Philip J Cook, Kristin A Goss

Gebundenes Buch

Gun Debate

Beschreibung

Guns in America: What Everyone Needs to Know takes readers on a tour of the issues that Americans debate when they talk about guns. The volume includes information on gun control pertaining to U.S. history, jurisprudence, cultural beliefs, political agendas, epidemiologcal data, criminology, law and regulation, and policy effectiveness.

Autor

Philip J. Cook is ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Sociology at Duke University; author of Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control, (Princeton University Press, 2007), Gun Violence: The Real Costs (Oxford University Press, 2000), Evaluating Gun Policy (Brookings Institution Press, 2003), with Charles Clotfelter Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America, (Harvard University Press, 1989), and with Robert H. Frank The Winner-Take-All Society, (The Free Press, 1995). Kristin A Goss is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University; author of Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America (Princeton University Press, 2006, 2009), and The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice (forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780199338986
• ISBN-10: 0199338981
• Artikelnr.: 40304686