Gun-Related Violence in and Around Inner-City Schools

The Epidemiology of Adolescent Homicide in North Carolina From 1990 to 1995

“…[32][33][34][35] Research and interventions are appropriate at both the proximate (family, church, and community) and societal (policies and programs related to firearm safety; illegal drugs; violence in professional sports and in the media; educational, training, and employment opportunities; and racial equality) levels. 9 A multidisciplinary approach to adolescent violence prevention will require cooperation and collaboration from multiple sectors of the society, which should include family-, church-, and community-based interventions.…”

Prospective psychosocial, interpersonal, and behavioral predictors of handgun carrying among adolescents.

“…The current literature on the correlates of weapon carrying is limited to cross-sectional data, and the majority of studies focus on the association between weapon carrying and participation in other problem behaviors such as selling and using drugs, gang membership, aggressive behavior, and school suspensions.9" [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] This study attempted to expand the understanding of handgun carrying among adolescents by (1) examining the predictive utility of several psychosocial/ interpersonal variables that are suggestive of problem proneness but have not been studied in relation to handgun carrying, (2) examining the strength of these associations by gender over a 3-year period, and (3) assessing students' exposure to neighborhood crime as an indication of the self-protection motivation for handgun carrying.…”

Weapon carrying among inner-city junior high school students: defensive behavior vs aggressive delinquency.

“…6,13,14 In the present study we assess the relationship between weapon carrying and a variety of personal factors hypothesized to be related to weapon carrying within a nonrandom sample of students attending two publicjunior high schools in Washington, DC. Weapon carrying was hypothesized to be a function of seven related factors: (1) first-and second-hand exposure to violence; (2) delinquent activities; (3) beliefs about the acceptability of hitting someone under certain conditions; (4) beliefs about the acceptability of shooting someone under certain conditions; (5) perceived peer support ofviolence; (6) As part of a larger study to evaluate the effects of a youth violence prevention program, baseline data were collected in two public junior high schools in Washington, DC. In school A, seventh-grade students enrolled in compulsory drug education classes were surveyed in the spring and fall of 1991.…”