December 21, 2012
I still haven?t found much of a voice or aptitude for addressing current events in a timeframe that seems relevant, so like the Trayvon Martin incident, I feel like this blog post is a bit ?late to the game? and with less than I?d like to offer. This is of course made more difficult by the fact that research on gun violence has been blocked in the U.S. along multiple lines for some time.
Despite these impediments, there have been several serious attempts to gain an understanding of the role of guns and gun accessibility on mass shootings:
- In the ?perfect timing? category, the journal Crime, Media & Society?s December 3012 issue features an article on school shootings in the U.S., dissecting the claim that they can be attributed to representations of violence in the media. The author concludes that ?The risk approach allows us to understand school shooting events as the end result of a series of interrelated social, cultural, and political processes. The point at which these factors intersect tends to produce the conditions under which school shooters may emerge.?
- Only slightly less recent, by academic standards (2009), is a special issue of the journal Criminology and Criminal Justice on Guns, Violence and Social Ord
- Conversely, Policing has a special issue on ?The Use of Force? focusing on police use of firearms.
- The Monkey Cage blog has a useful breakdown on the Graduate School of International Studies? report known as the Small Arms Survey. Highlights include that, according to their survey, only 3% of the world?d small arms are in the hands of law enforcement. How?s that for the monopoly on the use of force?
In addition to these, several anthropologists have weighed in on the events:
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