TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hurka, Steffen
AB  - While the causes of rampage violence have been analysed thoroughly in diverse academic disciplines, we hardly know anything about the factors that affect their consequences for public policy. This book addresses rampage shootings in Western Europe and their conditional impact on politicization and policy change in the area of gun control.    The author sets out to unravel the factors that facilitate or impede the access of gun control to the political agenda in the wake of rampage shootings and analyses why some political debates lead to profound shifts of the policy status quo, while others peter out without any legislative reactions. In so doing, the book not only contributes to the theoretical literature on crisis-induced policy making, but also provides a wealth of case-study evidence on rampage shootings as empirical phenomena.
DO  - 10.4324/9781315209425
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004196
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100489567
KW  - Political Science
KW  - violent crime
KW  - Dunblane
KW  - gun laws
KW  - gun control
KW  - mass shootings
KW  - rampage killing
KW  - Euskirchen
KW  - Erfurt
KW  - Jokela
KW  - Kauhajoki
KW  - firearm availability
KW  - firearms
KW  - gun culture
KW  - gun ownership
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/7513bbea-3eab-488d-857e-f00ee247b1c7/1004196.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25887
PB  - Taylor & Francis
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9781351806619
SN  - 9781315209425
SN  - 9781138630437
SN  - 9780367887421
TI  - Rampage Shootings and Gun Control : Politicization and Policy Change in Western Europe
ER  - 
