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EDITORIAL OMICIDE AND SUICIDE are the second- and tervene to reduce juvenile gun violence, it is important third-leading causes of death for youths to understand what motivates youths at 3 key points in between the ages of 15 and 19 years. the chain of events that precedes almost every shooting: Rates of homicide of and by juveniles first, the decision to acquire a handgun; second, the de- H soared between 1984 and 1993 but have cision to carry it; and finally, the decision to use it. since declined. This surge was almost entirely due to a In this issue of the ARCHIVES, Freed and col- striking increase in gun homicides, particularly among leagues approach the first 2 of these 3 decision points young African American men. The rise in firearm homi- in a novel way. Rather than studying why some youths cides that occurred during this period was paralleled by choose to carry handguns, they studied why most choose an equally dramatic increase in gun carrying by adoles- not to. Their findings are derived from individual inter- cent males. About a third of high school boys who par- views with a convenience sample of detained adoles- ticipated in the
JAMA Pediatrics – American Medical Association
Published: Mar 1, 2001
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