Gun Culture or Gun Control? : Firearms and Violence: Safety and Society - Peter Squires

Gun Culture or Gun Control?

Firearms and Violence: Safety and Society

By: Peter Squires

Paperback | 21 September 2000 | Edition Number 1

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In 1996 the shooting and killing of 16 young children in a Dunblane primary school provoked wide reaching parliamentary reform to British gun laws. Within months virtually all privately owned handguns had been outlawed. Gun Culture or Gun Control? presents the first substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events in Dunblane and also examines many of the wider issues relating to gun control in the United Kingdom. Rigorously comparative throughout, Peter Squires provides a non-partisan exploration of the differences between attitudes to firearms and their control in Britain and in the United States. Amongst the topics the author considers are: the social history of firearms on both sides of the atlantic the differing policy directions adopted in Britain and the USA media coverage of the gun question firearms and policing the future of the gun in society. This book brings a combination of sociological, criminological, historical and political analysis to bear upon a wealth of fascinating new material.
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"Peter Squires, a reader in criminal justice studies at the University of Brighton, provides the broad strokes and fills in the details in comparing U.K. and U.S. gun policies in an analysis replete with historical and cultural material. Squires highlights various "discourses" employed in gun policy discussion, including crime control, public health, and in America, the frontier legacy.Peter Squires recognizes that in developing gun policies, "academic contributions - still less sociological or criminological ones - have tended to play only a fairly marginal role." With substantial academic contributions such as "Gun Control of Gun Culture? one can only hope that the margin is extended in the future.." -American Journal of Sociology "Squires is relentlessly sensible and measured in his judgements. He examines the reasoning on both sides of the gun control debate...." -American Journal of Sociology, November 2001.

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