Juvenile Offenders and Guns: Voices Behind Gun Violence

by Diane Marano

Book Overview

Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, how guns made them feel, and how they felt about the violence in which they participated as well as the violence to which they were exposed as victims and witnesses. Through their narratives, patterns emerge of boys attempting to become men in homes headed by mothers who struggled financially, the multiple attractions of the street...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137520132
• ISBN13: 9781137520135
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"