Urban Gun Violence
Self-Help Organizations as Healing Sites, Catalysts for Change, and Collaborative Partners
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 March 2021
- ISBN 9780197515518
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages404 pages
- Size 157x236x30 mm
- Weight 739 g
- Language English 88
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Short description:
Urban Gun Violence explains the abuse of automatic weapons and identifies way to mitigate this abuse.
MoreLong description:
Gun violence occurs in urban areas more than it does anywhere else, and youth of color in these areas are disproportionately impacted in the United States. How can we approach this? What can we do to stop this from happening in the first place? In addition to trying to bolster the barriers one must cross to acquire a gun, we must also focus on the communities struggling with this abuse. In this book, Melvin Delgado approaches this nationwide issue with a specific focus on the victims: detailing the primary issues surrounding gun violence, what social workers can do about it, and why it is critical for those in the field to get involved.
Delgado identifies the current strategies used by social workers, providing professionals with the tools necessary to identify key problems before they escalate enough to lead to violence. He also discusses ways to reshape the education social workers receive to make sure they keep these racial injustices in mind in their approaches. Self-help organizations can intervene and potentially reduce the number of gun-related deaths that occur in cities nationwide, but we too often do not look to them after a shooting. Urban Gun Violence presents opportunities for improvement based on the work done by urban self-help organizations in the past. Building off of these organizations from across the US--from Louis D. Brown Peace Institution in Boston to the Community Justice Reform Coalition in San Francisco--Delgado illustrates how social workers can advocate for minority communities impacted by this lethal weapon.
With chapters spanning everything from how people obtain guns--legally and illegally--to lessons from the field, the book outlines the path toward successful intervention.
This book thoroughly reviews the abundant and depressing statistical evidence of the immense magnitude of the urban gun violence problem and its connections to homicides, accidental shootings, and suicides, sidestepping the problem of guns and domestic violence. Delgado also employs his immense knowledge of and expertise with self-help groups to illustrate many ways in which communities can marshal their human resources to mitigate urban gun violence. This clearly written book deserves a wide readership.
Table of Contents:
Dedication & Acknowledgments
Preface
Section 1: Urban Gun Violence
Chapter 1: Overview and Context
Chapter 2: An Overview of Urban Self Help Organizations
Chapter 3: Three Case Illustrations (Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C.)
Section 2: Multifaceted Dimensions
Chapter 4: Understanding the Crisis of Urban Gun Violence
Chapter 5: Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives
Chapter 6: Approaches to Preventing and Intervening with Gun Violence
Chapter 7: Cross-Cutting Themes
Chapter 8: Recommendations for Education, Research, and Community Practice
Epilogue
References
Index
