SOME SUGGESTED BACKGROUND READING ON GUN AND VIOLENCE

Bok, Sissela, Mayhem,: Violence as Public Entertainment (Reading, Ma.: Perseus Books, 1998).

Boll, Heinrich, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, or: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (New York: McGraw Hill, 1975).

Collins, Randall, Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2008).

Harcourt, Bernard E., Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy (Chicago & London: U. of Chicago Press, 2006).

Hofstadter, Richard and Michael Wallace, eds., American Violence: A Documentary History (New York: Knopf, 1970).

Jacoby, Russell, Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence from Cain and Abel to the Present (New York: Free Press, 2011).

Kennedy, David M., Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America (New York: Bloomsbury, 2011).

Kurlansky, Mark, Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea (New York: Modern Library, 2006).

Lott Jr., John R., More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1998). 

  

Minow, Martha, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998). 

Minow, Martha, Michael Ryan, & Austin Sarat, eds., Narrative, Violence, and the Law: The Essays of Robert Cover (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1992).

Pinker, Steve, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (New York: Viking, 2011). 

   

Sarat, Austin, ed., Law, Violence, and the Possibility of Justice (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2001). 

  

Tushnet, Mark V., Out of Range: Why the Constitution Can’t End the Battle Over Guns (Oxford & New York: Oxford U. Press, 2007).

Zimring, Franklin E., & Gordon Hawkins Crime is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America (New York: Oxford U. Press, 1997).