Policing the Second Amendment (eBook)

Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race

Jennifer Carlson (Autor)

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2020
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20586-1 (ISBN)

Infos

An urgent look at the relationship between guns, the police, and raceThe United States is steeped in guns, gun violenceand gun debates. As arguments rage on, one issue has largely been overlookedAmericans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves disproportionately support gun rights over gun control. Yet who do the police believe should get gun access? When do they pursue aggressive enforcement of gun laws? And what part does race play in all of this? Policing the Second Amendment unravels the complex relationship between the police, gun violence, and race. Rethinking the terms of the gun debate, Jennifer Carlson shows how the politics of guns cannot be understoodor changedwithout considering how the racial politics of crime affect police attitudes about guns.Drawing on local and national newspapers, interviews with close to eighty police chiefs, and a rare look at gun licensing processes, Carlson explores the ways police talk about guns, and how firearms are regulated in different parts of the country. Examining how organizations such as the National Rifle Association have influenced police perspectives, she describes a troubling paradox of guns todaywhile color-blind laws grant civilians unprecedented rights to own, carry, and use guns, people of color face an all-too-visible system of gun criminalization. This racialized frameworkundergirding who is ';a good guy with a gun' versus ';a bad guy with a gun'informs and justifies how police understand and pursue public safety.Policing the Second Amendment demonstrates that the terrain of gun politics must be reevaluated if there is to be any hope of mitigating further tragedies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 6 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: active shooter • active shootings • Act of Violence • Advocacy • African Americans • Alex Vitale • Alton Sterling • Ambivalence • American Frontier • americans • Ammunition • Arizona • Arizona Department of Public Safety • attempt • axis of impunity • background check • Bill Clinton • Bill Moyers • Black Americans • black criminality • #blacklivesmatter • Black lives matter • BlackLivesMatter • black people • Brad Garafola • Brent Thompson • Carjacking • Chicago Police Department • Chief of Police • City Manager • Columbine High School massacre • Combatant • Community Policing • concealed carry • Crime • Crime Control • Crime Fighting • crime prevention • criminalization • criminal justice • Criminal Justice Reform • Criminal Record • Criminal stereotype of African Americans • Criminology • cultural theory of risk • Cynicism (contemporary) • Decriminalization • Demonstration (protest) • Department of Public Safety • Deputy commissioner • Discretion • Domestic violence • Down, Out, and Under Arrest • Dying of Whiteness • End of Policing • ethnography • Extremism • federal law • felony • Felony murder rule • firearm • Firearm (tool) • First Responder • Forrest Stuart • Fraternal Order of Police • frontline work • Gabrielle Giffords • Gavin Eugene Long • George Zimmerman • Government • gun bans • Gun Control • gun culture • gun law • gun lax • gun militarism • gun policy • gun politics • Gun politics in the United States • gun populism • Gunpower • gun restrictive • Gun Rights • gun talk • Gun Violence • Gun violence in the United States • Gun Violence Restraining Order Act • handcuffs • handgun • Handguns • harassment • history of policing • homicide • human subject research • Ibram X. Kendi • Ideology • Illegal Immigration • Implicit Bias • impunity • ingredient • Instead of Warriors • Institutional Racism • International Association of Chiefs of Police • Interview • Jonathan Metzl • Jurisdiction • Justifiable homicide • justifiable homocide • Law • Law and order (politics) • Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence • Law enforcement • law enforcement agency • Law enforcement in the United States • Law Enforcement Officer • lawyer • Legislation • Legislator • license • licensee • local police • Lorne Ahrens • mandatory sentencing • Masculinity • Mass shooting • mass shootings • Matthew Gerald • Micah Xavier Johnson • Michael Krol • michael smith • Michigan • Militarism • misdemeanor • Montrell Jackson • Moral Economy • Moral Panic • Moral turpitude • Mother Jones (magazine) • Ms. • My Father • National Rifle Association • Necessity • newspaper • Nuclear family • Observation • Officer (armed forces) • Officer-Involved Shooting • open carry • Ownership • Patricio Zamarippa • Patrick Blanchfield • Pew Research Center • Philando Castile • pistol licenses • pistol licensing boards • plaintiff • Police • police authority • police chiefs • policed society • police militarism • Police Officer • police populism • Police power (United States constitutional law) • police violence • policing • Political Campaign • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Populism • presumption • Prison • Probation • proclamation • Prosecutor • Protest • Public Expenditure • public law enforcement • Public Policy • public safety • pundit • punishment • Racialization • Racial politics • racial profiling • Racism • Red Flag laws • Right to keep and bear arms • Road Rage • Robbery • Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) • school resource officer • school shooting • search warrant • Second Amendment • Second Amendment to the United States Constitution • security guard • Self-Defense • Self-defense (Sweden) • Sentencing Guidelines • Slave patrol • Slavery • Soapbox • Sociology • Sociology of Law • sovereign citizen movement • stand-your-ground law • State law (United States) • State of affairs (sociology) • street crime • structural racism • suburb • superpredator • Surveillance • Suspect • The Crime Scene • The Other Hand • The Protest Psychosis • tough on crime • traffic stop • Traffic ticket • Trayvon Martin • United States Border Patrol • United States constitution • United States Department of Justice • Universal background check • urban gun violence • urban planning • Violence • Violent crime • Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act • Walter E. Williams • war on crime • War on Drugs • War on Guns • Weapon • white supremacy • Work Ethic • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20586-8 / 0691205868
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20586-1 / 9780691205861