Language of the gun : youth, crime, and public policy / Bernard E. Harcourt.
2006
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Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-
Title
Language of the gun : youth, crime, and public policy / Bernard E. Harcourt.
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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HV9105.A68 H37 2006
ISBN
0226316084 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226316086 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226316092 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226316093 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226316086 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226316092 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226316093 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Description
xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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(OCoLC)60650960
Summary
Legal and public policies concerning youth gun violence tend to rely heavily on crime reports, survey data, and statistical methods. Rarely is attention given to the young voices belonging to those who carry high-powered semiautomatic handguns. In "Language of the Gun," Bernard E. Harcourt recounts in-depth interviews with youths detained at an all-male correctional facility in the Arizona desert, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in a broader attempt to understand some of the assumptions implicit in current handgun policies. In the process, Harcourt redraws the relationship between empirical research, law, and public policy. -- From publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.
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Table of Contents
Catalina Mountain School, Tucson, Arizona
A road map of the Catalina interviews
Symbolic dimensions and primary meanings
Three clusters of primary meanings
Placing the clusters in practice contexts
The sensual, moral, and political dimensions of guns
Sartre and the phenomenological gaze
Lévi-Strauss and the structural map
Bourdieu and practice theory
Butler and the performative
Embracing the paradigm of dirty hands
A genealogy of the youth gun field
The landscape of law and public policy
Leaps of faith in Levitt and Bourgois
Making ethical choices in law and public policy.
A road map of the Catalina interviews
Symbolic dimensions and primary meanings
Three clusters of primary meanings
Placing the clusters in practice contexts
The sensual, moral, and political dimensions of guns
Sartre and the phenomenological gaze
Lévi-Strauss and the structural map
Bourdieu and practice theory
Butler and the performative
Embracing the paradigm of dirty hands
A genealogy of the youth gun field
The landscape of law and public policy
Leaps of faith in Levitt and Bourgois
Making ethical choices in law and public policy.