TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Guns, crime and social order
JO  - Criminology and criminal justice
A1  - Sheptycki, J.
SP  - 307
EP  - 336
VL  - 9
IS  - 3
N2  - Canada has undergone intensive public debate concerning firearms over the past two decades, much of which has concerned the effectiveness of gun control legislation. Since about 2005 public discourse has focused increasingly on an upsurge in gun-crime perpetrated by street-level criminals. The article examines the projection of these concerns within the Canadian mass media and through official statistics. It shows that gun control legislation appears to have had a positive effect on gun-related crime in Canada, but that a residuum of gun-crime has remained. Evidence suggests that a process of pistolization is ongoing in some places, but that it is not a dominant strain. The article also looks at some examples of grassroots resistance to pistolization in Canada in some communities that are worst affected by street-level gun crime.<p />
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SN  - 1748-8958
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748895809336379
ID  - ref1
ER  -