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Weapon Carrying Among Black Adolescents: a Social Network Perspective

Overview
Journal Am J Public Health
Specialty Public Health
Date 1997 Jun 1
PMID 9224193
Citations 7
Authors
G P Myers
G A McGrady
C Marrow
C W Mueller
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Abstract

Objectives: This report describes the salience of social networks to the phenomena of adolescent weapon carrying.

Methods: A random-walk network sampling design was used to survey 113 adolescents about topics, including weapon carrying.

Results: In a probability sample of 12- to 15-year-olds, 20.9% reported ever carrying a weapon. Carriers were eight times as likely as noncarriers to report weapon carrying by an older associate, and 19 times as likely to report weapon carrying by a peer. A significant dose-response effect was present.

Conclusions: This evidence supports the interpretation that modeling of weapon carrying by personal network members is important for its initiation and maintenance in adolescence.

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