Guns and College Homicide

The Case to Prohibit Firearms on Campus
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7609-8
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

Gun-Free Colleges 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. Gleaned from crime data submitted in compliance with the Clery Act and public reports of those crimes, Gun-Free Colleges differs from most crime studies because results are not extrapolated survey results. This book is an inventory of every documented homicide on a U.S. college or university between 2001 and 2016—a true synthesis of data of use for the general public, policy makers, law enforcement officials, and institutional administrators. The primary, data-driven conclusion of Gun-Free Colleges is that our college campuses are not ‘magnets for murderers’, they are sanctuaries from them! Murder on college campuses is 1,000-times less frequent than in the U.S. public at-large! Collegiate gun-safe policies are remarkably effective in limiting campus homicides and our society should be looking at these models to expand and enhance public safety.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boss, Stephen K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen 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.