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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Gun ownership"”.
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Gun Ownership Trends In The United States, 1973-2000
In the last half century, gun ownership has been one of the most hotly debated topics in the United States. The right to bear arms was written into the U. S. Constitution and into the hearts and minds of its citizens. During the last half century, however, numerous gun control laws have been …
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The Prism of Violence: Private Gun Ownership in Modern China, 1860-1949
<p>This dissertation examines private gun ownership and its sociocultural and political implications in modern China from 1860 to 1949, a period characterized by foreign invasion, constant military conflicts, and political decentralization. During this period, foreign guns, along with their Chinese …
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Homicide, Capital Punishment, and Gun Ownership: An Aggregate Analysis of u.s. Homicide Trends From 1947 to 1976
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Fear as a predictor of firearm ownership and concealed weapons permits in Clark County, Nevada
… relationships, the relationship between fear and gun possession [defined in terms of firearms registration] and the relationship between fear and the issuance of concealed weapons permits, were posited. Data for the number of registered firearms and issued concealed weapons permits were obtained …
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Police Officers Talking About Gun Control: A Case Study of a Rural Sheriff's Department
… how members of a rural police department view gun control, and the degree to which they think that gun control laws protect police officers and the public. Drawing on conclusions from interviews with twenty police officers within one local sheriff's department, three themes emerged: 1) the …
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A safer and more civilized country : gun control, public health, and the state monopoly on force
… and historical aspects of the idea that gun ownership is a "public health problem". The strategy is to reinterpret modern public health in terms of its relationship to the modern State. Public health is located in a milieu of beliefs and values associated with discourses on "civilization" …
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Change in Family Structure and Rates of Violent Juvenile Delinquency
… rate, incarceration rates, drug rates, rates of gun ownership, police employment, percent of those with weekly religious service attendance, percent of persons who have a "great deal" of confidence in the Executive branch of the United States, and percent of people who can trust others. I examine …
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Emergency Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes and Preventive Practices Regarding Firearms and Firearm Injury Prevention for Children
… survey on practices regarding childhood gun safety. Seventy-one percent of respondents agreed that firearm violence is a problem in the community where they practice and almost half (47.7%) of the nurses believed that firearm injury prevention guidance would help reduce the risk of …
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Measuring the Impact of Gun Theft on City-Level Gun Crime Rates
<p>The history of gun culture in the United States is complicated. Guns are an integral part of American history and attempts to control them through policy are often contentious. However, research suggests that gun crime occurs in areas where there are more guns (Braga, 2017; Braga & Pierce, 2005; …
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From Targets to Agents: Women's Perceptions of Their Vulnerability and the Strategies They Use to Resist
… hand, tailors programs to instruct women to use guns for self-defense leaving them as the only national organization promoting women’s right to defend themselves (Carlson, 2014). This project interrogates how women think about their vulnerability and the strategies they employ to defend …
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Intimate femicide-suicide in South Africa : the epidemiology of male suicide following the killing of an intimate partner
… or white collar worker; and owing a legal gun. The study findings have shown that South Africa has the highest reported rate for intimate femicide-suicide in the world. This poses an important public health problem. Unraveling the factors associated with perpetrator suicide after killing an …
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An examination of media ethics and journalism pedagogy for news communicators: Theory and practice implications of a framing analysis of The Mercury (Tasmania)’s coverage of the Dunblane (March 1996) and Port Arthur (April 1996) mass shootings
… within journalism studies. As Australia’s gun ownership levels now exceed those that existed prior to the Port Arthur killings in 1996 (Alpers, 2017), the need for continued vigilance is apparent. This thesis also investigates the sole historical precedent for random mass murder—the amok …