Guns and College Homicide

The Case to Prohibit Firearms on Campus

Stephen K. Boss (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

260 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7609-8 (ISBN)

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Describes the profile of collegiate homicide in the United States. Parents who want to know whether their child will be safe on campus will want to read this book. The book provides them with tools to examine the crime records of colleges they may be considering for their daughters and sons.

At a time when mass shootings in schools and other public spaces have become commonplace, it might seem surprising that American college campuses are not magnets for murderers but sanctuaries from them. Because of remarkably effective gun-safe policies, deaths by firearms on college campuses are 1,000 times less frequent than in the U.S. public at large.

Drawing on crime data submitted in compliance with the Clery Act and public reports of those crimes, this study inventories every documented homicide at a U.S. college or university between 2001 and 2016, making a compelling argument for using gun-safe campuses as guides for broader public safety.

Stephen K. Boss is a professor of environmental dynamics and sustainability at the University of Arkansas. He has been involved in the national gun violence prevention movement for 10 years. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. My Journey to Sanctuary

2. A Grand Social Experiment

3. Gun Violence in the United States

4. The Clery Act

5. The Profile of Collegiate Homicide in the United States

6. Historically Black Colleges and Universities Matter

7. The Guns of August

8. Speak Truth to Power

Appendix (by State)

Table 1. Annual statistics

Table 2. Source information

Table 3. Mode of homicide

Table 4. Victims

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4766-7609-7 / 1476676097
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7609-8 / 9781476676098
Zustand	Neuware