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Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America is a book about gun violence in the United States by Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck. The book was published by Aldine de Gruyter in 1991, and received the 1993 Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology .
Rising Up and Rising Down is a wide-ranging study of the justifications for and consequences of violence. The seven-volume edition is divided between essays analyzing the actions and motivations of historical figures (including Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Robespierre, Cortés, Trotsky, Stalin, and Gandhi) and pieces of journalism and reportage that act as contemporary "case studies ...
Learn about the problem of gun violence in America through these graphs and charts. The post Gun Violence Statistics in the United States: 12 Charts You Need to See appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Detroit has long ranked as of America’s most crime-ridden big cities and, based on the volume of violence, it still is. But nonfatal shootings fell by 18% last year, according to the city, and ...
The original Violence Commission predicted that we would have a city of the future in which the middle class would escape to the suburbs, drive to work in sanitized quarters, and work in buildings protected by high tech. That city of the future has come true. An editorial in the Detroit Free Press said that city was Detroit.
Increases in gun violence have shown that no city, town or rural route is immune to the potential for traumatic shootings. On Dec. 6, a gunman opened fire at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas ...
Kleck has done numerous studies of the effects of guns on death and injury in crimes, [3] on suicides, [4] and gun accidents, [5] the impact of gun control laws on rates of violence, [6] [7] the frequency and effectiveness of defensive gun use by crime victims, [8] [9] patterns of gun ownership, [10] why people support gun control, [11] and "the myth of big-time gun trafficking."