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Destroying surplus weapons : an assessment of experience in South Africa and Lesotho
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ISBN: 1417548010 9781417548019 9290451513 9789290451518 Year: 2003 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

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Small Arms Survey 2013 : everyday dangers.
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ISBN: 1107425506 1107323614 1107041961 1107672449 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Small Arms Survey 2013 explores the many faces of armed violence outside the context of armed conflict. Chapters on the use of firearms in intimate partner violence, the evolution of gangs in Nicaragua, Italian organised crime groups, and trends in armed violence in South Africa describe the dynamics and effects of gun violence in the home and on the street. Many of the chapters in the 'weapons and markets' section zero in on the use of specific weapons by particular armed actors, such as drug-trafficking organisations and insurgents. These include chapters on the prices of arms and ammunition at illicit markets in Lebanon, Pakistan and Somalia; illicit weapons recovered in Mexico and the Philippines; and the impacts of improvised explosive devices on civilians. Chapters on the Second Review Conference of the UN Programme of Action and the industrial demilitarisation industry round out the 2013 volume.


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Up in Arms : Gun Imaginaries in Texas
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ISBN: 9004514678 900451466X Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV,

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Up in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people’s lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone Star State exemplifies how various groups of people at different historical moments make sense of gun culture in light of legislation, political agendas, and community building. Beyond gun rights, restrictions, or the actual functions of firearms, the book demonstrates how the gun question itself becomes loaded with symbolic firepower, making or breaking assumptions about identities, behavior, and belief systems. Contributors include: Benita Heiskanen, Albion M. Butters, Pekka M. Kolehmainen, Laura Hernández-Ehrisman, Lotta Kähkönen, Mila Seppälä, and Juha A. Vuori.


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Small arms and light weapons : selected United Nations documents
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ISBN: 9789211422641 9781435663961 1435663969 9211422647 Year: 2008 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] United Nations


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Rampage shootings and gun control : politicization and policy change in Western Europe
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ISBN: 1138630438 1351806610 131520942X 1351806602 Year: 2017 Publisher: London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge,

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While the causes of rampage violence have been analysed thoroughly in diverse academic disciplines, we hardly know anything about the factors that affect their consequences for public policy. This book addresses rampage shootings in Western Europe and their conditional impact on politicization and policy change in the area of gun control. The author sets out to unravel the factors that facilitate or impede the access of gun control to the political agenda in the wake of rampage shootings and analyses why some political debates lead to profound shifts of the policy status quo, while others peter out without any legislative reactions. In so doing, the book not only contributes to the theoretical literature on crisis-induced policy making, but also provides a wealth of case-study evidence on rampage shootings as empirical phenomena. While the causes of rampage violence have been analysed thoroughly in diverse academic disciplines, we hardly know anything about the factors that affect their consequences for public policy. This book addresses rampage shootings in Western Europe and their conditional impact on politicization and policy change in the area of gun control. The author sets out to unravel the factors that facilitate or impede the access of gun control to the political agenda in the wake of rampage shootings and analyses why some political debates lead to profound shifts of the policy status quo, while others peter out without any legislative reactions. In so doing, the book not only contributes to the theoretical literature on crisis-induced policy making, but also provides a wealth of case-study evidence on rampage shootings as empirical phenomena. In particular, the extent to which gun control gets politicized as a policy failure can either result from a bottom-up process (event severity and media pressure) or from a top-down logic (issue ownership and the electoral cycle). Including 12 case studies on the rampage shootings which have triggered a debate over the appropriateness of the affected countries' gun policies, it illustrates that the way political processes unfold after rampage shootings depends strongly on specific causal configurations and draws comparisons between the cases covered in the book and the way rampage shootings are typically dealt with in the United States. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of public policy, policy analysis, European Politics and more broadly to comparative politics, criminology, psychology, and sociology. --


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A guide to the destruction of small arms and light weapons : the approach of the South African National Defence Force
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ISBN: 1417546646 9781417546640 Year: 2004 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] UNIDIR


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Lutte contre la prolifération des armes légères en Afrique de lʹOuest : manuel de formation des forces armées et de sécurité
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ISBN: 1417548002 9781417548002 Year: 2003

Exchanging weapons for development in Mali : weapon collection programmes assessed by local people
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ISBN: 1417557303 9781417557301 9290451637 9789290451631 Year: 2004 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research


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Strategies for disrupting illegal firearm markets : a case study of Los Angeles
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ISBN: 1282282611 9786612282614 0833044907 0833044788 9780833044907 9780833044785 Year: 2008 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Safety and Justice,

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Could a data-driven, problem-solving approach yield new interventions to disrupt local, illegal gun markets serving criminals, gang members, and juveniles in Los Angeles? Law enforcement can analyze patterns in crime-gun data to trace illicit firearm acqu


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Domestic Gun Control and International Small Arms Control in Africa
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ISBN: 9783031077388 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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This book, based on field research in the West African country of The Gambia, explores how domestic gun control is shaped by international efforts and how local actors interact with international organizations or opt not to do so. The book also shows how the question of who can have what kind of gun under what circumstances is an intrinsic question to modern societies across the world, but it is seldom one that is addressed in sub-Saharan Africa except in cases of post-conflict countries. Small arms control and gun control are often treated as separate efforts, with the former the domain of international actors such as the United Nations and the latter being of concern to the domestic politics of countries such as the United States. By focusing on a country that has never seen the outbreak of a civil war, the book is able to disentangle the complex roots of gun control in Africa, its origins in colonial era legislation, its reverberations across social life, and how it shapes contemporary understandings of groups ranging for security guards to hunters. Niklas Hultin is Assistant Professor in the Global Affairs Program at George Mason University, USA.

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