How Delinquent Youths Acquire Guns: Initial Versus Most Recent Gun Acquisitions

Webster, Daniel

doi:10.1093/jurban/79.1.60

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“…2,11 Weapons of interest included mace, club or stick, knife and gun. Questions were asked pertaining to the types of weapons girls ever carry, the frequency (Falways,_ Foften,_ Fsometimes_ or Fnever_) with which they carry weapons in general, and how often they carry weapons, including guns, when they are at school.…”

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“…1 Guns in the hands of youth pose a major threat to urban health and safety. 2 Most research has focused on male youth, leaving gaps in knowledge about how and to what extent girls obtain, carry and use weapons, including firearms. The largely untested assumption has been that even when young women are violent, they are less likely than their male counterparts to resort to guns, knives or other weapons, preferring verbal and physical fights.…”

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Girls and Weapons: An International Study of the Perpetration of Violence

Erickson

Butters²,

Cousineau³

et al. 2006

J Urban Health

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The purpose of this study was to describe delinquent girls' weapons preferences and where and how often they carried weapons and to identify the most important factors that explained four different weapon-related violent outcomes. A large, high-risk sample of female adolescents consisting of 510 girls aged 14-17 in four cities were interviewed using the same questionnaire and methods. Tabular and logistic regression analyses were applied. Knives emerged as the most frequently reported weapon in all cities. Rates of both lifetime victimization and perpetration of violence with weapons were high in all sites. Starting to carry a weapon as a result of violence was reported by 40% of the girls in Toronto, 28% in Philadelphia, 25% in Amsterdam, and 16% in Montreal. The major predictors of weapon perpetrated violent behaviours included ethnic origin, early onset of delinquent activities, participation in delinquent acts in the past 12 months, gang fighting and carrying a weapon as a result of violence. Site, age and heavy alcohol consumption had a minor impact, and drug use, drug selling, and neighborhood features, none. Despite numerous differences in weapons' prevalence across cities, the logistic regression found that site was only significant in use of an object (Toronto) and not significant in threatening or hurting someone with either a knife or a gun or actually hurting others with a weapon. These findings suggest commonality in serious female violence that extends beyond borders and cultures.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Girls and Weapons: An International Study of the Perpetration of Violence

Erickson

Butters²,

Cousineau³

et al. 2006

J Urban Health

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“…That firearms may be obtained through opportunistic or well-planned sequences was most thoroughly examined by Webster, Freed, Frattaroli, and Wilson, in their qualitative research with 45 randomly selected youths aged 14-18 years old in a residential justice facility in Maryland [17]. Findings from this study orient us extensively on the learning patterns and adaptations that consumers experience in the illegal market.…”

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Assessing network patterns in illegal firearm markets

Morselli

2011

Crime Law Soc Change

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This study presents the results from a qualitative survey of 20 incarcerated and nonincarcerated illicit firearm market consumers in Quebec. Its general aim is to identify key acquisition patterns for illegal firearms. The interview sessions confirmed several general patterns emerging from past research. Illegal firearm acquisitions generally took place through informal channels. Opportunistic transactions were prevalent across all respondents' experiences. The presence of key point sources were discussed across the interviews, but to a much lesser extent than the high volume of friends, family members, and close contacts who were more likely to supply firearms. Point sources, and particularly those operating off Native reserves near Montreal, were also more difficult to access for inexperienced acquirers. That such reputed suppliers were not as prevalent across respondents' experiences was not simply due to the difficulties to access them, but largely because respondents were already well exposed to a variety of channels for acquiring firearms. An analysis of respondents' personal networks revealed that only a few respondents had closed networks that were limited in suppliers and that most were able to acquire illegal firearms through open or brokered networks that put them into contact with a multitude of suppliers (in open networks) or a reliable set of intermediaries (in brokered networks). This was the case for both free and incarcerated respondents in the sample. That open and brokered networks were more prominent suggests that even if key point sources are removed from the market by law-enforcement efforts, consumers will be able to adjust rather quickly by turning to any of the channels that are accessible to them.

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“…In addition, most prior research with adolescents has been based on specialized samples such as high school students (e.g., Callahan & Rivara, 1992;Kulig, Valentine, Griffith, & Ruthazer, 1998) or incarcerated juveniles (e.g., Webster, Freed, Frattaroli, & Wilson, 2002;Sheley & Wright, 1995), typically from a single, often urban, locale (e.g., Lizotte, Tesoriero, Thornberry, & Krohn, 1994;Vaughan et al, 1996). To our knowledge, there has been only one survey of a representative sample of community-residing adolescents that asks adolescents and adults of the same household about guns in the home.…”

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“WE'VE GOT A GUN?”: comparing reports of adolescents and their parents about household firearms

Sorenson

Cook

2007

Journal Community Psychology

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Firearms are a leading cause of mortality among adolescents, and the guns that adolescents use to harm themselves or others often come from their own homes. In this statewide, multi-language, community-based survey of 5,704 co-residing pairs of adolescents and their parents, we asked about guns in the home and compared their responses. The proportions of parents and adolescents responding affirmatively were similar: 25.7% and 26.8%, respectively, for any guns; 15.0% and 13.2%, respectively, for handguns. A paired analysis documented substantial agreement for whether there was any gun in the home and less agreement about whether there was a handgun in the home. The amount of agreement and disagreement was related to household composition and gender of the respondents. The disagreement was substantial for some groups (e.g., when boys residing in households containing a single mother and no other adults reported that there was a gun in the home, 64.8% of their mothers said that there was not a gun in the home). Implications for research and intervention are discussed. Firearms are a leading cause of mortality among adolescents, and the guns that adolescents use to

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How Delinquent Youths Acquire Guns: Initial Versus Most Recent Gun Acquisitions

Cited by 41 publications

References 11 publications

Girls and Weapons: An International Study of the Perpetration of Violence

Girls and Weapons: An International Study of the Perpetration of Violence

Assessing network patterns in illegal firearm markets

“WE'VE GOT A GUN?”: comparing reports of adolescents and their parents about household firearms

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