Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control

Gary Kleck

Aldine de Gruyter, 1997 - Law - 450 pages

This new paperback comprehensively reviews the research evidence on the links between guns, violence, and gun control, and reports results of the author's own research as well. In Targeting Guns, Kleck follows the line of argument and careful statistical inference of his earlier prizewinning volume, Point Blank, while updating the literature reviews and statistical information, and adding two chapters.

About the author

Gary Kleck is professor of criminology and criminal justice at Florida State University. He is the author of Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control and coauthor, with Don Kates, of The Great American Gun Debate and Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control. His articles have been published in several journals, including the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems, Criminology, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Law & Society Review.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control; Social institutions and social change
• Author: Gary Kleck
• Editor: Gary Kleck
• Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter, 1997
• ISBN: 0202305694, 9780202305691
• Length: 450 pages
• Subjects: Law / General; Political Science / Law Enforcement; Social Science / General