Longitudinal predictions of young adults' weapons use and criminal behavior from their childhood exposure to violence.

ABSTRACT: In this study, we examine whether youth who are exposed to more weapons violence are subsequently more likely to behave violently with weapons. We use data collected with a 3-cohort, 4-wave, 10-year longitudinal study of 426 high-risk youth from Flint, Michigan, who were second, fourth, or ninth-graders in 2006-2007. The data were obtained from individual interviews with the youth, their parents, and their teachers, from archival school and criminal justice records, and from geo-coded criminal offense data. These data show that early exposure to weapons violence significantly correlates at modest levels with weapon carrying, weapon use or threats-to-use, arrests for weapons use, and criminally violent acts 10 years later. Multiple regression analyses, controlling for children's initial agg

SUBMITTER: Huesmann LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8784960 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature