Juvenile Offenders and Guns [electronic resource] : Voices Behind Gun Violence /
Marano, Diane.author.
Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, and how guns made them feel. Guns have multiple meanings and serve many purposes for these youth as they attempt to construct a capable masculinity in their worlds, growing up in homes where money is often scarce and fathers absent.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Making Meaning from Guns; 2 Consuming Violence, Constructing Masculinity; 3 Consuming Guns: Pathways to Gun Acquisition; 4 Producing Violence: "You Gotta Have a 'Don't Care' Attitude"; 5 Consumed by Violence: Negative Outcomes, Uncertain Outlooks; 6 Conclusion: "A Gun Is a Key to Anything You Wanna Do"; Appendix A: Interview Protocol; Appendix B: Demographic and Data Snapshot of Participants; Appendix C: Background Information on Individual Participants; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, and how guns made them feel. Guns have multiple meanings and serve many purposes for these youth as they attempt to construct a capable masculinity in their worlds, growing up in homes where money is often scarce and fathers absent.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Juvenile delinquents.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
African Americans.
Criminology.
Corrections.
Punishment.
Crime and Society.
Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
African American Culture.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Prison and Punishment.