Weapon carrying among inner-city junior high school students

Defensive behavior vs aggressive delinquency

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ID11036976
AutoresDaniel Webster (0000-0002-2180-3481, Johns Hopkins University), D W Webster, Patricia S Gainer (Johns Hopkins University), H R Champion (Johns Hopkins University)
Ano1993
Volume83
Fascículo11
Páginas1604-1608
Data de publicação1993-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditoraAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.83.11.1604
PMID8238686
OpenAlexW2064170644
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas37
Referências citadas6

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to estimate associations between beliefs and experiences hypothesized to be related to weapon carrying among youths. METHODS. Students in two inner-city junior high schools completed anonymous questionnaires. Logistic regression models were fit for having ever carried a weapon for protection or use in a fight and were stratified by sex and weapon type. RESULTS. Among males, 47% had carried knives and 25% had carried guns. Key risk factors for knife carrying were being threatened with a knife, getting into fights, and disbelief that having a weapon increases the carrier's risk of injury. Gun carrying was associated with having been arrested, knowing more victims of violence, starting fights, and being willing to justify shooting someone. Among females, 37% had carried a knife; knowing many victims of violence and being willing to justify shooting someone predicted knife carrying. CONCLUSIONS. Knife carrying was associated with aggressiveness but did not appear to be related to serious delinquency. Gun carrying within this nonrandom sample appeared to be a component of highly aggressive delinquency rather than a purely defensive behavior

Criminology · Environmental health · Injury prevention · Juvenile delinquency · Logistic regression · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Demography · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries