{"id":1180,"date":"2012-03-22T09:10:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T09:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=1180"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:44:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:44:58","slug":"trayvon-martin-and-community-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2012\/03\/22\/trayvon-martin-and-community-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Trayvon Martin and Community Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Douglas A. Smith and Craig D. Uchida, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/discover\/10.2307\/2095735?uid=3739736&#038;uid=2&#038;uid=4&#038;uid=3739256&#038;sid=55934143763\">&ldquo;The Social Organization of Self-Help: A Study of Defensive Weapon Ownership,&rdquo; <em>American Sociological Review<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 1988<\/span><\/div>\n<p>As the Sanford, FL city commission voted &#8220;no confidence&#8221; in their police chief following the shooting of teen Trayvon Martin, this article is instructive in what legal scholars like Donald Black call violent &#8220;self-help&#8221;&#8212;a tactic vigilante citizens may use when they feel their government is not providing control and protection. In a classic piece, Smith and Uchida test this ideas, finding higher weapon ownership in areas in which police are perceived as ineffective and citizens report feeling vulnerable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas A. Smith and Craig D. Uchida, &ldquo;The Social Organization of Self-Help: A Study of Defensive Weapon Ownership,&rdquo; American Sociological Review, 1988 As the Sanford, FL city commission voted &#8220;no confidence&#8221; in their police chief following the shooting of teen Trayvon Martin, this article is instructive in what legal scholars like Donald Black call violent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,13,14],"tags":[37337,1063,14947,14945],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-inequality","category-race","tag-crime","tag-criminology","tag-gun-ownership","tag-self-help"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8346,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/8346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}