Professor Caroline Light’s book, Stand Your Ground: A History Of America's Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense (Beacon Press, 2017) is featured on NPR’s list of “5 books that try to help explain the unexplainable: the U.S. gun violence epidemic. 

Caroline Light is the author of Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (Beacon Press, 2017). Her blog, In the Crosshairs, appears on the website of the School of Public Health's HPHR Journal.