Targeting Guns by Gary Kleck
Author:Gary Kleck [Kleck, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Criminology
ISBN: 9781351486965
Google: NCAxDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05T04:33:14+00:00
Inhibition
In an early study of victim survey data from eight cities, Hindelang concluded that âwhen a gun is involved in a victimization, both the victim and the offender appear to be more restrained and interested in avoiding an attack with the weaponâ (1976:263). Thus, not only does the victimâs defensive use of a gun inhibit aggressor attacks (Chapter 5), but even the aggressorâs possession of a gun can inhibit his own aggression, as well as that of his victim. In many assaults the aggressor not only lacks an intent to kill, but specifically wants to avoid killing his victim. Instead, he may want only to frighten or to hurt without killing. Possession of a lethal weapon gives such an assaulter more killing power than he needs or wants, and to attack would risk inflicting more harm than the assaulter wanted. The possession of deadly weapons raises the stakes into what may seem to be an all-or-nothing situation: kill or do not attack at all. Given that the intentions of assaulters as a group cluster predominantly at the less deadly end of the continuum, one common effect of aggressor possession of guns and other deadly weapons could therefore be inhibition of attack behavior. As previously noted, a number of âweapons effectâ experiments indicated that the sight of weapons could inhibit aggression under some conditions.
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