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Abstract
Using GIS to Evaluate an Anthropological Model of Patterned ViolenceTrack: Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
Author(s): Denyse A. Lemaire, David R. Kasserman, Pierre Y. Lemaire
Using cultural anthropology's traditional methods of cross-cultural analysis, we will generate a model of the cultural basis for the varying patterns of violence in cultures that accept violence as an appropriate response to specific circumstances and in cultures that reject the validity of violent response in all cases. The applicability of this model to the United States will be tested by using GIS to evaluate data on American violence. We will then comment on possible reasons for the inability of participants in the current debate over gun control to determine unequivocally the causes of American violence.
Denyse A. Lemaire
Rowan University
201 Mullica Hill Road
Glassboro, NJ 08028
USA
Phone: 1 856 256 4500 x3976
Fax: 1 856 256 4918
E-mail: Lemaire@Rowan.edu