Gun Present: Inside a Southern District Attorney's Battle Against Gun Violence

Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors--an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney--present a deeply human portrait of prosecutors' work. Built on an immersive, community-based participatory partnership between researchers and criminal justice professionals, Gun Present chronicles how a justice assemblage comprising institutional structures and practices, relationships and roles, and individual moral and emotional worlds informs the day-to-day administration of justice. Weaving together in-depth interviews, quantitative analysis of more than a thousand criminal cases, analysis of trial transcripts, and over a year of ethnographic observations, Gun Present provides a model for scholar-practitioner collaborations.

• | Author: Susan Dewey
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2024
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0520393678
• | ISBN-13: 9780520393677