Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Forensic psychology:
- Part I Psychological underpinnings
- Part II Assessments
- Part III Interventions
- Part IV Psychology and criminal behaviour
- Part V Psychology and civil law
- Part VI Special topics
- 6.1 Arson
- 6.2 Bullying among prisoners
- 6.3 Child soldiers
- 6.4 Crime prevention
- 6.5 Guns and shootings
- 6.6 Hostage taking:
- 6.7 Hypnosis
- 6.8 Jury decision making
- 6.9 Malingering:
- 6.10 Munchausen by proxy
- 6.11 Occupational culture
- 6.12 Occupational stress in police and prison staff
- 6.13 Sexual harassment
- 6.14 Undercover policing and psychological stress
- 6.15 Victimology
- 6.16 Young children presenting with sudden infant death syndrome or apparent life-threatening events
- Part VII Professional practice
- Part VIII Research practice
- Author index
- Subject index
6.5 - Guns and shootings
from Part VI - Special topics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Forensic psychology:
- Part I Psychological underpinnings
- Part II Assessments
- Part III Interventions
- Part IV Psychology and criminal behaviour
- Part V Psychology and civil law
- Part VI Special topics
- 6.1 Arson
- 6.2 Bullying among prisoners
- 6.3 Child soldiers
- 6.4 Crime prevention
- 6.5 Guns and shootings
- 6.6 Hostage taking:
- 6.7 Hypnosis
- 6.8 Jury decision making
- 6.9 Malingering:
- 6.10 Munchausen by proxy
- 6.11 Occupational culture
- 6.12 Occupational stress in police and prison staff
- 6.13 Sexual harassment
- 6.14 Undercover policing and psychological stress
- 6.15 Victimology
- 6.16 Young children presenting with sudden infant death syndrome or apparent life-threatening events
- Part VII Professional practice
- Part VIII Research practice
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
Issues concerning firearms are very different in the UK and America; American citizens keep guns in the home for self-defence purposes. While firearms are kept under tight restriction and control of the police in England and Wales, the United States (US) continues to allow greater freedom to law-abiding citizens to carry weapons and keep guns in the home. Greater gun availability results in a greater risk of their use in suicides. While guns also play a significant role in crime in the US, the overall level of gun crime in England and Wales is very low, 0.3% of all crime recorded by the police. One way in which authorities in both Britain and America have attempted to control gun availability has been to address licensing laws. Most perpetrators of spree shootings kill themselves at the scene of the crime; therefore evidence can only be gathered afterwards from eyewitnesses.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology , pp. 652 - 659Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010