Guns, crime, and punishment in America / edited by Bernard E. Harcourt.
2003
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Guns, crime, and punishment in America / edited by Bernard E. Harcourt.
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2003]
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©2003
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HV7436 .G8775 2003
ISBN
0814736556 (alk. paper)
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xii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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(OCoLC)51117344
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-
Table of Contents
Introduction / Bernard E. Harcourt
1
Pt. I
The Great American Gun Debates
1
Continuity and Change in the American Gun Debate / Franklin E. Zimring
29
2
The Tyranny of Econometrics and the Circumspection of Liberalism: Two Problems with the Gun Debate / Dan M. Kahan
44
3
Equalizers: The Cult of the Colt in American Culture / Richard Slotkin
54
4
"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, Arizona / Bernard E. Harcourt
68
5
The Historians' Counterattack: Some Reflections on the Historiography of the Second Amendment / Sanford Levinson
91
6
What Does the Second Amendment Restrict? A Collective-Rights Analysis / Carl Bogus
117
7
Moral Principle and the Second Amendment / Christopher L. Eisgruber
140
Pt. II
Policy Interventions in the Gun Arena
8
New Law Enforcement Uses for Comprehensive Firearms Trace Data / Philip J. Cook Anthony A. Braga
163
9
Policing Guns: Order Maintenance and Crime Control in New York / Jeffrey A. Fagan Garth Davies
191
10
Should We Have Faith in the Churches? The Ten-Point Coalition's Effect on Boston's Youth Violence / Jerry Berrien Christopher Winship
222
11
Guns, Drugs, and Profiling: Ways to Target Guns and Minimize Racial Profiling / Jerome H. Skolnick Abigail Caplovitz
249
12
The Effects of the Brady Act on Gun Violence / Jens Ludwig Philip J. Cook
283
13
Gun Shows and Gun Controls / James B. Jacobs
299
14
Project Exile and the Allocation of Federal Law Enforcement Authority / Daniel C. Richman
321
15
The Unintended Consequences of Enhancing Gun Penalties / Sara Sun Beale
343
16
The Cities Take the Initiative: Public Nuisance Lawsuits against Handgun Manufacturers / David Kairys
363
17
Tort Law and Criminal Behavior (Guns) / Mark Geistfeld
384
18
Guns and Burglars / David B. Kopel
400
Contributors
421
Acknowledgments
430
Index
431