+ Serious youth gun offenders and the epidemic of youth violence in Boston
- Author:
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Braga, A. A.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Journal of Quantitative Criminology
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Criminology, Gun Carrying, Law Enforcement, Local
- Keywords:
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Boston, Epidemic, Violence, Youth, offender
The author analyzed criminal history data of a sample of 720 gun assault and gun possession offenders younger than 24 years old, arrested between 1984 and 1995 in Boston, to examine whether the criminal...
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+ After the epidemic: Recent trends in youth violence in the United States
- Author:
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Cook, P. J. / Laub, J. H.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Crime and Justice: a Review of Research
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Homicide, Public Health, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Epidemic, UNITED States, Youth Violence, trend
The authors examined the epidemic of US youth violence that peaked in the mid-90s and then has consistently dropped. They assess the validity of two types of explanations for this reversal in trends,...
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