Language of the gun [electronic resource] : youth, crime, and public policy / Bernard E. Harcourt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: xiii, 278 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.6/0835 22
LOC classification:
  • HV9105.A68 H37 2006eb
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Contents:
Catalina Mountain School, Tucson, Arizona -- A road map of the Catalina interviews -- Symbolic dimensions and primary meanings -- Three clusters of primary meanings -- Placing the clusters in practice contexts -- The sensual, moral, and political dimensions of guns -- Sartre and the phenomenological gaze -- Lévi-Strauss and the structural map -- Bourdieu and practice theory -- Butler and the performative -- Embracing the paradigm of dirty hands -- A genealogy of the youth gun field -- The landscape of law and public policy -- Leaps of faith in Levitt and Bourgois -- Making ethical choices in law and public policy.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-269) and index.

Catalina Mountain School, Tucson, Arizona -- A road map of the Catalina interviews -- Symbolic dimensions and primary meanings -- Three clusters of primary meanings -- Placing the clusters in practice contexts -- The sensual, moral, and political dimensions of guns -- Sartre and the phenomenological gaze -- Lévi-Strauss and the structural map -- Bourdieu and practice theory -- Butler and the performative -- Embracing the paradigm of dirty hands -- A genealogy of the youth gun field -- The landscape of law and public policy -- Leaps of faith in Levitt and Bourgois -- Making ethical choices in law and public policy.

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