Episodic and persistent gun-carrying among urban African-American adolescents

Steinman, Kenneth J.; Zimmerman, Marc A.

doi:10.1016/s1054-139x(03)00022-3

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“…Selling drugs is often part of a more generalized pattern of risk behavior, as youths who sell drugs also tend to use them and may engage in vandalism, theft and violent behavior [10,12,13,14,15]. Several models may help explain why some youths engage in selling drugs above and beyond their involvement in a general pattern of risk behavior.…”

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Drug selling among high school students: Related risk behaviors and psychosocial characteristics

Steinman

2005

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Drug selling among high school students: Related risk behaviors and psychosocial characteristics

Steinman

2005

Journal of Adolescent Health

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“…For decades, criminologists have maintained that gun carrying is part of a risky lifestyle that exposes individuals to a range of adverse consequences (Blumstein, 1995;Lizotte & Bordua, 1980;Lizotte, Tesoriero, Thornberry, & Krohn, 1994;Steinman & Zimmerman, 2003). For example, Webster et al (1993) found that inner-city middle school students who were arrested, especially those arrested for drug charges, possessed a higher probability of carrying a firearm.…”

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Investigating the Relationship Between Gang Membership and Carrying a Firearm: Results from a National Sample

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While there is evidence that gang membership impacts an individual's gun carrying proclivities, existing research has largely focused only on males and at-risk youth. The present study investigates the role of gang membership, peer gang membership, and delinquency on whether individuals carry a firearm using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. Carrying a firearm was associated with involvement in delinquency, peer gang membership, and respondent gang membership. The association between gang membership and carrying a firearm weakened with age. Few significant differences across categories of sex and race emerged suggesting that the relationship between gang membership and carrying a firearm is equivocal across these groups.Keywords Gang membership . Gun carrying . Delinquency . ViolenceDespite documented decreases in rates of violent offending, gang-related violent crime remains a significant public concern. These issues are compounded by concerns around the use of firearms in the commission of these crimes. The FBI reported that in 2011 firearms were used in 68 % of murders, 41 % of robbery offenses and 21 % of aggravated assaults nationwide (FBI, 2012). According to the National Youth Gang Survey (NYGS), approximately 13 % of all homicides in the United States are gang- Am J Crim Just (2016) 41:168-184

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“…Participation in illegal drug markets as a drug seller has been linked to gun carrying [7][8][9][10][11] and gun ownership. 12 However, only a few studies 10 exploring the connections between drug selling and gun carrying have examined the diverse aspects of drug economy participation, such as the type of drug(s) sold, the duration of drug selling, or selling versus using drugs.…”

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Gun Carrying and Drug Selling Among Young Incarcerated Men and Women

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Hemenway

2006

J Urban Health

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This paper examines the relationship between illegal drug economy involvement, gun-related victimization, and recent gun carrying among young men and women incarcerated in a state prison in the United States. Interviews were conducted with 18-to 25-year old incarcerated men (n = 135) and women (n = 69) between July 1999 and October 2000. Forty-five percent of men and 16% of women reported carrying a gun in the year prior to incarceration. Respondents who sold crack cocaine or other drugs were more likely to have carried guns than those not selling drugs. However, hard drug use was not associated with gun carrying among men. All ten women who carried guns had used hard drugs. Sixty-seven percent of men and 28% of women had been shot at. Respondents who sold crack cocaine were at elevated risk of being shot at. Among men, selling crack (OR = 10.2, 95% CI = 2.5, 42.1) and ever being shot at (OR = 4.6, 95% CI = 1.7, 12.2), were associated with carrying guns. These findings provide further evidence of a link between crack selling (but not necessarily drug using) and gun carrying.

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Episodic and persistent gun-carrying among urban African-American adolescents

Cited by 78 publications

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Drug selling among high school students: Related risk behaviors and psychosocial characteristics

Drug selling among high school students: Related risk behaviors and psychosocial characteristics

Investigating the Relationship Between Gang Membership and Carrying a Firearm: Results from a National Sample

Gun Carrying and Drug Selling Among Young Incarcerated Men and Women

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