Language of the gun [electronic resource] : youth, crime, and public policy / Bernard E. Harcourt.
By: Harcourt, Bernard E.
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BookPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006Description: xiii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Catalina Mountain School | Juvenile delinquents -- Arizona -- Tucson -- Attitudes | Firearms -- Social aspects | Youth and violence | Firearms and crime | Firearms ownership -- United States | Gun control -- United States | Social sciences -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.6/0835 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-269) and index.
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 -- Sartre and the phenomenological gaze -- L�evi-Strauss and the structural map -- Bourdieu and practice theory -- Butler and the performative -- Embracing the paradigm of dirty hands -- 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.
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