+ 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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+ Population Factors Associated with Assault-related Firearm Injuries in Male Adolescents.
- Author:
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McLaughlin, C.R. / Daniel, J. / Reiner, S.M. / Waite, D.E. / Reams, P.N. / Joost, T.F. / Anderson, J.L. / Gervin, A.S.
- Date:
- 2000
- Publication:
- Journal of Adolescent Health
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Gender
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Firearms, Substance Use, Violence, juvenile offender
To identify factors associated with an increased prevalence of assault-related firearm injuries in male adolescents, two groups of adolescents from the Richmond, Virginia, metropolitan area were compared...
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+ Firearm Enhancements under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
- Author:
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Burman KC
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- University of Chicago Law Review
- Topics:
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Crime, Legislation and Policy, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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CRIME, enhancement clause, interpretation, offender, sentence
The author considers the application of the enhancement clause in the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (which determines the sentences of convicted federal offenders). The author provides background on the...
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+ Estimating the Size of a Criminal Population from Police Records Using the Truncated Poisson Regression Model
- Author:
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van Der Heijden, Peter G. M. / Cruyff, Maarten / van Houwelingen, Hans C.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Statistica Neerlandica
- Topics:
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Crime, International, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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capture-recapture model, methodology, offender
The authors try to estimate the total number of offenders in the Netherlands using data from Dutch police records. They use the capture-recapture model from biology that is used to estimate animal abundance...
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+ KINGPINS OR MULES: AN ANALYSIS OF DRUG OFFENDERS INCARCERATED IN FEDERAL AND STATE PRISONS
- Author:
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Sevigny EL / Caulkins JP
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Criminology & Public Policy
- Topics:
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Criminology, Law Enforcement, Social Science
- Keywords:
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drug, offender, prison, spectrum
The authors evaluate incarcerated drug offenders with regards to their participation in drug groups, the type and amount of drugs, their involvement with firearms, and their criminal conviction and arrest...
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