+ Worldview of high-risk juvenile delinquents - Relationship to decisions to shoot
- Author:
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Goldberg, J. H.
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- Criminal Justice and Behavior
- Topics:
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Age Group, Criminology
- Keywords:
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Decision making, Juvenile delinquent, Violence
The authors administered surveys to 34 high-risk male delinquents between 15 & 18 years-old which included a scenario requiring a judgment to shoot or not. Those indicating a preference to shoot in the...
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+ GANGS, GUNS, AND DRUGS: RECIDIVISM AMONG SERIOUS, YOUNG OFFENDERS
- Author:
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Huebner, Beth M. / Varano, Sean P. / Bynum, Timothy S.
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- Criminology & Public Policy
- Topics:
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Age Group, Criminology
- Keywords:
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Drug Use, Gang, Recidivism, Survival Analysis
Using crime reports and surveys of 322 young men aged 17-24 years released from prison in a Midwestern state, the authors investigated the role that gang membership, gun use and drug dependence played...
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+ GANG MEMBERSHIP, DRUGS AND CRIME IN THE UK
- Author:
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Bennett T / Holloway K
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- British Journal of Criminology
- Topics:
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Age Group, Criminology, Gender, International
- Keywords:
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Behavior, Gang, United Kingdom
The authors examine the extent of gang membership in the United Kingdom and the association between gang membership and unhealthy behaviors (e.g. violent crime, drug trading, vandalism, drug misuse) using...
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+ Predicting Fatal Assault Among the Elderly Using the National Incident-Based Reporting System Crime Data
- Author:
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Chu LD / Kraus JF
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Homicide Studies
- Topics:
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Age Group, Criminology, Homicide, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Mortality, assault, elderly violence
The authors describe the characteristics of homicide and assault victims and evaluate the use of victim and offender demographic characteristics, victim-offender relationship, weapons used, circumstances,...
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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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+ Gun Availability and Violent Crime: New Evidence from the National Incident-Based Reporting System
- Author:
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Stolzenberg, L. / D’Alessio, S.J.
- Date:
- 2000
- Publication:
- Social Forces
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, Criminology, Gun Carrying, Law Enforcement, Legislation and Policy
- Keywords:
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GUN control, VIOLENT crimes, Youth, firearm availability, gun crimes
Using data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System for South Carolina from 1991 to 1994, the authors explore how gun availability is related to violent crime, gun crime, youth gun crime and...
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+ Relationship between Substance Use, Drug Selling, and Lethal Violence in 25 Juvenile Murderers
- Author:
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McLaughlin C.R. / Daniel J. / Joost, T.F.
- Date:
- 2000
- Publication:
- Journal of Forensic Sciences
- Topics:
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Age Group, Criminology, Homicide
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, CRIMINOLOGY, Crime Victims, HOMICIDE, Humans, male prisoners, risk factors, substance-related disorders, violence
This study, designed to ascertain the relationship between substance abuse, drug selling, and lethal violence in adolescent male homicide offenders and their victims, utilized data from criminal justice...
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+ Firearms Research and the Crime Drop
- Author:
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Rosenfeld, Richard
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Criminology & Public Policy
- Topics:
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Crime, Criminology, Law Enforcement
- Keywords:
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CRIME, HOMICIDE, UNITED States, Victims
The article lines an explanation of the drop in firearms violence during the 1990s and lessons that should be learned to avoid an increase. Previously it has been argued that growth in police and imprisonment...
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+ Robberies with guns: Neighborhood factors and the nature of crime
- Author:
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Warner, B. D.
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- Journal of Criminal Justice
- Topics:
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Crime, Criminology, Law Enforcement, Social Science, Urban/Rural
- Keywords:
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ROBBERY
This study compares neighborhood-level predictors of non-commercial robberies committed with guns to predictors of other (non-gun) non-commercial robberies. Extending earlier sociological research on...
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