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

Author: Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-

Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Descriptionxiii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-269) and index.

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Catalina Mountain School.
Juvenile delinquents -- Arizona -- Tucson -- Attitudes.
Firearms -- Social aspects.
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Firearms and crime.
Firearms ownership -- United States.
Gun control -- United States.
Social sciences -- Philosophy.