+ 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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+ Community norms on toy guns
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Cheng, T. L. / Brenner, R. A. / Wright, J. L. / Sachs, H. C. / Moyer, P. / Rao, M.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Pediatrics
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Gender, Local, Social Science
- Keywords:
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Children, community norm, toy gun play
The authors evaluated community norms regarding toy gun play from the perspective from the parents’ perspective, administering a self-report questionnaire on child rearing attitudes, practice, and sociodemographic...
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+ Gunshot fatalities in children and adolescents in New York City
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Gill, J. R. / Lenz, K. A. / Amolat, M. J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Journal of Forensic Sciences
- Topics:
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Age Group, Alcohol, Ethnicity, Homicide, Local
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Children, EPIDEMIOLOGY, drugs, gunshot wound
The authors examined the epidemiology and characteristics of all deaths from gunshot wounds for people younger than 19 years of age between 1996 and 2000 in New York using medical examiner’s reports...
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+ Effects of gun admonitions on the behaviors and attitudes of school-aged boys
- Author:
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Hardy, M. S.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- J Dev Behav Pediatr
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Gender, Social Science, Students
- Keywords:
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African-American, Behavior, admonition, boy, gun
The author evaluated the impact of gun admonitions on boys’ preferences for and behavior in the presence of a gun, using a sample of 55, mostly African-American, boys from a summer camp for disadvantaged...
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+ Policing Guns and Youth Violence
- Author:
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Fagan, Jeffrey
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- The Future of Children
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Law Enforcement, Legislation and Policy
- Keywords:
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Firearms, Law Enforcement, Urban Environments, Youth Violence, gun crimes
The author reviewed case studies of 8 cities’ efforts to police gun crime, ranging from police-citizen partnerships to address youth violence or aggressive enforcement against young suspects of even minor...
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+ Firearm-Related Death and Injury among Children and Adolescents
- Author:
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Fingerhut, Lois A. / Christoffel, Katherine Kaufer
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- The Future of Children
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Gender, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Injuries, Weapons, firearm-related death, guns, mortality rate
The authors review the incidence of injury and death due to firearms among Americans younger than 20 years. Using National Vital Statistics System and Firearm Injury Surveillance System (FISS), the authors...
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+ Violent behaviors in early adolescent minority youth: results from a "middle school youth risk behavior survey"
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Clubb, P. A. / Browne, D. C. / Humphrey, A. D. / Schoenbach, V. / Meyer, B. / Jackson, M.
- Date:
- 2001
- Publication:
- Matern Child Health J
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Gun Carrying, Students
- Keywords:
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African-American, Alabama, Gun carrying, HISPANIC Americans, Survey
6400 minority (non-White) middle school students between the ages of 9 and 19 in 6 states (Alabama, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Washington) responded to a 10 question survey about...
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