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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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The Politicization of Safety : Critical Perspectives on Domestic Violence Responses
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ISBN: 1479888737 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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"Domestic violence is commonly assumed to be a bipartisan, nonpolitical issue, with politicians of all stripes claiming to work to end family violence. Nevertheless, the Violence Against Women Act expired for over 500 days between 2012 and 2013 due to differences between the U.S. Senate and House, demonstrating that legal protections for domestic abuse survivors are both highly political and highly vulnerable. Racial and gender politics, the move toward criminalization, reproductive justice concerns, gun control debates, and political interests are increasingly shaping responses to domestic violence, demonstrating the need for greater consideration of the interplay of politics, domestic violence, and how the law works in people's lives. [This book provides an] historical perspective on domestic violence responses in the United States. It grapples with the ways in which child welfare systems and civil and criminal justice responses intersect, and considers the different, overlapping ways in which survivors of domestic abuse are forced to cope with institutionalized discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status. The book also examines movement politics and the feminist movement with respect to domestic violence policies. The tensions discussed in this book, similar to those involved in the #metoo movement, include questions of accountability, reckoning, redemption, healing, and forgiveness. What is the future of feminism and the movements against gender-based violence and domestic violence? Readers are invited to question assumptions about how society and the legal system respond to intimate partner violence and to challenge the domestic violence field to move beyond old paradigms and contend with larger justice issues."--(4e de couverture).

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Intimate partner violence --- Family violence --- Prevention. --- Law and legislation --- United States. --- Battering Court Syndrome. --- National Rifle Association (NRA). --- Title IX. --- Violence Against Women Act. --- abuse and neglect. --- access to justice. --- alternative forms of justice. --- autonomy. --- background checks. --- battered women’s movement. --- battered women’s syndrome. --- campus climate. --- campus sexual assault. --- carceral feminism. --- child abuse. --- congressional intent. --- corporal punishment. --- criminal justice. --- criminalization. --- crossover youth. --- cycle of abuse. --- discrimination. --- domestic violence. --- empowerment. --- failure to protect. --- family court. --- family justice. --- felony murder. --- firearms. --- gender bias. --- gender politics. --- gender-based violence. --- gun control. --- gun laws. --- gun violence. --- guns in the home. --- harm reduction. --- homicide-suicide. --- immigration status. --- intersectionality. --- intimate fatalities. --- intimate partner violence. --- intrafamilial violence. --- juvenile justice. --- law enforcement. --- legal consciousness. --- masculinities. --- mass shootings. --- mens rea. --- militarization. --- multi-system involvement. --- multidimensional empowerment. --- national action plan. --- national plan of action. --- parental discipline privilege. --- police discretion. --- police-perpetrated domestic abuse. --- prison abolition. --- prosecutorial abuse. --- protection orders. --- punishment. --- restorative justice. --- sexual assault. --- situational couple violence. --- social control. --- social movements. --- specialized courts. --- specialized justice. --- survivor. --- teen dating violence. --- victims’ rights. --- violence against women. --- women’s human rights.

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