Guns, crime, and punishment in America / edited by Bernard E. Harcourt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction / Bernard E. Harcourt—pt. I. The great American gun debates. A. Perspectives. Continuity and change in the American gun debate / Franklin E. Zimring—The tyranny of econometrics and the circumspection of liberalism : two problems with the gun debate / Dan M. Kahan—Equalizers: the Cult of the Colt in American culture / Richard Slotkin—"Hell no, you can't jack that fool. He stays trapped. He's strapped all the time" : talking about guns at an all-boy correctional facility in Tucson, Arizona / Bernard E. Harcourt—B. The Second Amendment. The historians counterattack : some reflections on the historiography of the Second Amendment / Sanford Levinson—What does the Second Amendment restrict? A collective-rights analysis / Carl Bogus—Moral principle and the Second Amendment / Christopher L. Eisgruber—pt. II. Policy interventions in the gun arena. A. Gun tracing. New law enforcement uses for comprehensive firearms trace data / Philip J. Cook, Anthony A. Braga—B. Gun-oriented policing and community interventions. Policing guns : order maintenance and crime control in New York / Jeffrey A. Fagan, Garth Davies—Should we have faith in the churches? The Ten-Point Coalition's effect on Boston's youth violence / Jenny Berrien, Christopher Winship—Guns, drugs, and profiling : ways to target guns and minimize racial profiling / Jerome H. Skolnick, Abigail Caplovitz—C. The Brady approach. The effects of the Brady Act on gun violence / Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig—Gun shows and gun control / James B. Jacobs—D. Federal enforcement of gun laws. Profile exile and the allocation of federal law enforcement authority / Daniel C. Richman—The unintended consequences of enhancing gun penalties / Sara Sun Beale—E. Civil litigation against gun manufacturers. The cities take the initiative : public nuisance lawsuits against handgun manufacturers / David Kairys—Tort law and criminal behavior (guns) / Mark Geistfeld—Guns and burglars / David B. Kopel.