Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter squires

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  • GENDER AND FIREARMS
    PETER SQUIRES
    Private gun ownership for self-defense remains a major personal and public issue in the United States, driven by concerns about crime, vulnerability and a range of ‘ideological’ factors, including race and gender. As media attention centres upon the extent to which women are taking up firearms, with the gun lobby and firearms manufacturers celebrating the ‘new armed woman’, and...

    $1,120.00

  • YOUNG PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY SAFETY
    LYNDA MEASOR / PETER SQUIRES
    This title was first published in 2000: Effective service provisions for young people are often said to be the key to Community Safety planning yet research frequently shows young people as over-controlled yet under-protected. Taking up this dilemma, this work draws upon a large survey of young people's attitudes towards the opportunities facing them and the communities in whic...

    $1,060.00

  • MAKING SENSE OF SECONDARY SCIENCE
    ROSALIND DRIVER / ANN SQUIRES / PETER RUSHWORTH / VALERIE WOOD-ROBINSON
    What ideas do children hold about the natural world? How do these ideas affect their learning of science? Young learners bring to the classroom knowledge and ideas about many aspects of the natural world constructed from their experiences of education and from outside school. These ideas contribute to subsequent learning, and research has shown that teaching of science is unlik...

    $1,520.00

  • GUN CRIME IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS
    PETER SQUIRES
    Every year around three-quarters of a million people die (directly or indirectly) as a result of gun violence, with most deaths occurring in the poorest, yet also most highly weaponized parts of the world. Firearm proliferation -- 875 million global firearms -- is a direct contributor to both regional conflicts and to crime. This book attempts to understand the inter-related dy...

    $1,460.00

  • ROUGHER JUSTICE
    PETER SQUIRES / DAWN STEPHEN
    Anti-social behaviour has become a major political preoccupation of government and combating it is now a major plank of criminal justice policy. Yet anti-social behaviour as a concept has been little studied, and the notion has often been accepted uncritically. This book aims to meet this need, providing a critique of the government's use of the concept of anti-social behaviour...

    $1,160.00

  • GUN CULTURE OR GUN CONTROL?
    PETER SQUIRES
    n 1996 the shooting and killing of 16 young children in a Dunblane primary school provoked wide reaching parliamentary reform to British gun laws. Within months virtually all privately owned handguns had been outlawed. Gun Culture or Gun Control? presents the first substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events in Dunblane and also examines many of the wid...

    $1,420.00