"If it don't kill you, it'll take away your life": survival strategies and isolation in a long-running gun conflict

Gun violence in the United States often spurs long-running conflicts, but little is known about how individuals involved in these conflicts cope with the lingering threat of being shot. Drawing on an in-depth ethnographic case study of one young man's long-running gun conflict in New Orleans, a...

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Main Author: Wooten, Tom (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Criminology
Year: 2022, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 581-605
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Keywords:
consequences of violence
Gun violence
Neighborhoods
Social Isolation

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