+ Self-inflicted accidental gunshot wounds
- Author:
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Chung, Yung A.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Legal Medicine
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Education/Counseling, Local, Prevention, Public Health
- Keywords:
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medical examiner, self-inflicted gun death, toy gun, unintentional gunshot wound
The author examines toy gun designs that mirror current weapon designs, by reviewing all firearm deaths a Michigan county using medical examiner’s records from 1990 to 2000. He found an average of 500...
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+ Guns in the home: risky business
- Author:
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Wiebe, D. J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- LDI Issue Brief
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Gender, Homicide, Suicide
- Keywords:
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household firearm, risk factor, woman
This brief summarizes two of the author’s previously published case-control studies that combine data from the National Mortality Followback Survey and the National Health Interview Survey. Women with...
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+ Firearms in US homes as a risk factor for unintentional gunshot fatality
- Author:
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Wiebe, Douglas J.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Accident Analysis & Prevention
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Ownership, Public Health, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Injury, household firearm, risk factor, risk of death
In this matched case-control study, the author examined the association between relative risk of death by an unintentional gunshot and having firearms in the home, using data from the National Mortality...
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+ Injury Mortality Among American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Youth--United States, 1989-1998
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-
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Homicide, Public Health, Suicide, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Alaska, Mortality, Suicide, firearm
This CDC report presents a summary of analysis of injury mortality data by Indian Health Service (IHS) administrative area and by race/ ethnicity, using mortality data from CDC’s National Center for Health...
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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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+ 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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+ They're too smart for that: predicting what children would do in the presence of guns
- Author:
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Connor, S. M. / Wesolowski, K. L.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Pediatrics
- Topics:
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Age Group, State, Storage, Urban/Rural
- Keywords:
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Children, gun
The authors examined parents’ beliefs about how children would react to finding guns, using a randomized telephone survey of Northeast Ohio residents and focusing on the 317 urban and 311 rural respondents...
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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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+ The relationship between health risk behaviors and fear in one urban seventh grade class
- Author:
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Dowdell, E. B. / Santucci, M. E.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- J Pediatr Nurs
- Topics:
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Age Group, Alcohol, Gun Carrying, Mental Health, Students, Urban/Rural
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Behavior, Fear, risk factor
In this descriptive study, the authors used Youth Risk Behaviors Surveillance System Questionnaire (YRBSS) to collect information about health risk behaviors, unintentional and intentional injury from...
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+ Self-report weapon possession in school and patterns of early adolescent adjustment in rural african american youth
- Author:
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Estell, D. B. / Farmer, T. W. / Cairns, B. D. / Clemmer, J. T.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol
- Topics:
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Age Group, Ethnicity, Gender, Gun Carrying, Urban/Rural
- Keywords:
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African American, Youth, aggression, risk factor, weapon carrier
The authors examined weapon carrying in school among rural African American youth, selecting a sample of 345 (189 boys, 156 girls) sixth-grade children from the two poorest counties in a Southern state...
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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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