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Handbook on Gun Violence and Society

Author: Peter Squires
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035325191
Published In: April 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This timely Handbook presents new insights and diverse perspectives on gun violence and the consequences of increased indiscriminate civilian firearm ownership. Expert contributors challenge the positivist and partisan paradigm of gun violence and firearm supply, arguing for drastically revised policy approaches.

Using analyses from across the social sciences including race and gender studies, victimology, psychology and anthropology, chapters interrogate a wide range of global, historical and regional dilemmas surrounding gun violence and society. Contributors examine the rapid development of social and technological innovation in gun production, supply and criminal misuse. Bringing together new empirical research with fresh academic insights, this Handbook sheds light on novel ways of understanding, investigating and preventing the gun violence that claims over 600 lives each day.

This Handbook is an insightful read for scholars and students in criminology, sociology, social policy and law, especially gun violence researchers. It is also a valuable resource for professionals and practitioners involved in gun violence and arms control, including activists, lobbyists, police and security personnel.

Introduction: gun proliferation, society, firearm-enabled violence and key debates 1

Peter Squires

PART I SUPPLY-SIDE ISSUES

The role of criminal armourers in illegal firearm supply: a UK perspective 33

Helen Williamson

An evaluation of gun violence, gun homicides and firearm supply in Tobago, the ‘Capital of Paradise’ 53

Wendell C. Wallace

The impact of illicit firearms on the convergence of crime and armed violence in post-conflict states 69

Georgina Sinclair, Rohan Burdett and Martin Verrier

PART II COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

Comparative perspectives on firearm death and injury: the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia 92

Wendy Cukier and Vivien Leung

The ambivalence asymmetry: comparing the heterogeneity of gun attitudes between gun control supporters and opponents 117

Harel Shapira, Ken-Hou Lin, Patrick Sheehan and Chen Liang

A comparative analysis of US and Central and Eastern European gun regulations 134

Alexei Anisin

Authorizing murder: understanding the effects of Brazil’s gun control reforms on criminal groups and far-right militants 147

Gabriel Funari and Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti

PART III GENDER MATTERS

Purchasing power? Women, violence and the US firearms market 164

Peter Squires

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Man with a gun: masculinities, firearms and violence in global context 183

Tatiana Moura and Gary Barker

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Firearms and violence against women and girls 197

Sarah Watson

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Protecting the narrative: the NRA’s strategic inclusion of Black women in gun culture 213

Mary Kettering

PART IV LIVING WITH GUNS AND VIOLENCE

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This is (not) a drill: active shooter classroom drills and affect theory 230

Charles Fruehling Springwood and Irving Epstein

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Safe spaces or armed assemblies? How gun shows operate in the state of Indiana 245

Callie Cleckner

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Unsafe, uncertain or uneasy? Complex correlates of firearm attitudes and behaviours in the United States 258

Tara D. Warner

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Mass shootings in the United States 278

Frederic Lemieux

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Caged birds and wandering stars: a medical anthropology of gunshot wounds, retained bullets, and paralysis 291

Jason Pribilsky

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Covering massacres, the fog of war and Nazi zombies: a novel methodological approach to reporting gun violence 307

Iain Overton

PART V ENFORCEMENT QUESTIONS AND GUN CONTROLS

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Firearms marketing, police carbines, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 325

R. Blake Brown

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Policing firearms: the evolution of tactics and strategies 341

Simon Sneddon and Simon Feist

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Responding to the threat of ‘ghost guns’ and illicit firearm and ammunition manufacture 362

Rachel S. Bolton-King and Helen Poole

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Exploring new methodologies to improve the understanding of gun violence: the case of artificial intelligence – the Gunviolence.eu Incident

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Astrid de Schutter, Diederik Cops, Tom De Smedt and Nils Duquet

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