Gun Violence: The Real Costs de Philip J. Cook

Gun Violence: The Real Costs: Studies in Crime and Public Policy

Autor Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2002

Aplicabilitatea practică a volumului Gun Violence rezidă în capacitatea sa de a transforma o dezbatere politică simbolică într-o analiză economică riguroasă, esențială pentru politicile publice contemporane. Considerăm că forța acestui studiu, publicat de Oxford University Press, constă în extinderea perspectivei dincolo de indicatorii clasici, precum cheltuielile medicale sau pierderea productivității. Philip J. Cook și Jens Ludwig demonstrează cum amenințarea constantă a violenței modelează comportamente cotidiene, de la achiziția de rucsacuri transparente pentru elevi, până la finanțarea centrelor de traumă urbană. Subliniem faptul că autorii nu se limitează la inventarierea daunelor, ci propun un cadru metodologic pentru a evalua costurile subiective ale trăitului într-o societate marcată de riscul de a fi împușcat.

Această lucrare ocupă un loc central în opera lui Philip J. Cook, continuând temele explorate în Policing Gun Violence despre rolul forțelor de ordine și livrabilitatea orașelor americane. Dacă în The Winner-Take-All Society autorul analiza inegalitățile economice extreme, în Gun Violence el se concentrează pe povara financiară colectivă care rezultă din aceste tensiuni sociale. Acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum The Cost of Crime de David A. Anderson, dar cu o abordare mult mai specifică și aplicată asupra mecanismelor de control al armelor, spre deosebire de analiza generalistă a infracționalității din titlul menționat. Apreciem structura argumentației care, deși fundamentată pe date statistice complexe, rămâne accesibilă și relevantă pentru curriculumul de criminologie și asistență socială, oferind soluții concrete prin reglementări țintite.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195153842
ISBN-10: 0195153847
Pagini: 258
Ilustrații: 15 line illus
Dimensiuni: 129 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Studies in Crime and Public Policy

Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui specialist în politici publice sau criminologie care dorește să înțeleagă dimensiunea economică reală a violenței. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă documentată asupra modului în care resursele publice sunt deturnate de la dezvoltare către măsuri de securitate preventivă. Este un instrument esențial pentru a argumenta necesitatea reglementării armelor de foc nu doar prin prisma eticii, ci și a eficienței economice și a calității vieții.

Despre autor

Philip J. Cook este profesor emerit de politici publice și economie la Universitatea Duke și a condus Institutul Sanford pentru Politici Publice. Expertiza sa vastă la intersecția dintre economie și criminologie este reflectată în lucrări de referință precum The Gun Debate și Paying the Tab, unde explorează costurile sociale ale consumului de alcool. Cercetările sale s-au concentrat constant pe modul în care politicile de control și reglementare pot reduce daunele sociale, fiind una dintre cele mai autoritare voci în analiza impactului economic al violenței cu arme de foc în Statele Unite.

Descriere

100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the way Americans view the problem of gun-related violence. Until now researchers have assessed the burden imposed by gunshot injuries and deaths in terms of medical costs and lost productivity. Here, economists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig widen the lens, developing a framework to calculate the full costs borne by Americans in a society where both gun violence and its ever-present threat mandate responses that touch every aspect of our lives. All of us, no matter where we reside or how we live, share the costs of gun violence. Whether waiting in line to pass through airport security or paying taxes for the protection of public officials; whether buying a transparent book bag for our children to meet their school's post-Columbine regulations or subsidizing an urban trauma center, the steps we take are many and the expenditures enormous. Cook and Ludwig reveal that investments in prevention, avoidance, and harm reduction, both public and private, constitute a far greater share of the gun-violence burden than previously recognized. They also employ extensive survey data to measure the subjective costs of living in a society where there is risk of being shot or losing a loved one or neighbor to gunfire. At the same time, they demonstrate that the problem of gun violence is not intractable. Their review of the available evidence suggests that there are both additional gun regulations and targeted law enforcement measures that will help. This urgently needed book documents for the first time how gun violence diminishes the quality of life for everyone in America. In doing so, it will move the debate over gun violence past symbolic politics to a direct engagement with the costs and benefits of policies that hold promise for reducing gun violence and may even pay for themselves.

Recenzii

The first effort to make a comprehensive estimate of the price the nation pays for criminal shootings, gun accidents, and suicides committed with guns.
Offers not one but three significant new ideas about how to comprehend and reduce gun violence in America.
Cook and Ludwig's approach is ambitious and pathbreaking. Theirs is the first attempt to document the many ways in which gun violence affects the United States, and they consider outcomes that are overlooked in most discussions. This important book will be a model for other research, and it should influence discussions of public policy.... Anyone with even a casual interest in the topic will profit from reading it.
Marshalls new information and research to present a compelling picture of the true dimensions and extraordinary costs of gun violence in the United States. The book also debunks some of the key arguments of the NRA and its academic defenders....What makes Cook and Ludwig's book novel is their careful effort to calculate the total costs of gun violence.
An innovative contribution to the growing literature on one of America's most intractable problems.
[A new book on] the economics of gun violence. You won't believe the numbers.
Progress begins on social problems when it becomes possible to measure them. In that spirit come Professors Cook and Ludwig with this exceptional contribution.
A clear, well-written and balanced tour through a maze of competing statistical claims and economic arguments. The Real Costs of Gun Violence is a major contribution to our understanding of both gun violence and the costs of violent crime.
This book does two things, and it does them with thoroughness, skill, and honesty. It identifies what we should mean by 'the real costs,' and it offers responsible estimates. Readers looking only for ammunition to use on either side of the debate will be disappointed; readers who want the best guidance on how to think about the issue, and how to quantify their thinking, will find clarity, reason, and the best data available. There is no comparable work.
Gun violence diminishes the quality of all our lives, threatening hearts and pocketbooks. No one is immune. Cook and Ludwig document the $100 billion cost of the havoc wrought by firearms and provide compelling proof of the need to end the carnage.

Notă biografică

Philip J. Cook is the ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy at Duke University and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been conducting research on firearms and violence for over 25 years, and has served as consultant to the Departments of Justice and the Treasury. He has written extensively on alcohol control, gambling, the economics of crime, and other topics, and is co-author of The Winner-Take-All Society (1995) and Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America (1989). Jens Ludwig is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Affiliated Expert of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. He conducts research on public policies related to crime and education, and has provided testimony on gun policy to state legislatures and other groups in California, Kansas, and Minnesota.