TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Weapon-carrying and youth violence
JO  - Adolescence
A1  - Page, R. M.
A1  - Hammermeister, J.
SP  - 505
EP  - 513
VL  - 32
IS  - 127
N2  - 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.
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SN  - 0001-8449
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -