School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University.
School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh.
Law Hum Behav. 2019 Jun;43(3):250-262. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000327. Epub 2019 Apr 18.
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).
越来越多的公众健康和法律问题关注枪支暴力，这导致了对枪支暴力在各种领域的风险因素的研究呼吁。个体和社会背景风险因素与更广泛的暴力行为有关，在某些情况下还与持枪行为有关，但以前没有研究使用纵向数据调查这些因素在解释枪支暴力方面的作用。本研究利用了“戒除途径研究”（Pathways to Desistance Study）的一个子样本（N=161），该研究是对严重青少年罪犯的一项纵向样本，以评估枪支暴力相关风险因素的个体间和个体内差异。结果表明，存在一些关键的近期个体水平和社会背景预测因素与枪支暴力有关，包括目睹非枪支暴力、未来取向以及对犯罪的个人收益感知。研究结果表明，接触暴力对枪支暴力的发生有一定影响，并确定了公共政策的行动重点。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
