+ Unintentional Gun Injuries, Firearm Design, and Prevention: What We Know, What We Need to Know, and What Can Be Done
- Author:
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Frattaroli, S. / Webster, D. W. / Teret, S. P.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Gun Carrying, Legislation and Policy, Ownership
- Keywords:
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Accident Prevention, Adolescent, Equipment Design, Safety, UNITED States
The authors reviewed historical trends and the current state of unintentional firearm injury and mortality. They described the demographics of gun ownership and the access to firearms by different groups...
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+ The supply and demand for guns to juveniles: Oakland's gun tracing project
- Author:
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Calhoun, D. / Dodge, A. C. / Journel, C. S. / Zahnd, E.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Local, Supply, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, California, Crime/statistics & numerical data, Firearms/ legislation & jurisprudence, Program Evaluation
Using police records and gun sale/registration information, data were collected for all gun crimes committed in Oakland, California between 1998 and 1999 in which a juvenile was either the suspect...
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+ The Epidemiology of Firearm Suicide in the United States
- Author:
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Romero, M. P. / Wintemute, G. J.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Gender, Suicide, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Firearms, National Center for Health Statistics, Suicide, UNITED States
The authors describe the epidemiology of firearm suicide in the United States from 1980 to 1998, using data from the National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Files. They found that rates of firearm...
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+ Gun carrying and drug selling among young incarcerated men and women
- Author:
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Kacanek, D. / Hemenway, D.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Crime, Gender, Gun Carrying
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Adult, Commerce, Crime/statistics & numerical data, Female
The study used data from the Social Determinants of Incarceration and HIV Risk Study, a survey of 135 men and 69 women, ages 18-25, incarcerated at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institution. Participants...
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+ Effects of a gun dealer's change in sales practices on the supply of guns to criminals
- Author:
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Webster, D. W. / Vernick, J. S. / Bulzacchelli, M. I.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Crime, Supply, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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CRIME, Firearms/ economics, Licensure, Marketing, UNITED States
On May 10, 1999, a single gun store that had sold more than half of the guns recovered from criminals in Milwaukee, WI shortly following retail sale, stopped selling small, inexpensive handguns popular...
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+ How Delinquent Youths Acquire Guns: Initial Versus Most Recent Gun Acquisitions
- Author:
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Webster, D. W. / Freed, L. H. / Frattaroli, S. / Wilson, M. H.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Criminology, Supply
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Commerce, Maryland, juvenile delinquency
The authors examined how youth involved in criminal activities acquire guns, using interview data from 45 residents of a juvenile justice facility for males in Maryland. Two thirds of participants (n=30)...
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+ Girls and weapons: an international study of the perpetration of violence
- Author:
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Erickson, P. G. / Butters, J. E. / Cousineau, M. M. / Harrison, L. / Korf, D.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Gender, Gun Carrying, International
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Crime Victims/statistics & numerical data, Female, Firearms/ statistics & numerical data
510 girls ages 14-17 in four cities (Amsterdam, Montreal, Philadelphia, and Toronto) were interviewed about their weapons-related behaviors. The highest percentage of girls who reported carrying a gun...
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+ Hidden homicide increases in the USA: 1999-2005
- Author:
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Hu GQ / Webster D / Baker SP
- Date:
- 2008
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Topics:
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Homicide, Urban/Rural
- Keywords:
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Disparity, Men, Metropolitan Areas, Race
The authors analyzed homicide rates for 1999-2005 provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They found that national homicide rates, which neither increased nor decreased, obscured large...
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+ Three-Year Follow-up of Survivors of a Mass Shooting Episode
- Author:
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North, C. S. / McCutcheon, V. / Spitznagel, E. L. / Smith, E. M.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Mental Health
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Firearms, Follow-Up Studies, HOMICIDE, UNITED States
The authors report the results of a three-year follow-up study of 116 survivors of a mass shooting incident at 1-2 months, 1 year and 3 years post-event, using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule/Disaster...
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