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Direct linkPrice, James H.; Khubchandani, Jagdish – American Journal of Health Education, 2017
Background: The United States has more than 90% of all youth firearm deaths that occur in high-income countries. Purpose: We summarize the epidemiological literature on the prevalence, risk factors, and protective factors associated with adolescent homicides and suicides and the role of firearms in the loss of these lives. Methods: A systematic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Homicide, Suicide, Weapons
Muftic, Lisa R.; Baumann, Miranda L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Femicide, the murder of females (most often at the hands of males), is an understudied area in homicide research. Furthermore, femicide perpetrated by females has been all but ignored. One reason this may be is because of the rarity of homicide victimization perpetrated by females. Rather, most homicide incidents consist of a male offender and a…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Victims of Crime, Homicide
DeLisi, Matt; Walters, Glenn D. – Crime & Delinquency, 2011
Prisonization (as measured by number of prior incarcerations) and concurrent instrumental offending (as measured by contemporaneous kidnapping, rape, robbery, and burglary offenses) were found to interact in 160 multiple-homicide offenders and 494 single-homicide offenders. Controlling for age, gender, race, criminal history, prior incarcerations,…
Descriptors: Violence, Homicide, Criminals, Correctional Institutions
Download full textRobers, Simone; Zhang, Anlan; Morgan, Rachel E. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
Our nation's schools should be safe havens for teaching and learning, free of crime and violence. Any instance of crime or violence at school not only affects the individuals involved, but also may disrupt the educational process and affect bystanders, the school itself, and the surrounding community (Brookmeyer, Fanti, and Henrich 2006;…
Descriptors: Crime, School Safety, National Surveys, Violence
Felson, Richard B.; Pare, Paul-Philippe – Social Forces, 2010
We use the National Violence against Women (and Men) Survey to examine the effects of region and race on the tendency to carry weapons for protection. We find that Southern and Western whites are much more likely than Northern whites to carry guns for self-protection, controlling for their risk of victimization. The difference between Southern and…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, Females, Whites
Wu, Bohsiu – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
This study tests two competing hypotheses regarding the social structural dynamics of intimate homicide: backlash versus collective efficacy. This study also examines the role of race in how social factors specified in each hypothesis affect intimate homicide. Data are from the California Vital Statistics and Homicide Data, 1990-1999. Results from…
Descriptors: Homicide, Adolescents, Racial Differences, Asian Americans
Salloum, Alison – Research on Social Work Practice, 2008
Objective: This pilot study evaluated a group intervention designed to reduce posttraumatic stress among children after homicide and/or violence. Method: Employing a secondary data analysis of 117 participants in 21 group interventions, pretest and posttest differences in posttraumatic stress levels and between child witnesses and nonwitnesses,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Homicide, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Pretests Posttests
Snyder, Howard N.; Sickmund, Melissa – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2006
This report presents comprehensive information on juvenile crime, violence, and victimization and on the juvenile justice system. This report brings together the latest available statistics from a variety of sources and includes numerous tables, graphs, and maps, accompanied by analyses in clear, nontechnical language. The report offers Congress,…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Individual Characteristics, At Risk Persons, Poverty
