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Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigatio
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Every year around three-quarters of a million people die (directly or indirectly) as a result of gun violence, with most
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Amid a growing consensus that the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States is an urgent public health issue,
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Mass killings. Gang violence. Street crimes. Suicides. Accidental shootings. The United States is enduring a literal epi
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This edited collection explores the politics of crime and violence in Latin America through both theoretical reflections
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In many U.S. cities, gun violence is the most urgent crime problem. High rates of deadly violence make a city less livab
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An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century Unit
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Addresses the issues surrounding the increasingly larger number of females buying guns for sport, work, and protection,
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Women, we are told, should not own guns. Women, we are told, are more likely to be injured by their own guns than to fen
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