Peter Squires

Gun Crime in Global Contexts (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

With Gun Crime in Global Contexts, Peter Squires offers a cutting-edge account of contemporary developments in the politics of gun crime and the social and theoretical issues that surround the problem. With its interdisciplinary perspective and global reach, this book will be important reading for academics and students interested in youth and gang crime, violent crime and comparative criminal justice, as well as peace and security studies and international relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136184635
• Artikelnr.: 41295370

Autorenporträt

Peter Squires has been a Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton since 2005, having worked at the Univesity of Brighton since 1986. He has published ten books (single or jointly authored, or edited), and has made numerous contributions to journals and other media. Professor Squires has a significant media profile, contributing regularly to TV, radio and news media debates on crime and criminal justice, and was profiled in The Guardian's 'leading academic experts' series in 2007 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/oct/16/academicexperts.society]. His teaching and research interests extend across many sub-divisions of contemporary criminology, but specifically gun crime and gun control, gangs and youth crime. Professor Squires recently joined the ACPO Police National Independent Advisory Group on Criminal Use of Firearms.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Introduction 1. Guns as a global issue Section 2: Safe European
Home? 2. Gun Crime in the UK: The Supply-side Story 3. Consequences of UK
Gun Crime: Politics, Policy and Policing Section 3: The land of the Free
and the Home of the Gun 4. American exceptionalism? Weaponising the
Neo-liberal Homeland 5. American Gun Crime: Themes and Issues, violences
and silences 6. "Tell me why I don't like Mondays": School and 'Rampage'
Shootings Section 4: Global Dimensions 7. The 'American Dream' and the
Kalashnikov Nightmare 8. When the Shooting stops: from national responses
to global arms control 9. Conclusion.