Citation

May DC. Youth Soc. 1999; 31(1): 100-127.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0044118X99031001005

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study assesses the impact of fear of criminal victimization on juvenile firearm possession at school, while controlling for variables in Hirschi's social bond theory and a derivative of Sutherland's differential association theory. Using responses from a sample of approximately 8,000 public high school students in a southeastern state, this research highlights a statistically significant association between adolescents' fear of criminal victimization and their firearm possession at school, even after controlling for the aforementioned explanations of crime.