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Youth & Society, Vol. 31, No. 1, 100-127 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0044118X99031001005

Scared Kids, Unattached Kids, or Peer Pressure

Why Do Students Carry Firearms to School?

DAVID C. MAY

Indiana University-Purdue University, Ft. Wayne

This study assesses the impact of fear of criminal victimization on juvenile firearm possession at school, while controlling for variables in Hirschi's social bond theory and a derivative of Sutherland's differential association theory. Using responses from a sample of approximately 8,000 public high school students in a southeastern state, this research highlights a statistically significant association between adolescents' fear of criminal victimization and their firearm possession at school, even after controlling for the aforementioned explanations of crime.


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