Gun Present (eBook)

Inside a Southern District Attorney's Battle against Gun Violence

Susan Dewey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
252 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39369-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors—an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney—present a deeply human portrait of prosecutors’ work. Built on an immersive, community-based participatory partnership between researchers and criminal justice professionals, Gun Present chronicles how a justice assemblage comprising institutional structures and practices, relationships and roles, and individual moral and emotional worlds informs the day-to-day administration of justice. Weaving together in-depth interviews, quantitative analysis of more than a thousand criminal cases, analysis of trial transcripts, and over a year of ethnographic observations, Gun Present provides a model for scholar-practitioner collaborations.

Inhalt

Contents

Acknowledgments 

INTRODUCTION 

1. GUN PRESENT 
2. INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES AND PRACTICES 
3. RELATIONSHIPS AND ROLES 
4. MORAL AND EMOTIONAL WORLDS 

CONSLUSION: CRIMINOLOGY'S PLACE IN THE FUTURE OF THE JUSTICE ASSEMBLAGE 

Works Cited 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: courtroom working • criminal cases • ethics • ethnography • insider look at district attorney office • Law and society • legal documentation • Lethal Weapon • people legal system • Prosecution • rituals of documentation • Sentencing • Transcripts • Tuscaloosa Alabama
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39369-4 / 0520393694
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39369-1 / 9780520393691