Gun Present: Inside a Southern District Attorney's Battle against Gun Violence

By: Susan Dewey

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Synopsis: Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors—an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney—present a deeply human portrait of prosecutors’ work. Built on an immersive, community-based participatory partnership between researchers and criminal justice professionals, Gun Present chronicles how a justice assemblage comprising institutional structures and practices, relationships and roles, and individual moral and emotional worlds informs the day-to-day administration of justice. Weaving together in-depth interviews, quantitative analysis of more than a thousand criminal cases, analysis of trial transcripts, and over a year of ethnographic observations, Gun Present provides a model for scholar-practitioner collaborations.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 252 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780520393691
Related ISBNs:: 9780520393677, 9780520393684
Publisher:: University of California Press
Date of Addition:: 05/01/24
Copyrighted By:: Susan Dewey, Brittany VandeBerg, and Hays Webb
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Education, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.