Open AccessProximal predictors of gun violence among adolescent males involved in crime.
Author(s) -
Z. Rowan,
Carol A. Schubert,
Thomas A. Loughran,
Edward P. Mulvey,
Dustin Pardini
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
law and human behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.432
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1573-661X
pISSN - 0147-7307
DOI - 10.1037/lhb0000327
Subject(s) - psycinfo , psychology , poison control , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , suicide prevention , legal psychology , gun violence , salience (neuroscience) , longitudinal study , occupational safety and health , criminology , social psychology , clinical psychology , medical emergency , medicine , political science , medline , pathology , law , cognitive psychology
The growing public health and legal concerns regarding gun violence has led to a call for research that investigates risk factors for gun violence across a variety of domains. Individual and sociocontextual risk factors have been associated with violence more broadly, and in some instances gun-carrying, however no prior research has investigated the role of these factors in explaining gun violence using longitudinal data. The current study utilized a subsample (N = 161) from the Pathways to Desistance Study, which is a longitudinal sample of serious adolescent offenders to evaluate interindividual and intraindividual differences in relevant risk factors of gun violence. Results suggest that there are a few key proximal individual-level and sociocontextual predictors for gun violence, including witnessing nongun violence, future orientation, and perceived personal rewards to crime. Findings demonstrate the salience of exposure to violence in contributing to gun violence and identify levers of action for public policy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).