Overview
- Broadens the canon by examining issues of firearm proliferation and firearm homicides and prevention in the Global South
- Discusses gun suicides, politicized election violence, and firearm-related attitudes, biases, and belief systems
- Considers the cultural history and impacts of gun, gun violence, and gun homicides
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society (PSRCS)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Australia
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Front Matter
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The Caribbean
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Front Matter
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Africa and Beyond
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About this book
This book provides in-depth coverage of guns, gun violence and gun homicides from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limited to, gender, suicide, peaceology and police (in)action. Reflecting changes in contemporary perceptions as well as desires for scholarship emanating from under-researched areas of the globe, this book addresses the pervasive issue of guns, gun violence and gun homicides. Authored by a wide range of Social Science experts, and premised on the notions of epistemological diversity, inclusivity and knowledge production in the Global South, this book provides comprehensive coverage on the nebulous concern of guns and their destructive force using differing approaches to the same problem, with a focus on prevention/reduction of gun violence. Readers may find the chapters contained in this book to be fascinating, provocative, informative, clearly presented and solution oriented. This book is of special interest to students, criminologists, policymakers, criminal justice system officials and laypersons. It is invaluable to policymakers at differing levels of government who provide advice on the social issue of guns and gun violence in their respective jurisdictions.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Wendell C. Wallace is Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. He is also an English trained barrister who practices law in Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Wallace has over fifteen years of policing experience and lectures at several tertiary institutions in Trinidad and Tobago in the disciplines of Politics, Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Guns, Gun Violence and Gun Homicides
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from the Caribbean, Global South and Beyond
Editors: Wendell C. Wallace
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84518-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84517-9Published: 12 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84520-9Published: 13 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84518-6Published: 11 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2517
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2525
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 360
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Crime Control and Security, Criminal Behavior, Forensic Psychology, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice