Citation

Rowan ZR, Schubert CA, Loughran TA, Mulvey EP, Pardini DA. Law Hum. Behav. 2019; 43(3): 250-262.

Affiliation

School of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Arizona State University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/lhb0000327

PMID

30998029

Abstract

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).

Language: en