Public Opinion about Gun Policies
Tom W. Smith
The Future of Children, Vol. 12, No. 2,
Children, Youth, and Gun Violence.
(Summer - Autumn, 2002),
pp. 154-163.
Children, Youth, and Gun Violence: Analysis and Recommendations
Kathleen Reich; Patti L. Culross; Richard E. Behrman
The Future of Children, Vol. 12, No. 2,
Children, Youth, and Gun Violence.
(Summer - Autumn, 2002),
pp. 4-23.
A legitimate argument regarding gun control and it's fluid existance in the American culture is the availability of guns to minority populations that have turned gun violence into their primary culture. The enforcement of such laws increases the impact on these communities 'creating' a feedback loop that is anti-social and dangerous. When controlling weapons in a society the enforcement has to be equitable across cultural venues, however, considerations in sentencing has to include the fact the gun violence and crime was committed in a community 'entrenched' in the a culture of drugs and drug cultural economy. Where there is poverty in the USA, there is drugs. Where there is drugs, there are guns. We cannot sequester minorities in the USA into 'blocks' of poverty, poor education and violence to enforce laws that will create more of the same culturally. There must accompany all venues, educational directives that are intended to stop the cultural violence and turn children away from crime through understanding of the law, IF, you can get them to attend school.
The Law and Juvenile Justice for People of Color in Elementary and Secondary Schools
Frank Brown; Charles J. Russo; Richard C. HunterSource:
The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 71, No. 3, Juvenile
Children of Color in the United States.
(Summer, 2002), pp. 128-142.
...An alternative solution would be to teach children about the justice system through education on the Constitution. Young people, including children of color, will be inclined to obey thelaw if they understand the laws and their individual relationship to the Constitution, the courts, and the political process.
The Integration Game
Abraham Bell; Gideon Parchomovsky
Columbia Law Review, Vol. 100, No. 8.
(Dec., 2000),
pp. 1965-2029.
Despite studies indicating an increasing preference for integrated housing and legal measures against housing discrimination, housing segregation persists in American society. This Article addresses this seeming paradox by challenging Thomas Schelling's classic tipping model as overly simplistic, and advancing in its stead a three-game model of homeowner preferences. After characterizing the interplay of incentives that distorts homeowner choices in resegregating neighborhoods, the Article draws on techniques that have been developed to neutralize distortionary incentives in the stock market to propose four measures for combatting market incentives leading to resegregation: home-equity insurance, realty sales taxes, institutional subsidies, and growth controls. While these techniques will not completely arrest resegregation, they will enable nonbiased homeowners to achieve their goal of racially integrated housing. In addition to increasing integration, these techniques should create a separating equilibrium in which only racially biased individuals would choose to leave racially changing neighborhoods, thereby revealing their true colors.
