Point blank : guns and violence in America
著者
書誌事項
Point blank : guns and violence in America
（Social institutions and social change : an Aldine de Gruyter series of texts and monographs）
A. de Gruyter, c1991
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全13件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-505) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Winner of the 1993 Michael J. Hindelang award of the American Society of Criminology.
By 1990 there were approximately 200 million guns in private hands in the United States, and around half of American households contained a gun. Over 30,000 people a year are killed with guns in suicides, homicides, and acci-dents, and Americans use guns for defensive purposes over a million times a year. There is little doubt that gun violence and control are issues of vital importance, and they continue to inspire national debate. It is doubtful, however, whether most gun debates are worth listening to. Not surprisingly, such debates generally leave their participants exactly where they began, with their biases intact, and onlookers perplexed.
Written deliberately to counter an atmosphere of hysteria and extremism. Point Blank, now in paperback, offers logi-cal argument supported by empirical information. It con-fronts fundamental questions head-on. On its initial publication in 1993, Point Blank won the Michael J. Hindelang Award of the American Society of Criminology for the book that -made the most outstanding contribution to criminology.- Point Blank reports both original research and assesses existing evidence drawn from a wide variety of academic disciplines, including criminology, sociology, law, and medicine.
「Nielsen BookData」 より