+ A game theoretic analysis of interactions between law abiding citizens and criminals with respect to ownership of guns
- Author:
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Correa, Hector
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Crime, Ownership, Self-defense Gun Use/Deterrence
- Keywords:
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CRIMINALS, EQUILIBRIUM, FIREARMS ownership, GAME theory, SOCIETIES
The author conducted a theoretical analysis of interactions between law abiding citizens (LACs) and criminals, assuming these are mutually exclusive categories. LACs will increase their ownership of guns...
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+ What We Know About Gun Use Among Adolescents
- Author:
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Wilkinson, Deanna L. / Fagan, Jeffrey
- Date:
- 2001
- Publication:
- Clinical Child & Family Psychology Review
- Topics:
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Adolescent, Crime, Gender, Gun Carrying, Homicide
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Male, Violence, firearms acquisition and use, interviews
The authors provide a useful review of studies that used school-based surveys or samples of high-risk youth to assess adolescents’ gun-related behavior over the 1990’s. The authors conclude that, although...
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+ The illicit acquisition of firearms by youth and juveniles
- Author:
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Braga, Anthony A. / Kennedy, David M.
- Date:
- 2001
- Publication:
- Journal of Criminal Justice
- Topics:
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Adolescent, Crime, Law Enforcement
- Keywords:
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Children, gun trafficking, young adults
The authors review firearms trafficking investigations (July 1996-December 2008) reported by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) on a survey developed by the authors. The focus of the study...
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+ The effect of fear of sexual victimization on adolescent fear of crime
- Author:
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May, D. C.
- Date:
- 2001
- Publication:
- Sociological Spectrum
- Topics:
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Adolescents, Crime, Students
- Keywords:
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Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, FEAR of crime, students
Using data from the Mississippi High School Youth Survey of 725 rural and suburban 10th through 12th grade students and theories of adult fear of crime, the author evaluates adolescent fear of sexual...
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+ 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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