Gun Present - Inside a Southern District Attorney''s Battle Against Gun Violence

Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors-an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney-present a deeply human portrait of prosecutors' work. Built on an immersive, community-based participatory partnership between researchers and criminal justice professionals, Gun Present chronicles how a justice assemblage comprising institutional structures and practices, relationships and roles, and individual moral and emotional worlds informs the day-to-day administration of justice. Weaving together in-depth interviews, quantitative analysis of more than a thousand criminal cases, analysis of trial transcripts, and over a year of ethnographic observations, Gun Present provides a model for scholar-practitioner collaborations.

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• Authors: Susan Dewey, Susan Vandeberg Dewey, Dewey Susan, Brittany VandeBerg, Hays Webb
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2024
• EAN: 9780520393684
• ISBN: 978-0-520-39368-4
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / Jurisprudence, Gender studies, gender groups, Jurisprudence & general issues, Central Southern States, US South, Jurisprudence and general issues, Criminal law: offences against the person, Offences against the person, Offences against public health, safety, order