Language of the gun youth, crime, and public policy / [electronic resource] :
Bernard E. Harcourt.
- University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 278 p.) : ill.
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 -- Lévi-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.
Juvenile delinquents--Attitudes.--Arizona--Tucson Firearms--Social aspects. Youth and violence. Firearms and crime. Firearms ownership--United States. Gun control--United States. Social sciences--Philosophy. Jeunes délinquants--Attitudes.--Arizona--Tucson Armes à feu--Aspect social. Violence chez les jeunes. Armes à feu et criminalité Armes à feu--Possession--États-Unis. Armes à feu--Contrôle--États-Unis. Sciences sociales--Philosophie. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Violence in Society.