Regular ArticleAdolescents carrying handguns and taking them to school: psychosocial correlates among public school students in Illinois
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2011, Journal of AdolescenceCitation Excerpt :The contagion effect suggests that inflated perceptions of peer gun carrying may, in turn, lead to additional gun carrying. Many studies have examined risk factors for youth gun carrying (Cook & Ludwig, 2004; Hayes & Hemenway, 1999; Hayes & Sege, 2003; Hemenway et al., 1996; Kacanek & Hemenway, 2006; Lane, Cunningham, & Ellen, 2004; Leeb, Barker, & Strine, 2007; Lizotte, Krohn, Howell, Tobin, & Howard, 2000; Loeber, Burke, Mutchka, & Lahey, 2004; Molnar, Miller, Azrael, & Buka, 2004; Sheley & Wright, 1995; Simon, Richardson, Dent, Chou, & Flay, 1998; Steinman & Zimmerman, 2003; Wilkinson et al., 2009; Williams, Mulhall, Reis, & DeVille, 2002), but no study that we know of has examined possible peer misperceptions about the level of youth gun carrying or the effects of any such misperception on the probability of youth carrying guns. The current study examines risk factors for gun carrying among high school students in Boston.
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2009, Aggression and Violent BehaviorCitation Excerpt :An important consequence of a ‘culture’ of weapon carrying is the perception by an individual that many of their peers are carrying weapons. Bailey et al. (1997) and Williams, Mulhall, Reis, and DeVille (2002) found that one of the best predictors for weapon carrying was the perception that others were carrying weapons. Williams et al. (2002) investigated handgun carrying among 22,000 6th, 8th, and 10th grade students in Illinois.
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