Availability of Small Arms and Perceptions of Security in Kenya : (Record no. 1336)

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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency WaSeSS
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050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number KSK3579
Item number .W47 2012
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wepundi, Manasseh.
9 (RLIN) 535
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Availability of Small Arms and Perceptions of Security in Kenya :
Remainder of title An Assessment /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Manasseh Wepundi.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. [S.l.] :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Small Arms Survey,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2012.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 127pages
Dimensions 21cm
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General note Title from content provider.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note List of maps, figures, and tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br/>Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br/>Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br/>Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br/>Abbreviations and acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br/>Executive summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br/>I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br/>The small arms problem in Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br/>Historical and regional developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br/>Domestic causes of small arms proliferation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br/>Impact of small arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26<br/>Security and disarmament interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br/>Achievements and challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br/>Objectives for the National Arms Mapping project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br/>Methodology and scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br/>II. Small arms and perceptions of security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39<br/>Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39<br/>Small arms trends and extent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39<br/>Perceived causes of small arms demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39<br/>Estimates of household firearms ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br/>Public perceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44<br/>Perceived modes of small arms acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48<br/>Indicators of the perceived impact of small arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br/>Gun deaths and/or injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br/>Small arms impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br/>Small arms sources and movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55<br/>Cost of small arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58<br/>Small arms, crime, and violence: a victimization survey . . . . . . . . . . . . 60<br/>General views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60<br/>Victimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br/>III. Kenya’s small arms control capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66<br/>Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66<br/>Overall success in controlling illicit small arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66<br/>Border control mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70<br/>Mitigating the challenge of illicit small arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br/>Disarmament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br/>Awareness creation on small arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76<br/>Arrest and prosecution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br/>Specialized police unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82<br/>Early warning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84<br/>Challenges faced in combating illicit small arms and light weapons 84<br/>Public perception of the success of small arms control initiatives . . . 86<br/>IV. Conclusions and recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br/>Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br/>Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93<br/>Monitoring and understanding the nature of the problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 93<br/>Institutional environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br/>Measures to reduce access to firearms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96<br/>Measures dealing with victims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97<br/>Systemic development-oriented measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97<br/>V. Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99<br/>Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99<br/>Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99<br/>Sampling frame for the HH survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99<br/>Sampling for CSO and LEA interviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100<br/>Sampling for FGDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br/>Target area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br/>Cleaning, validating, and weighting data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104<br/>Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br/>Training and data collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br/>Interviewing method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br/>Data entry and cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br/>Demographic findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107<br/>Gender representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107<br/>Age of respondents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108<br/>Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108<br/>Appendix 1: Sample distribution by county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109<br/>Appendix 2:<br/>Methodology on firearm possession estimates in Table 2.3 . . . . . . . . . . . 110<br/>Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111<br/>Not surveyed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111<br/>Appendix 3: Arms recovered in 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113<br/>Endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114<br/>Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119<br/>Publications list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
506 ## - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE
Terms governing access Available on campus and off campus with authorized login.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Small arms
Form subdivision Studies.
Geographic subdivision Kenya.
9 (RLIN) 536
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Violence
Form subdivision Social aspects.
General subdivision
Geographic subdivision Kenya.
9 (RLIN) 537
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Arms trafficking
Form subdivision Research.
Geographic subdivision Kenya.
9 (RLIN) 538
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Security perception
Geographic subdivision Kenya.
9 (RLIN) 539
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