+ Illegal Gun Crimes: A View from the Streets
- Author:
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Serpas, Ronal W.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Criminology & Public Policy
- Topics:
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- Keywords:
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CRIME
Nashville Police Chief Serpas responds to three articles on reducing gun violence in the journal Criminology and Public Policy (Volume 4, number 4). While the supply-side policies advocated in several...
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+ Psychiatric illness and gun licensing
- Author:
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Thompson, Paul
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Psychiatric Bulletin
- Topics:
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- Keywords:
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CRIME, U.S. Constitution, gun licensing, legal access, psychiatric illness
+ Intimate partner violence: homicides followed by suicides in Kentucky
- Author:
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Walsh, S. / Hemenway, D.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- J Ky Med Assoc
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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- Keywords:
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CRIME, HOMICIDE, Kentucky, Spouse Abuse, Suicide
+ The Michigan firearms statute: are there racial/ethnic implications?
- Author:
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Corley, Charles J. / Hawkins, Homer C.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice
- Topics:
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- Keywords:
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AGE, African Americans, CARJACKING, CRIME, Race
+ The effect of fear of sexual victimization on adolescent fear of crime
- Author:
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May, D. C.
- Date:
- 2001
- Publication:
- Sociological Spectrum
- Topics:
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Adolescents, Crime, Students
- Keywords:
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Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, FEAR of crime, students
Using data from the Mississippi High School Youth Survey of 725 rural and suburban 10th through 12th grade students and theories of adult fear of crime, the author evaluates adolescent fear of sexual...
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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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+ Psychosocial Correlates of Dating Violence Victimization among Latino Youth
- Author:
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Howard, Donna E. / Beck, Kenneth / Kerr, Melissa Hallmark / Shattuck, Teresa
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Adolescence
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Gun Carrying
- Keywords:
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Dating, District of Columbia; Washington, Suicide, Victims of Crime, Weapons
A total of 446 Latino adolescents 14-19 years old completed the Identity Positive Youth Development Survey for Latino Youth for a study of physical dating violence victimization. Approximately 9%...
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+ Reassessing who contributed most to the decline in violence during the 1990s: A reminder that size does matter
- Author:
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Rennison, Callie Marie / Planty, Mike
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Violence and Victims
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Ethnicity, Gender, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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CRIME, fatal violence, firearm violence, nonfatal violence, young Black urban males
Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey, including approximately 200,000 interviews annually, were used to examine the trends in nonfatal, serious violence from 1994 through 2001. Firearms...
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+ From gunstore to smoking gun: tracking guns that kill children in North Carolina
- Author:
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Campbell BT / Radisch DL / Phillips JD / von Allmen D
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- J Pediatr Surg
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Homicide, State, Supply, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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HOMICIDE, Suicide, pediatric death, retail sale, time-to-crime
The authors examined the incidence of firearm deaths among all children younger than 14 years in North Carolina from January 1999 through December 2002 and estimated the time between the guns’ retail...
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+ The life cycle of crime guns: a description based on guns recovered from young people in California
- Author:
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Wintemute GJ / Romero MP / Wright MA / Grassel KM
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Ann Emerg Med
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Ownership, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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gun life cycle, gun trafficking, time to crime
The authors examine the cycle of crime guns recovered from people younger than 25 years between manufacture and use, in this cross-sectional study using gun ownership tracing data from the Bureau of Alcohol,...
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+ Young people: victims of violence
- Author:
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Bailey S / Whittle N
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Current Opinion in Psychiatry
- Topics:
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Age Group, Education/Counseling, Homicide, Public Health
- Keywords:
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Gender, Review, dating violence, hate crime
The authors review the recent findings of the youth violence research field. They highlight: the complex interactions of community and family violence, the influence of ethnic and cultural background,...
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