Gun crime in global contexts /

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Main Author: Squires, Peter, 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Guns as a global issue
  • Safe European home?
  • Gun crime in the UK : the supply-side story
  • Consequences of UK gun crime : politics, policy and policing
  • The land of the free and the home of the gun
  • American exceptionalism? : weaponising the neo-liberal homeland
  • American gun crime : themes and issues, violences and silences
  • "Tell me why I don't like Mondays" : school and "rampage" shootings
  • Global dimensions
  • The "American dream" and the kalashnikov nightmare
  • When the shooting stops : from national responses to global arms control
  • Conclusion.