J Clin Child Psychol 2000

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J Clin Child Psychol 2000 Sep;29(3):432-42

Patterns and correlates of gun ownership among nonmetropolitan and rural middle school students.

Cunningham PB, Henggeler SW, Limber SP, Melton GB, Nation MA

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA. cunninpb@musc.edu

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Examined prevalence of gun ownership and the links among gun ownership, reasons for gun ownership, and antisocial behavior in a sample of nonmetropolitan and rural middle school students. Participants completed the Questionnaire for Students (Olweus, 1995) and included 6,263 students from 36 elementary and middle schools, of whom most were African American (range = 46%-95% per school). Reasons for gun ownership were strongly associated with rates of antisocial behavior. Youths who owned guns for sporting reasons reported rates of antisocial behavior that were only slightly higher than those reported by youths who did not own guns. Youths who owned guns to gain respect or to frighten others reported extremely high rates of antisocial behavior. These high-risk adolescent gun owners were likely to come from families of high-risk gun owners, associate with friends who were high-risk gun owners, and engage in high rates of bullying behavior. Findings suggest that effective violence prevention programs must target high-risk youths, address risk factors that go beyond individual settings, and address a comprehensive array of risk factors.

PMID: 10969427, UI: 20425520


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You could find the whole article at a college library probably.

As far as the finding, it makes perfect sense. When you look at gun crime among
different groups, you find that gun crime has been steady or gone done over the years in the nonurban, ghetto, drug war populations.

It has increased in the drug war populations.
Thus, you would expect that these kids who live in that environment and socialed that way would have such feelings.

This split in the gun crime data has been known for a long time. It has been generally ignored by the media and anti-politicians.

So this isn't really a gun slam as it points out that social causes are much more important than mere gun presence for criminal usage and I suppose antisocial thoughts.

Used to deal with kids years ago and follow this stuff.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Youths who owned guns for sporting reasons reported rates of antisocial behavior that were only slightly higher than those reported by youths who did not own guns.[/quote]

"Only slighter higher". I think it's more likely "lower", but it kind of ties in to what we've been saying for decades.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Youths who owned guns to gain respect or to frighten others reported extremely high rates of antisocial behavior.[/quote]

Umm...duh. "Frightening others" with a gun is an antisocial behavior.

LawDog



[This message has been edited by LawDog (edited September 18, 2000).]
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Examined prevalence of gun ownership and the links among gun ownership, reasons for gun ownership, and antisocial behavior in a sample of nonmetropolitan and rural middle school students. Participants completed the Questionnaire for Students (Olweus, 1995) and included 6,263 students from 36 elementary and middle schools, of whom most were African American (range = 46%-95% per school).[/quote]

Something is odd here. There is an over-representation of African American kids in this study, yet the study purports to evaluate a sample of nonmetropolitan and rural schools, which I would think would be predominantly white.

They also don't seem to control for economic factors in the kids families, or other factors such as a possible disproportionate number of single-parent households in the "anti-social" cohort.
 
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