Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America
Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America assembles a diverse group of the nation's leading authorities on guns and gun violence to present the most up-to-date research currently available. Exploring such controversial issues as gun- tracing initiatives, the possible extension of the Brady Bill, gun-oriented policing, federal law enforcement initiatives such as "Project Exile," and civil litigation against gun manufacturers, Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America embarks upon a more balanced and...
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Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America assembles a diverse group of the nation's leading authorities on guns and gun violence to present the most up-to-date research currently available. Exploring such controversial issues as gun- tracing initiatives, the possible extension of the Brady Bill, gun-oriented policing, federal law enforcement initiatives such as "Project Exile," and civil litigation against gun manufacturers, Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America embarks upon a more balanced and nuanced discussion about firearms. Though the book's contributors operate from a wide variety of political perspectives and methodological approaches, a central desire unifies the book: to end the extreme polarization that currently characterizes the debate on guns, and generate reasonable and practical gun policies in the United States. Contributors: Sara Sun Beale, Anthony A. Braga, Carl Bogus, Jenny Berrien, Abigail Caplovitz, Philip J. Cook, Garth Davies, Christopher Eisgruber, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Mark Geistfeld, James B. Jacobs, Dan M. Kahan, David Kairys, David B. Kopel, Sanford Levinson, Jens Ludwig, Daniel C. Richman, Jerome H. Skolnick, Richard Slotkin, Chris Winship, and Franklin E. Zimring.
Introduction1Pt. IThe Great American Gun Debates1Continuity and Change in the American Gun Debate292The Tyranny of Econometrics and the Circumspection of Liberalism: Two Problems with the Gun Debate443Equalizers: The Cult of the Colt in American Culture544"Hell no, you can't jack that fool. He stays strapped. He's strapped all the time": Talking about Guns at an All-Boy Correctional Facility in Tucson, Arizona685The Historians' Counterattack: Some Reflections on the Historiography of the Second Amendment916What Does the Second Amendment Restrict? A Collective-Rights Analysis1177Moral Principle and the Second Amendment140Pt. IIPolicy Interventions in the Gun Arena8New Law Enforcement Uses for Comprehensive Firearms Trace Data1639Policing Guns: Order Maintenance and Crime Control in New York19110Should We Have Faith in the Churches? The Ten-Point Coalition's Effect on Boston's Youth Violence22211Guns, Drugs, and Profiling: Ways to Target Guns and Minimize Racial Profiling24912The Effects of the Brady Act on Gun Violence28313Gun Shows and Gun Controls29914Project Exile and the Allocation of Federal Law Enforcement Authority32115The Unintended Consequences of Enhancing Gun Penalties34316The Cities Take the Initiative: Public Nuisance Lawsuits against Handgun Manufacturers36317Tort Law and Criminal Behavior (Guns)38418Guns and Burglars400Contributors421Acknowledgments430Index431
\ From the Publisher"A gathering of well known scholars and policy experts, Harcourt's Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America is an interesting and captivating read. Students of criminal justice will find the book current in analysis as well as thought provoking. Policy types will find it thoughtful and sophisticated. This book is a collection of ideas, not a hodgepodge of topically related articles. Taken together, they make for a very satisfying book."\ -The Law and Politics Book Review,\ \ \
