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Language of the gun [electronic resource] : youth, crime, and public policy / Bernard E. Harcourt.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago, [Ill.] ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 278 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780226316079
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 303.60835 23
LOC classification:
  • HV9105.A68 H37 2006
Online resources: The author recounts interviews with youths in an all-male correctional facility, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in an attempt to understand some of the assumptions implicit in current handgun policies. He redraws the relationships among empirical research, law, and public policy.
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The author recounts interviews with youths in an all-male correctional facility, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in an attempt to understand some of the assumptions implicit in current handgun policies. He redraws the relationships among empirical research, law, and public policy.

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