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Carrying Weapons at School: Prevalence and Associated Factors in Colombian High-School Students
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Jiménez-Villamizar, María P.; Campo-Arias, Adalberto; Caballero-Domínguez, Carmen C. – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
The purpose of this study is to identify the prevalence and factors associated with weapon carrying in Colombian high-school students. A cross-sectional study was designed to analyze this phenomenon among students aged between 13 and 17 years. A sample of 1462 students participated, 18.46% of which reported having planned suicide, 56.16% reported…
Descriptors: Weapons, Incidence, High School Students, Marijuana
Frequency of Guns in the Households of High School Seniors
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Coker, Ann L.; Bush, Heather M.; Follingstad, Diane R.; Brancato, Candace J. – Journal of School Health, 2017
Background: In 2013, President Obama lifted the federal ban on gun violence research. The current study provides one of the first reports to estimate household gun ownership as reported by youth. Methods: In this cohort study of 3,006 high school seniors from 24 schools, we examined the frequency of household guns ownership. Results: About 65%…
Descriptors: Incidence, Weapons, Family Environment, High School Seniors
Variations in Wounding by Relationship Intimacy in Homicide Cases
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Trojan, Carrie; Krull, Amy C. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
There are numerous examples in the homicide literature of a presumed connection between the victim-offender relationship and the manner, extent, and body location of wounds inflicted in homicides. The current study examined variations in wounding patterns according to the intimacy of the victim-offender relationship in a sample of urban homicides…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Intimacy, Victims of Crime, Homicide
Intimate Partner Violence at the Scene: Incident Characteristics and Implications for Public Health Surveillance
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Joshi, Manisha; Sorenson, Susan B. – Evaluation Review, 2010
Using data that, to our knowledge, have not been used before for this purpose, we examined 9,231 opposite-sex intimate partner violence (IPV) calls for law enforcement assistance recorded in the Compstat system of a large U.S. city. Although women were the predominant victims, injuries were documented more often for men. Only about 1% of incidents…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Public Health, Law Enforcement, Intimacy
Views of Intimate Partner Violence in Same- and Opposite-Sex Relationships
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Sorenson, Susan B.; Thomas, Kristie A. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2009
Attitudes toward same-sex intimate relationships and intimate partner violence (IPV) are changing. Little research, however, has examined norms about IPV in same-sex relationships. Using a fractional factorial (experimental vignette) design, we conducted random-digit-dialed interviews in four languages with 3,679 community-residing adults.…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Intimacy, Family Violence, Attitude Change
Patterns of Partners' Abusive Behaviors as Reported by Latina and Non-Latina Survivors
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Glass, Nancy; Perrin, Nancy; Hanson, Ginger; Mankowski, Eric; Bloom, Tina; Campbell, Jacquelyn – Journal of Community Psychology, 2009
This study builds on the existing knowledge of risk factors for lethal intimate partner violence (IPV) and typologies of IPV abusers by exploring patterns of abusive partners' behaviors among known risk factors for intimate partner femicide (i.e., murder of women) and determines if groups of survivors with similar patterns of abusive behaviors…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Harassment, Females, Hispanic Americans