Gun Violence and Gun Control: Critical Engagements
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Gun Violence and Gun Control: Critical Engagements by Thomas Harrison
This interdisciplinary anthology explores a wide range of intersecting issues contributing to and arising from gun violence. Millions of people are hurt and killed by gun violence globally, and the traumatic realities of these events are navigated by individuals and communities widely. In this context, gun violence fundamentally threatens social functioning in significant ways, and profoundly test the resilience of families. The resulting transformations carry social, political, legal, and economic implications for mothering, family dynamics, and community engagement. This collaborative volume brings together diverse perspectives intended to deconstruct perceptions, realities, risks, and impacts of gun violence, as seen by researchers, educators, community advocates, public health/health care experts, criminologists, social workers, field-based practitioners, and victims/survivors of gun violence. The distinct and broad range of contributions in this volume critically unpacks representations, stress and trauma, resilience, advocacy/activism, policymaking, family functioning, social justice and equity, governmentality and the criminal justice system, public health/health care, and community programs/interventions. Ultimately, the work is a unique contribution to the literature in which there is a lack of wide academic consideration of gun violence and a demonstrably unsatisfactory political response stretching back decades.
Born and raised in Alberta, Canada, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich is an Ontario lawyer and legal scholar. Called to the Bar in 2003, she has had a varied legal career. After receiving her PhD in 2015, she accepted a full time faculty position at Carleton University, where she taught and researched full time for four years. She is now on the leadership team of a large, international firm, tasked with advancing diversity and inclusion across their offices. Rebecca resides in Ottawa, Ontario, with her husband and family. This is her first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781772583779 |
| ISBN 10 | 1772583774 |
| Title | Gun Violence and Gun Control: Critical Engagements |
| Author | Thomas Harrison |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Demeter Press |
| Year published | 2022-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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