Title: Armed and considered dangerous /
Authors: Wright, James D.; Rossi, Peter H. 1921-2006.
Publisher: AldineTransaction,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Gun control United States; Firearms and crime United States.
Abstract: This is a book about "bad guys" and their guns. But Wright and Rossi contend that for every suspected criminal who owns and abuses a firearm, a hundred or more average citizens own guns for sport, for recreation, for self protection, and for other reasons generally regarded as appropriate or legitimate. Armed and Considered Dangerous is the most ambitious survey ever undertaken of criminal acquisition, possession, and use of guns.
Contents: The Criminal Acquisition and Use of Firearms -- The Felon Survey Methods, Procedures, Descriptive Data -- Varieties of Armed Criminals: A Descriptive Typology -- Patterns of Weapons Ownership and Use: On the Circumstances of Criminal Violence -- Family, Friends, and Firearms: The Effects of Socialization on Felons' Weapons Behavior -- Motivations to go Armed -- Confronting the Armed Victim -- The Criminal as a Firearms Consumer -- Patterns of Acquisition: Where and How Felons Obtain Guns -- Patterns of Acquisitions: Gun Theft -- Handgun Controls and Weapons Choice: The Substitution Issue -- The Great American Gun War: Some Policy Implications of the Felon Study.