Full Description
This timely Handbook presents new insights and diverse perspectives on gun violence and the consequences of increased indiscriminate civilian firearm ownership. Expert contributors challenge the positivist and partisan paradigm of gun violence and firearm supply, arguing for drastically revised policy approaches.
Using analyses from across the social sciences including race and gender studies, victimology, psychology and anthropology, chapters interrogate a wide range of global, historical and regional dilemmas surrounding gun violence and society. Contributors examine the rapid development of social and technological innovation in gun production, supply and criminal misuse. Bringing together new empirical research with fresh academic insights, this Handbook sheds light on novel ways of understanding, investigating and preventing the gun violence that claims over 600 lives each day.
This Handbook is an insightful read for scholars and students in criminology, sociology, social policy and law, especially gun violence researchers. It is also a valuable resource for professionals and practitioners involved in gun violence and arms control, including activists, lobbyists, police and security personnel.
Contents
Contents
List of contributors vii
1 Introduction: gun proliferation, society, firearm-enabled violence and key
debates 1
Peter Squires
PART I SUPPLY-SIDE ISSUES
2 The role of criminal armourers in illegal firearm supply: a UK perspective 33
Helen Williamson
3 An evaluation of gun violence, gun homicides and firearm supply in
Tobago, the 'Capital of Paradise' 53
Wendell C. Wallace
4 The impact of illicit firearms on the convergence of crime and armed
violence in post-conflict states 69
Georgina Sinclair, Rohan Burdett and Martin Verrier
PART II COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
5 Comparative perspectives on firearm death and injury: the US, Canada, the
UK, and Australia 92
Wendy Cukier and Vivien Leung
6 The ambivalence asymmetry: comparing the heterogeneity of gun attitudes
between gun control supporters and opponents 117
Harel Shapira, Ken-Hou Lin, Patrick Sheehan and Chen Liang
7 A comparative analysis of US and Central and Eastern European gun
regulations 134
Alexei Anisin
8 Authorizing murder: understanding the effects of Brazil's gun control
reforms on criminal groups and far-right militants 147
Gabriel Funari and Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti
PART III GENDER MATTERS
9 Purchasing power? Women, violence and the US firearms market 164
Peter Squires
10 Man with a gun: masculinities, firearms and violence in global context 183
Tatiana Moura and Gary Barker
11 Firearms and violence against women and girls 197
Sarah Watson
12 Protecting the narrative: the NRA's strategic inclusion of Black women in
gun culture 213
Mary Kettering
PART IV LIVING WITH GUNS AND VIOLENCE
13 This is (not) a drill: active shooter classroom drills and affect theory 230
Charles Fruehling Springwood and Irving Epstein
14 Safe spaces or armed assemblies? How gun shows operate in the state of
Indiana 245
Callie Cleckner
15 Unsafe, uncertain or uneasy? Complex correlates of firearm attitudes and
behaviours in the United States 258
Tara D. Warner
16 Mass shootings in the United States 278
Frederic Lemieux
17 Caged birds and wandering stars: a medical anthropology of gunshot
wounds, retained bullets, and paralysis 291
Jason Pribilsky
18 Covering massacres, the fog of war and Nazi zombies: a novel
methodological approach to reporting gun violence 307
Iain Overton
PART V ENFORCEMENT QUESTIONS AND GUN CONTROLS
19 Firearms marketing, police carbines, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 325
R. Blake Brown
20 Policing firearms: the evolution of tactics and strategies 341
Simon Sneddon and Simon Feist
21 Responding to the threat of 'ghost guns' and illicit firearm and
ammunition manufacture 362
Rachel S. Bolton-King and Helen Poole
22 Exploring new methodologies to improve the understanding of gun
violence: the case of artificial intelligence - the Gunviolence.eu Incident
Monitor 383
Astrid de Schutter, Diederik Cops, Tom De Smedt and Nils Duquet
