Language of the gun
Subtitle: youth, crime, and public policy
By: Bernard E. Harcourt.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Catalina Mountain School.; Juvenile delinquents -- Arizona -- Tucson -- Attitudes.; Firearms -- Social aspects.; Youth and violence.; Firearms and crime.; Firearms ownership -- United States.; Gun control -- United States.; Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Catalina Mountain School, Tucson, Arizona; title: A road map of the Catalina interviews; title: Symbolic dimensions and primary meanings; title: Three clusters of primary meanings; title: Placing the clusters in practice contexts; title: The sensual, moral, and political dimensions of guns; title: Sartre and the phenomenological gaze : Théâtre Antoine, Paris, April 2, 1948; title: Lévi-Strauss and the structural map : Paris, the tropics, and the untamed mind; title: Bourdieu and practice theory : from the Kabyle House to the street corner; title: Butler and the performative : from identity and scripts to the discursive; title: Embracing the paradigm of dirty hands; title: A genealogy of the youth gun field; title: The landscape of law and public policy; title: Leaps of faith in Levitt and Bourgois; title: Making ethical choices in law and public policy.