Armed and Considered Dangerous - A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms

List of contents

1: The Criminal Acquisition and Use of Firearms; 2: The Felon Survey: Methods, Procedures, Descriptive Data; 3: Varieties of Armed Criminals: A Descriptive Typology; 4: Patterns of Weapons Ownership and Use: On the Circumstances of Criminal Violence; 5: Family, Friends, and Firearms the Effects of Socialization on Felons’ Weapons Behavior; 6: Motivations to Go Armed; 7: Confronting the Armed Victim; 8: The Criminal as a Firearms Consumer; 9: Patterns of Acquisition Where and How Felons Obtain Guns; 10: Patterns of Acquisition: Gun Theft; 11: Handgun Controls and Weapons Choice: The Substitution Issue; 12: “The Great American Gun War”: Some Policy Implications of the Felon Study

About the author

Peter H. Rossi

Summary

Armed and Considered Dangerous is a book about "bad guys" and their guns

Product details

• Authors: Peter H Rossi, Peter H. Rossi, James D Wright
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138518933
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51893-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education