Gun Present: Inside a Southern District Attorney's Battle against Gun Violence

Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors—an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney—present a deeply human portrait of prosecutors’ work. Built on an immersive, community—based participatory partnership between researchers and criminal justice professionals, Gun Present chronicles how a justice assemblage compri...