Neighborhood collective efficacy and environmental exposure to firearm homicide among a national sample of adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Living near an incident of firearm violence can negatively impact youth, regardless of whether the violence is experienced firsthand. Inequities in household and neighborhood resources may affect the prevalence and consequences of exposure across racial/ethnic groups.

Findings

Using data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study and the Gun Violence Archive, we estimate that approximately 1 in 4 adolescents in large US cities lived within 800 m (0.5 miles) of a past-year firearm homicide during 2014-17. Exposure risk decreased as household income and neighborhood collective efficacy increased, though stark racial/ethnic inequities remained. Across racial/ethnic groups, adolescents in poor households in moderate or high collective efficacy neighborhoods

SUBMITTER: Aubel AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10251689 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature