Language of the Gun Youth, Crime, and Public Policy

Bernard E. Harcourt, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Director Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought Bernard E Harcourt — 2006

In this book, the author recounts in-depth interviews with youths detained at an all-male correctional facility, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in a broader attempt to understand some of the assumptions implicit in current handgun policies.