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Informationen zum Autor Lisa A. Eargle is a Board of Trustees Research Scholar, Professor and Chair ofSociology at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC. Her research focuses upon the areas of disasters and crime. Dr. Eargle is the co-editor of Black Beaches And Bayous: The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster (UPA, 2012) and Savage Sand And Surf: the Hurricane Sandy Disaster (UPA, 2015).Ashraf Esmail is the Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program at Dillard University in New Orleans. His research focuses upon a variety of criminological, educational, and multicultural issues. Dr. Esmail serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Peace/Anti-Violence Education and is the senior editor for the Journal of Education and Social Justice. Klappentext Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigation into one of society's major social, public health and political concerns-death, injury, and destruction from the use of firearms. Contributors employ a variety of theoretical, methodological, and data analysis frameworks to address different gun violence issues. They explore how gun violence is created and perpetuated in society, as well as the various forms and social contexts in which it appears. The impacts of gun violence on different social groups, communities, and social institutions are also delineated. Moreover, possible solutions to gun violence are presented. Zusammenfassung This book provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigation into one of society’s major social, public health and political concerns—death, injury, and destruction from the use of firearms. Contributors employ a variety of theoretical, methodological, and data analysis frameworks to address different gun violence issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis FiguresTablesForeword by Dr. Raymond M. Delaney, Jr. Preface by Dr. Lisa A. Eargle and Dr. Ashraf EsmailAcknowledgmentsChapter One: Piercing the Silence: An Overview of Gun Violence: Patterns, Profits, Protections and PoliciesLisa A. Eargle and Ashraf EsmailChapter Two: Shattered Self-Images: Narcissism, Egotistical Suicide and School ShootersSelina Doran and Mary Ann O'GradyChapter Three: From Egotistical and Anomic Suicide to Egotistical And Anomic Homicide: Explaining The Aurora, Colorado Mass Shooting Using Durkheim, Merton and AgnewDinur Blum and Christian G. JaworskiChapter Four: School Shooters: The Progression From Social Rejection to Mass MurderMartha Smithey Chapter Five: Institutional Correlates of Intimate Partner Gun HomicidesSheryl L. Van HorneChapter Six: (Il)legal Guns and Homicide: A Case Study of New OrleansJessica M. Doucet, Julia D'Antonio-Del Rio, and Chantel D. ChauvinChapter Seven: Do Firearms and Other Weapons Increase the Odds of Injury During an Assault? An Offender-Based AnalysisNicole M. Schmidt, Christopher A. Kierkus, and Alan J. LizotteChapter Eight: No Help In Sight: the Impact of Trauma Center Closures on Gun Violence SurvivalNoam Ostrander and Anna JohnsonChapter Nine: Gun Violence in the U.S.: A Muted Type of TerrorismReem A. Abu-LughodChapter Ten: Applying A Disaster Process Framework to Studying Gun Violence: The Gun-Assisted Violence as Disaster (GAVAD) Model Lisa A. EargleChapter Eleven: Framing Mass Gun Violence: A Content Analysis of Print Media Coverage of the Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary School TragediesJames Hawdon, Laura Agnich, Robert Wood and John RyanChapter Twelve: Satirizing Mass Murder: What Many Think, Yet Few Will SayJaclyn Schildkraut, H. Jaymi Elsass, and Glenn W. MuschertChapter Thirteen: Voices From Gun Violence Prevention Interest Groups: Prescriptive Solutions to Reducing the ProblemSelina Doran...
