+ The financial burden of injury-related hospitalizations to an Alaska Native health system
- Author:
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Chandler, B. A. / Berger, L. R.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Alaska Med
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Ethnicity, Local, Medical, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Alaska, Firearms, Health Care Costs, Suicide, Violence
The authors evaluated how much the Tanana Chiefs Conference in Interior Alaska, a Native Alaskans’ health care system, paid for injury-related hospitalizations from 1994-1998. They identified 511 cases...
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+ Early violent death among delinquent youth: A prospective longitudinal study
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Teplin, L. A. / McClelland, G. M. / Abram, K. M. / Mileusnic, D.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Pediatrics
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Gender, Homicide, Local
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Chicago, Health disparities, Juvenile Justice, Mortality
This study examines the prevalence of death by age 24 among 1,829 youth (aged 10-18 years) who were in the juvenile justice system in Chicago. The death rate was then compared to the death rate for youth...
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+ Community norms on toy guns
- Author:
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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
- Author:
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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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+ The strategic prevention of gun violence among gang-involved offenders
- Author:
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Braga AA / Pierce GL / McDevitt J / Bond BJ / Cronin S
- Date:
- 2008
- Publication:
- Justice Quarterly
- Topics:
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Crime, Ethnicity, Homicide, Law Enforcement, Local
- Keywords:
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Deterrence Techniques, Gang, Gang Violence, Intervention Strategy, Policing strategies
“Pulling levers” policing strategies to reduce gang violence, and gang-related gun violence in particular, are increasingly common. This paper evaluates the effect of an intervention that employed “pulling...
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+ Pulling levers focused deterrence strategies and the prevention of gun homicide
- Author:
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Braga AA
- Date:
- 2008
- Publication:
- Journal of Criminal Justice
- Topics:
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Crime, Ethnicity, Homicide, Law Enforcement, Local
- Keywords:
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Criminal Justice, Deterrence Intervention, Gang, Gun Homicide, Operation Peacekeeper
In the late 1990’s, the City of Stockton, CA implemented “Operation Peacekeeper,” a “pulling levers” focused deterrence intervention designed to reduce gun homicide in the city. This paper describes the...
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+ Firearm Use, Injury, and Lethality in Assaultive Violence: An Examination of Ethnic Differences
- Author:
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Nielsen, Amie L. / Martinez, Jr Ramiro / Rosenfeld, Richard
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Homicide Studies
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Homicide, Local
- Keywords:
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ETHNICITY, Florida, HISPANIC Americans, MIAMI, Violence
Data from the Miami Police Department on aggravated assaults and assault-related homicide occurring in 1996 and 1997 were analyzed in an evaluation of ethnic differences in firearm use, injury, and lethality...
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+ Segmented assimilation, local context and determinants of drug violence in Miami and San Diego: Does ethnicity and immigration matter?
- Author:
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Martinez R / Lee MT / Nielsen AL
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- International Migration Review
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Local, Social Science
- Keywords:
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disadvantage, ethinicity, immigration, social capital
The authors examine the impact of ethnic and immigrant community composition on drig violence in Miami and San Diego, using information about the distribution of Cubans, Central Americans, Haitians, Mexicans...
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+ Episodic and persistent gun-carrying among urban African-American adolescents
- Author:
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Steinman, K. J. / Zimmerman, M. A.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- J Adolesc Health
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Gun Carrying, Local, Students, Urban/Rural
- Keywords:
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Adolescents, African-American, Firearms, Violence, risk factor
The authors examined the risk factors influencing occasional and persistent gun-carrying by urban African-American adolescents, interviewing 705 African-American high school students from four public...
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+ Drugs and Firearm Deaths in New York City
- Author:
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Galea, S. / Ahern, J. / Tardiff, K. / Leon, A. C. / Vlahov, D.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Local, Medical
- Keywords:
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Drug Use, Firearms, New York City, medical examiner
The authors used Medical Examiner records data from New York City to examine the role of drugs in the incidence of firearm deaths from 1990 to 1998. From toxicology reports, they found that half of all...
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