Guns, Violence, and Criminal Behavior: The Offender's Perspective

by Mark Pogrebin, N. Prabha Unnithan, Paul Stretesky

How are guns used and viewed by criminals? Where do criminals obtain guns? And how do laws make firearms more or less accessible? Confronting these contentious questions, Guns, Violence, and Criminal Behavior offers a comprehensive exploration of the social processes surrounding illegal firearm use and criminal behavior. The authors draw on in-depth interviews with felons convicted of gun-related crimes and previous quantitative studies to offer a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588266656
• ISBN13: 9781588266651
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.