Language of the gun : youth, crime, and public policy / Bernard E. Harcourt.
| Author/creator |
Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. |
| Description | xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-269) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005016383 |
| ISBN | 0226316084 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0226316092 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | HV9105.A68 H37 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |