns: A Legal and Ethical Examination of a Unique
Portion of the Firearms Market by Eric S. See and Sarah A. See
Chapter Two: Regulating the American Firearms Market: Understanding the
Economics of Guns by Josiah R. Baker
Chapter Three: The International Guns Market by Josiah R. Baker
Chapter Four: A Critique of Some Phenomenological Studies on Guns and Gun
Ownership by Michael Potts
Part Two: Firearms and the Public: Messages from the Media, the Police, and
the NRA
Chapter Five: Media Message on Guns: It's Complicated by Kevin Swift
Chapter Six: Guns, Maps and, Media: Silencers and Loud Reports by Dan
Trigoboff
Chapter Seven: Guns in America: Public Opinion, Research, and the Role of
the NRA by Paul Knudson
Chapter Eight: What Every Civilian Needs to Know from Professional Law
Enforcement Firearms Instructors by David Wulff and Joseph Binns
Part Three: Economics, Psychology, Politics, and Race
Chapter Nine: The Use and Misuse of Gun Data by Matthew Dobra
Chapter Ten: Guns in American Politics by Christopher Lee Cronin
Chapter Eleven: Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Summary of Psychological
Research on Gun Violence by Mark Kline
Chapter Twelve: Guns and the African American Community by Lisa G. Long
Part Four: Firearms and Public Health
Chapter Thirteen: Applying Public Health Outcomes to the Culture of Gun
Violence by Michelle L. Foster
Chapter Fourteen: Public Health and Guns by Deborah Morris
Chapter Fifteen: The Social Construction of Mental Illness and Its Relation
to Gun Control by J. Scott Lewis
Part Five: Firearms at Work and School
Chapter Sixteen: Guns at Work: Management Considerations and Workplace
Policies by Mark R. Regensburger
Chapter Seventeen: Rational-Based Policies and Irrational Actors: An
Examination of Recent Tragedies at Domestic Military Installations, Houses
of Worship, and Schools by David A. Mackey
Chapter Eighteen: The Effect of School Mass Shootings: Should We Be Arming
Our Teachers and Students? By Nicole A. Shoenberger
Chapter Nineteen: The Tragedy of Firearms in American Schools: Student
Voices, Perspectives, and Experiences by Bertha Llamas, Madeline Yeung,
Mikaela Brosh, Kayla Birmingham, and Robert Szewczyk
Chapter Twenty: Weapons Prohibited: An Examination of Issues Regarding
Possession of Firearms on College Campuses by Haley Lapcevich, Jason Simon,
Amanda Moreschi, Courtney Platt, and Justin Shaughnessy
Part Six: Understanding the Role of Firearms in Legal and Investigative
Issues
Chapter Twenty-One: Investigation of Firearm-Related Crimes by Mark
Vecellio and Steve Downs
Chapter Twenty-Two: Patterns in Homicide: Revisited by Mary G. Wilson and
Michelle L. Foster
Chapter Twenty-Three: Stand Your Ground Laws and the Evolution of
Self-Defense in the United States by Christopher M. Bellas
Chapter Twenty-Four: Guns and Domestic Violence: When Home Isn't so Sweet
by Monica Merrill
Chapter Twenty-Five: Guns and the Dark Web: How Technological Advances
Easily Facilitate Access to Firearms and Other Weaponry by Sabrina Koncaba
and Karla Weinbrenner