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Gun Carrying by High School Students in Boston, MA: Does Overestimation of Peer Gun Carrying Matter?
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Direct linkHemenway, David; Vriniotis, Mary; Johnson, Renee M.; Miller, Matthew; Azrael, Deborah – Journal of Adolescence, 2011
This paper investigates: (1) whether high school students overestimate gun carrying by their peers, and (2) whether those students who overestimate peer gun carrying are more likely to carry firearms. Data come from a randomly sampled survey conducted in 2008 of over 1700 high school students in Boston, MA. Over 5% of students reported carrying a…
Descriptors: Weapons, Marketing, Youth, High School Students
