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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.

This critical textbook looks beyond the immediate data on knife crime to try and make sense of what is a global phenomenon. Yet it especially explores why the UK in particular has become so preoccupied by this form of interpersonal, often youthful, violence. The book explores knife crime in its global and historical context and examines crime patterns including the "second wave" of knife crime in Britain. It then incorporates new empirical dat...

Anti-social behavior (ASB) has been a preoccupation of the UK government's project of social and political renewal, with anti-social behavior orders (ASBOs) being a controversial addition to crime and disorder management powers. Thought by some to be a da

This book presents the first substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events such as the Dunblane disaster in 1996 and also examines many of the wider issues relating to gun control in the United Kingdom.

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.

Every year around three-quarters of a million people die (directly or indirectly) as a result of gun violence, with most deaths occurring in the poorest, yet also most highly weaponized parts of the world. Firearm proliferation -- 875 million global firearms -- is a direct contributor to both regional conflicts and to crime. This book attempts to understand the inter-related dynamics of supply and demand which are weaponizing the world. Now ov...

Shooting to Kill? Policing, Firearms and Armed Response" explores the dilemma of armed response policing in the UK, and policing in a gun culture. Offers the first critical exploration of the ACPO code of guidance on Police Use of Firearms and other tactical manualsIncludes interviews with senior police firearms managers and critical case studies of police firearms incidentsFeatures the first in-depth, academic analysis of the Stockwell shooti...

n 1996 the shooting and killing of 16 young children in a Dunblane primary school provoked wide reaching parliamentary reform to British gun laws. Within months virtually all privately owned handguns had been outlawed. Gun Culture or Gun Control? presents the first substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events in Dunblane and also examines many of the wider issues relating to gun control in the United Kingdom. Rigorously...

With Gun Crime in Global Contexts, Peter Squires offers a cutting-edge account of contemporary developments in the politics of gun crime and the social and theoretical issues that surround the problem. With its interdisciplinary perspective and global reach, this book will be important reading for academics and students interested in youth and gang crime, violent crime and comparative criminal justice, as well as peace and security studies and...

Shooting to Kill? Policing, Firearms and Armed Response" explores the dilemma of armed response policing in the UK, and policing in a gun culture. Offers the first critical exploration of the ACPO code of guidance on Police Use of Firearms and other tactical manualsIncludes interviews with senior police firearms managers and critical case studies of police firearms incidentsFeatures the first in-depth, academic analysis of the Stockwell shooti...

Community safety emerged as a new approach to tackling and preventing UK local crime and disorder in the late 1980s and was adopted into mainstream policy by UKs New Labour in the late '90s. Twenty years on, it is important to ask how the community safety agenda has evolved and developed within local crime and disorder prevention strategies.

Community safety emerged as a new approach to tackling and preventing UK local crime and disorder in the late 1980s and was adopted into mainstream policy by UKs New Labour in the late '90s. Twenty years on, it is important to ask how the community safety agenda has evolved and developed within local crime and disorder prevention strategies. Community Safety provides the first sustained critical and theoretically informed analysis of this topi...

Anti-social behavior (ASB) has been a preoccupation of the UK government's project of social and political renewal, with anti-social behavior orders (ASBOs) being a controversial addition to crime and disorder management powers. Thought by some to be a da