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Lolita Moss; Lexie M. Contreras; Tian Shu; Katherine P. Theall; Julia M. Fleckman; Samantha Francois – Youth & Society, 2024
Rates of youth firearm exposure and carriage are well-established, but less work has examined how exposure to police violence and firearm violence, as victim or witness, may be associated with beliefs in gun ownership for society or access to guns. This study used survey data from a multiracial sample of 276 youth living in New Orleans, Louisiana…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, Police, Victims
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Cassandra K. Crifasi; Rachel J. Topazian; Alex D. McCourt; Stephen N. Oliphant; April M. Zeoli; Katrina S. Kennedy; Elizabeth D. Wagner; Mitchell L. Doucette – Youth & Society, 2024
Research on firearm purchaser licensing laws has found population level reductions in firearm-related mortality. Limited research has been conducted specifically examining the impact of these laws among adolescents and emerging adults. We obtained death data from the National Center for Health Statistics from 1990 to 2019. We generated state-year…
Descriptors: Weapons, Homicide, Suicide, Death
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Patrick Rafail – Youth & Society, 2024
Between 2014 and 2018, at least 974 youth were fatally shot by the police. Racial disparities in fatal police shootings (FPS) have been well-established in existing research, but less attention has been paid to patterns in fatal police encounters with youth. This study uses a multisource and externally validated research design to track cases of…
Descriptors: Weapons, Death, Police, Police Community Relationship
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Esther Lee; Sarah M. Stilwell; Heather Murphy; Shiying Mai; Justin Heinze – Youth & Society, 2024
Firearm-related violence is the leading cause of death for adolescents and can have lifelong ramifications, including to one's mental health and well-being. Through a scoping review of existing literature published since 1980, the current study describes nuanced pathways through which exposure to firearm violence (direct or indirect) can…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Adolescents
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Daniel B. Lee; Philip Stallworth; Rebecca M. Cunningham; Maureen A. Walton; Enrique W. Neblett; Patrick M. Carter – Youth & Society, 2024
Youth interpersonal firearm violence disproportionately affects Black youth, with residential racial segregation as a key determinant. Racially segregated neighborhoods, which are economically isolated (e.g., neighborhood disadvantage), are linked to increased exposure to violence. This exposure, in turn, is a determinant of youth firearm…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Weapons, Aggression, Neighborhoods
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Elizabeth H. Weybright; Ashley Hall; Jessica Willoughby; Kimberly Dalve; Julia Schleimer; Alice Ellyson; Cassandra Watters; Emma Gause; Margaret R. Kuklinski; Gary Varrella; Ali Rowhani-Rahbar – Youth & Society, 2024
Rural adolescents are at risk for firearm-related injury and death. In response, professional organizations have called for communication between adolescents, parents, and providers about firearms. A shared understanding of firearms between providers and families can facilitate effectiveness of health interventions. However, few studies engage…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Adolescents, Weapons, Safety
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Oliphant, Stephen N. – Youth & Society, 2023
Much of the existing research on adolescent firearm and weapon carrying lacks a theoretical framework. Relatedly, few studies have examined the relationship between weapon carrying and bullying victimization experienced at school, which has been established as a key strain in adolescence. The present study seeks to provide a partial test of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Weapons, Grade 7
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Terri N. Sullivan; Katherine M. Ross; Kelly E. O'Connor; Colleen S. Walsh; Diane Bishop – Youth & Society, 2024
This study identified risk, promotive, and protective factors for handgun carriage among 265 primarily African American adolescents (M[subscript age] = 14.3) living in low-income urban areas. Community-based violent victimization and witnessing violence and in-person and cyber forms of peer victimization increased the probability of handgun…
Descriptors: African American Children, Adolescents, Weapons, Violence
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Pusch, Natasha – Youth & Society, 2022
School delinquency in public elementary, middle, and high schools has decreased in recent years, but is still a major issue that has negative mental health and academic implications for adolescents. Although research has focused on both individual-level and school-level explanations of school delinquency, it is not yet clear which macro-level…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Crime
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Eugenio Weigend Vargas; Cynthia Ewell Foster; Sasha Mintz; Heather A. Hartman; Laura Seewald; Rebeccah Sokol; Peter F. Ehrlich; Patrick M. Carter; Jason E. Goldstick – Youth & Society, 2024
Firearm suicides among adolescents have increased in the US and rates vary across racial and ethnic groups. In this study, we examined contextual information around adolescent firearm suicides and analyzed how incident characteristics vary across racial and ethnic groups. We analyzed firearm suicides among adolescents (ages 10-18 years) from 2004…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Weapons, Suicide, Racial Differences
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Shamserad, Faraneh – Youth & Society, 2023
Although school violence statistics indicate that schools are safe places, anxiety over school shootings continues to influence school safety reform to the extent that security measures in American public schools include the arming of schoolteachers. Furthermore, not only have youths' perceptions of school security been relatively unexplored,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Blacks, White Students, African American Students
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Perkins, Jessica M.; Perkins, H. Wesley; Craig, David W. – Youth & Society, 2019
This study explores misperceptions about peer norms in support of telling authorities about weapons at school and whether perceptions predict personal support for telling authorities. Anonymous surveys were conducted among youth in 30 schools (Grades 5-12) in six states (n = 12,903) between 2006 and 2014. Personal support for telling principals,…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Student Attitudes, Peer Relationship, Norms
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Vogel, Matt; Barton, Michael S. – Youth & Society, 2013
Impulsivity holds a central place in the explanations of adolescent delinquency. Recent research suggests that neighborhood characteristics, particularly SES (socioeconomic status), perceived supervision, and collective efficacy, moderate the association between impulsivity and delinquency. However, findings to date have been equivocal, and the…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Delinquency, Adolescents
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Watkins, Adam M.; Lizotte, Alan J. – Youth & Society, 2013
The aim of this research is to assess if home firearm access increases the risk of nonfatal suicidal attempts among adolescents. Such a gun focus has largely been limited to case-control studies on completed suicides. This line of research has found that household gun access increases the risk of suicide due to features of available firearms…
Descriptors: Weapons, Risk, Suicide, Self Destructive Behavior
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Dukes, Richard L.; Stein, Judith A. – Youth & Society, 2011
We examined correlates and predictive associations of tattoos and body piercings among 1,462 Colorado students in grades 9 to 12. More boys (19%) than girls (17%) reported tattoos, but more girls (42%) than boys (16%) reported piercings (earlobes not included). Older students reported more body modification. Structural equation models showed that…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Adolescents, High School Students, Gender Differences
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