Joyce Justin - Gunslinging Justice The American Culture Of Gun Violence In Westerns And The Law - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explores how the Western genre has imagined new justifications for gun violence which American law seems ever - eager to adopt.
Title: Gunslinging Justice The American Culture Of Gun Violence In Westerns And The Law
Author(s): Joyce Justin
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Barcode: 9781526147981
Pages: 264 Pages, 26 Black & White Illustrations
Publication Date: 4/30/2020
Category: Criminal Justice Law