bokomslag Policing the Second Amendment
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Policing the Second Amendment

Jennifer Carlson

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  • 296 sidor
  • 2022
An urgent look at the relationship between guns, the police, and race The United States is steeped in guns, gun violenceand gun debates. As arguments rage on, one issue has largely been overlookedAmericans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves disproportionately support gun rights over gun control. Yet who do the police believe should get gun access? When do they pursue aggressive enforcement of gun laws? And what part does race play in all of this? Policing the Second Amendment unravels the complex relationship between the police, gun violence, and race. Rethinking the terms of the gun debate, Jennifer Carlson shows how the politics of guns cannot be understoodor changedwithout considering how the racial politics of crime affect police attitudes about guns. Drawing on local and national newspapers, interviews with close to eighty police chiefs, and a rare look at gun licensing processes, Carlson explores the ways police talk about guns, and how firearms are regulated in different parts of the country. Examining how organizations such as the National Rifle Association have influenced police perspectives, she describes a troubling paradox of guns todaywhile color-blind laws grant civilians unprecedented rights to own, carry, and use guns, people of color face an all-too-visible system of gun criminalization. This racialized frameworkundergirding who is a good guy with a gun versus a bad guy with a guninforms and justifies how police understand and pursue public safety. Policing the Second Amendment demonstrates that the terrain of gun politics must be reevaluated if there is to be any hope of mitigating further tragedies.
  • Författare: Jennifer Carlson
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780691212814
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 296
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-06-21
  • Förlag: Princeton University Press