How gun control policies evolve: Gun culture, ‘gunscapes’ and political contingency in post-Soviet Georgia

We analyse the influence of gun culture and exogenous political events on gun regulation in post-Soviet Georgia. While neighbouring states retain restrictive Soviet-era gun laws, in Georgia, state failure, armed conflict and proliferation of weapons during the 1990s all impelled recent governments t...

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Authors: Light, Matthew (Author) ; Slonimerov, Eugene (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Theoretical criminology
Year: 2020, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 590-611
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Conflict
Firearms
Guns
Police and policing
Post-communism
Regulation
Vigilantism
Republic of Georgia