+ 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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+ People and guns involved in denied and completed handgun sales
- Author:
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Wright, M. A. / Wintemute, G. J. / Claire, B. E.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, State, Supply
- Keywords:
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AMMUNITION, PISTOLS, UNITED States, Violence
Using data on handgun sales and denials in California from 1998 to 2000, the authors found that compared with handguns in completed sales, handguns in denied sales were more like guns used in crime. They...
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+ Guns and juvenile crime
- Author:
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Mocan, H. N. / Tekin, E.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Journal of Law & Economics
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Supply
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Gun availability, Victimization
Data from two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) were used in an investigation of the effect of gun availability at home on robbery, burglary, theft, and property...
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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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+ 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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+ Adolescent femicide - A population-based study
- Author:
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Coyne-Beasley, T. / Moracco, K. E. / Casteel, M. J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Criminology, Gender, Homicide, State
- Keywords:
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Firearms, criminal record, intimate violence, relatiionship abuse
The authors examined the context of adolescent femicide, using data from medical examiner reports for all 11- to 18-year-old female homicide victims from 1990 to 1995 in North Carolina and supplementing...
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+ Deadly demographics: Population characteristics and forecasting homicide trends
- Author:
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Fox, J. A. / Piquero, A. R.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Crime & Delinquency
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Criminology, Homicide, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Supplementary Homicide Reports, demographics, homicide rate
The authors examined the effect of demographic change on the changes in homicide rates that occurred during the 1990s using data from FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) for the period 1976-1999...
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+ Psychosocial needs of young persons who are victims of interpersonal violence
- Author:
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Zun, L. S. / Rosen, J. M.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Pediatric Emergency Care
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Ethnicity, Gender, Medical, Social Science
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, African American, Male, psychosocial need
In this descriptive study, the authors assessed the psychosocial needs of victims of interpersonal violence, using a sample of 112 such victims aged 10 to 24 years and a specialized evaluation tool administered...
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+ Youth, Guns, and Violent Crime
- Author:
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Blumstein, Alfred
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- The Future of Children
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Gun Carrying, Homicide, Law Enforcement, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Firearms, Youth Violence, guns, juvenile delinquency, violent crime
The author examines the trends of homicide and robbery violence in the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He notes that the increase in violence over that period was mostly because of...
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