Peter Squires

Gender and Firearms (eBook, PDF)

My Body, My Choice, My Gun

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Private gun ownership for self-defence remains a major issue in the US, driven by concerns about crime, vulnerability and ideological factors including race and gender. This book explores the changing gendered aspects of gun ownership.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317130666
• Artikelnr.: 69854786

Autorenporträt

Peter Squires is Professor (Emeritus) of criminology and public policy at the University of Brighton, United Kingdom. His research interests include gun crime and gun control; youth crime and disorder; anti-social behaviour; weapons, crime, and violence; community safety; crime prevention; surveillance and policing. He is the author of Gun Culture or Gun Control: Firearms, Violence and Society (Routledge, 2000) and Gun Crime in Global Contexts (Routledge, 2014), Rethinking Knife Crime (2021) and the co-author of Shooting to Kill: Policing Firearms and Armed Response (2010) and several other books.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Opening shots and signs of change 2 Rights speak and
responsibilisation: Gun advertising, feminism and the production of the
woman gun-carrier 3 Packing pretty: Towards the armed action women 4 The
weaponised women of the movies 5 Personal choices and public consequences 6
Numbers games 7 Doctrine versus practice: Contradictions of gun ownership
and 'Stand Your Ground' for women 8 Concluding themes, other women and
looking forwards