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Here, the author recounts in-depth interviews with youths detained at an all-male correctional facility, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in an attempt to understand some of the assumptions implicit in current handgun policies. He redraws the relationships among empirical research, law, and public policy.

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"Bernard Harcourt is surely one of the most creative scholars working at the intersection of law, social science, and policy. In Language of the Gun, he presents a fresh and empirical look at the meaning of guns for youths that helps shed new light on broader theoretical and policy issues." - Calvin Morrill, University of California, Irvine"

Language of the Gun Youth Crime and Public Policy

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 15/02/2006
    ISBN13: 9780226316093, 978-0226316093
    ISBN10: 0226316092
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    Law Jurisprudence and general issues Violence and abuse in society

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Here, the author recounts in-depth interviews with youths detained at an all-male correctional facility, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in an attempt to understand some of the assumptions implicit in current handgun policies. He redraws the relationships among empirical research, law, and public policy.

    Trade Review
    "Bernard Harcourt is surely one of the most creative scholars working at the intersection of law, social science, and policy. In Language of the Gun, he presents a fresh and empirical look at the meaning of guns for youths that helps shed new light on broader theoretical and policy issues." - Calvin Morrill, University of California, Irvine"

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