Gun Violence in American Society

Crime, Justice and Public Policy

Lisa A. Eargle, Ashraf Esmail

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780761867050
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Public Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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. They explore how gun violence is created and perpetuated in society, as well as the various forms and social contexts in which it appears. The impacts of gun violence on different social groups, communities, and social institutions are also delineated. Moreover, possible solutions to gun violence are presented.

Table of contents

• Figures
• Tables
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One—Piercing the Silence: An Overview of Gun Violence—Patterns, Profits, Protections and Policies
• Chapter Two—Shattered Self-Images: Narcissism, Egotistical Suicide and School Shooters
• Chapter Three—From Egotistical and Anomic Suicide to Egotistical and Anomic Homicide: Explaining The Aurora, Colorado Mass Shooting Using Durkheim, Merton and Agnew
• Chapter Four—School Shooters: The Progression From Social Rejection to Mass Murder
• Chapter Five—Institutional Correlates of Intimate Partner Gun Homicides
• Chapter Six—(Il)legal Guns and Homicide: A Case Study of New Orleans
• Chapter Seven—Do Firearms and Other Weapons Increase the Odds of Injury During an Assault? An Offender-Based Analysis
• Chapter Eight—No Help In Sight: The Impact of Trauma Center Closures on Gun Violence Survival
• Chapter Nine—Gun Violence in the U.S.: A Muted Type of Terrorism
• Chapter Ten—Applying A Disaster Process Framework to Studying Gun Violence: The Gun-Assisted Violence as Disaster (GAVAD) Model
• Chapter Eleven—Framing Mass Gun Violence: A Content Analysis of Print Media Coverage of the Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary School Tragedies
• Chapter Twelve—Satirizing Mass Murder: What Many Think, Yet Few Will Say
• Chapter Thirteen—Voices From Gun Violence Prevention Interest Groups: Prescriptive Solutions to Reducing the Problem
• Editors
• Contributors