+ Adolescent Violence: The Protective Effects of Youth Assets
- Author:
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Aspy CB / Oman RF / Vesely SK / McLeroy K / Rodine S / Marshall L
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Journal of Counseling and Development
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Gender, Gun Carrying, Students
- Keywords:
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Gun carrying, inner-city, interview, physical fighting
The authors examined the association between demographic and social characteristics, and the prevalence of physical fighting and weapon carrying in adolescents attending school and in Grades 6 through...
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+ The intention of adolescents to carry a knife or a gun: a study of low-income African-American adolescents
- Author:
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Lane MA / Cunningham SD / Ellen JM
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- J Adolesc Health
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Gender, Gun Carrying
- Keywords:
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African-American, Gun carrying, Victimization, delinquency, knife carrying
The authors examined the motivation for African-American adolescents to carry a knife or a gun (specifically the roles of fear of victimization and prior history of delinquency), using a household-based...
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+ Gun carrying among male adolescents as a function of gun ownership in the general population
- Author:
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Wintemute, G. J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Ann Emerg Med
- Topics:
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Age Group, Gender, Gun Carrying, Ownership
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, gun suicide, prevalence of gun ownership
The author evaluated whether male adolescent gun carrying is positively associated with the prevalence of gun ownership in the general population, using state-level data on student gun carrying from the...
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+ Relationship between Attributional Errors and at-Risk Behaviors among Juvenile Delinquents.
- Author:
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Daley, C.E / Onwuegbuzie, A.J.
- Date:
- 2000
- Publication:
- Non-journal (the paper was presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association in New Orleans, LA; April 24-28, 2000)
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Education/Counseling, Gender, Gun Carrying
- Keywords:
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Adolescents, Substance Abuse, Violence, delinquency, guns, juvenile gangs
Using data derived from surveying 82 adolescent males aged 12 to 18, who were incarcerated in correctional facilities in a large southeastern state in the U.S., the authors explore whether risky behaviors...
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+ Access to firearms and risk for suicide in middle-aged and older adults
- Author:
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Conwell, Yeates / Duberstein, Paul R. / Connor, Kenneth / Eberly, Shirley / Cox, Christopher / Caine, Eric D.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
- Topics:
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Gender, Gun Carrying, Local, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Psychological Autopsy, Weapons, handguns, risk for suicide, suicide prevention
The authors evaluated the association between suicide risk and access to and storage of firearms in this psychological autopsy study of 86 suicide victims older than 50 and 86 community control subjects...
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