Language of the Gun Youth, Crime, and Public Policy

Name: Language of the Gun Youth, Crime, and Public Policy
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ISBN: 9780226316093

ISBN-10: 0226316092

ISBN-13: 9780226316093

Edition: 2006

Authors: Bernard E. Harcourt

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Legal and public policies concerning youth gun violence tend to rely heavily on crime reports, survey data, and statistical methods. Rarely is attention given to the young voices belonging to those who carry high-powered semiautomatic handguns. In Language of the Gun, Bernard E. Harcourt recounts in-depth interviews with youths detained at an all-malecorrectional facility, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in a broader attempt to understand some of the assumptions implicit in current handgun policies. In the process, Harcourt redraws the relationships among empirical research, law, and public policy. Home to over 150 repeat offenders ranging in age…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880

Bernard Harcourt is Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science at University of Chicago.



Preface



A Semiotic of the Gun



Catalina Mountain School, Tucson, Arizona



A Road Map of the Catalina Interviews



Symbolic Dimensions and Primary Meanings



Three Clusters of Primary Meanings



Placing the Clusters in Practice Contexts



The Sensual, Moral, and Political Dimensions of Guns



Exploring Methodological Sensibilities



Sartre and the Phenomenological Gaze



Levi-Strauss and the Structural Map



Bourdieu and Practice Theory



Butler and the Performative



Embracing the Paradigm of Dirty Hands



Mapping Law and Public Policy



A Genealogy of the Youth Gun Field



The Landscape of Law and Public Policy



Leaps of Faith in Levitt and Bourgois



Making Ethical Choices in Law and Public Policy


Acknowledgments



Treatment of Juvenile Records in State Sentencing


Notes


References


Index