| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages) |
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Publication date from publisher website. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gun control -- United States.
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Firearms ownership -- Government policy -- United States.
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Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Violence -- United States -- Prevention.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Firearms -- Law and legislation |
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Firearms ownership -- Government policy |
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Gun control |
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Violence -- Prevention |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
| Added Author |
Eargle, Lisa A., editor.
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Esmail, Ashraf, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gun violence in American society. Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America Inc., [2016] 076186704X (DLC) 2015954134 |
| ISBN |
9780761867050 (ebook) |
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0761867058 |
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076186704X (paperback) |
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9780761867043 (paperback) |
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