%0 Journal Article
%T Weapon-carrying and youth violence
%J Adolescence
%D 1997
%A Page, R. M.
%A Hammermeister, J.
%V 32
%N 127
%P 505-513
%X Weapons, and firearms in particular, are widely available in the United States and are at the heart of youth violence. Many schools and communities throughout the nation have identified weapon-carrying among youth as a substantial health, educational, and social problem. In fact, one of the national health objectives for the year 2000 is to substantially reduce the incidence of weapon-carrying among adolescents. This paper reviews the prevalence of weapon-carrying by youth, reasons they carry weapons, ways that firearms are obtained, firearms and violence (especially youth violence), and the controlling of weapons in schools.
%G 
%I Libra Publishers
%@ 0001-8449
%U http://dx.doi.org/