Youth Violence
- Firearm Violence Among High-Risk Emergency Department Youth After an Assault or Injury (2015)
- Precious Lives Project (2015)
- Youth Gun Violence Fact Sheet (2013)
- First Time Gun Carrying and the Primary Prevention of Youth Gun Violence for African American Youth Living in Extreme Poverty (2012)
- Product-Oriented Approaches to Reducing Youth Gun Violence (2012)
- Effects of Baltimore's Safe Streets Program on Gun Violence: A Replication of Chicago's Ceasefire Program (2012)
- A Community-Based Systems Learning Approach to Understanding Youth Violence in Boston (2011)
- Gun Carrying By High School Students in Boston -- Does Overestimation of Peer Gun Carrying Matter (2011)
- Specifying the Role of Exposure to Violence and Violent Behavior on Initiation of Gun Carrying (2011)
- Gun Violence Among School-Age Youth in Chicago (2009)
- Carrying Weapons to School for Protection -- An Analysis of the 2001 School Crime Supplement Data (2008)
- New Children's Defense Fund Report Shows Children and Teen Firearm Deaths Increase for First Time Since 1994 (2008)
- Patterns of Gun Acquisition, Carrying, and Use Among Juvenile and Adult Arrestees -- Evidence from a High-Crime City (2008)
- The Recent Surge in Homicides Involving Young Black Males and Guns -- Time to Reinvest in Prevention and Crime Control (2008)
- Kids with Guns -- How Agencies Have Made Strides to Get Guns Out of the Hands of Juveniles (2006)
- Reducing Gun Violence -- Community Problem Solving in Atlanta (2006)
- Anticipating the Future Based on Analysis of the Past -- Intercity Variation in Youth Homicide, 1984-2006
- The Baltimore Youth Ammunition Initiative -- A Model Application of Local Public Health Authority in Preventing Gun Violence (2005)
- Successful Public Policy Change in California -- Firearms and Youth Resources (2005)
- The Supply and Demand for Guns to Juveniles -- Oakland's Gun Tracing Project (2005)
- Youth and Gun Violence -- The Outstanding Case for Prevention (2005)
- The Dynamics of Deterrence -- Youth Gun Violence in Portland (2004)
- Serious Youth Gun Offenders and the Epidemic of Youth Violence in Boston (2003)
- How Delinquent Youths Acquire Guns -- Initial Versus Most Recent Gun Acquisitions (2002)
- Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative Report (2000)
- Fighting Juvenile Gun Violence (2000)
- General Findings -- Local Illegal Firearms Markets (1997)
- National Conference on Juvenile Justice Records -- Appropriate Criminal and Noncriminal Justice Uses (1997)
- National Evaluation of the Youth Firearms Violence Initiative (1997)
- The Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative and Related Local Initiatives (1997)
- Youth Violence in Boston -- Gun Markets, Serious Youth Offenders, and a Use-Reduction Strategy (1996)
- National Process Evaluation of Operation Weed and Seed (1996)
- Reducing Youth Gun Violence -- An Overview of Programs and Initiatives (1996)
- Handgun Sales, Beer Sales, and Youth Homicide, California, 1972-1993
Latest News
Contra Costa Crime lab leaves no gun or shell casing behind
Posted: August 15, 2018
Law enforcement departments across the country have access to the same system that Contra Costa has been using to catch the people committing gun crimes on its streets. It's known as the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, NIBIN for short, and it's maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. But NIBIN only works if police assiduously log all the casings they recover, and do so quickly, before trails grow ...
As Canada faces rising gun violence, tighter laws are a tough sell
Posted: August 15, 2018
Rising violence in Canada has prompted calls for the federal government to tighten gun laws but tougher regulations could cause a political backlash in a country where 2 million people are licensed to own a firearm. ...
Man Charged Despite Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws After Fatally Shooting Unarmed Man
Posted: August 15, 2018
Florida prosecutors filed a manslaughter charge on Monday against a white man who shot and killed an unarmed black man in a dispute over a parking space, three weeks after the local sheriff had refused to arrest the man, citing the state’s sweeping and controversial Stand Your Ground law. ...
The deadliest city: Behind Chicago’s segregated shooting sprees
Posted: August 14, 2018
While its homicide rate is not the highest in the U.S., Chicago has consistently had more total killings than any other U.S. city — with 27 people killed since the beginning of the month. Why it matters: Racial segregation, wealth inequality, gangs and the inability of law enforcement to solve crimes have fueled the gun violence epidemic — and a handful of minority, impoverished neighborhoods have received the brunt of the impact. ...
How red flag laws could help families grappling with guns and mental illness
Posted: August 9, 2018
While some states have ed flag laws that allow a judge to temporarily remove a mentally ill person's access to guns, it's not easy to balance their rights with the need for public safety. Special correspondent John Ferrugia of Rocky Mountain PBS reports on how families wish they could have been more empowered to help ailing loved ones and prevent deadly violence. ...
