Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PREFACE
  • SUMMARY
  • Focus of this research project
  • Perceptions that might influence gun- related behaviors
  • Each set of perceptions could lead to a different policy
  • Methodology
  • Structure of the survey
  • Demographics
  • Most of the youth were in gangs, but many expressed intent to get out
  • Delinquent acts
  • Exposure to community-level violence
  • Personal and vicarious victimization
  • Justifications for gun use
  • Perceived choice to carry a gun
  • Justifications for carrying a gun
  • Negative future expectations
  • Expectations of future gun victimization.
  • Protection from victimization
  • Perceived aversion to probation or incarceration
  • Positive future expectations
  • The scenario
  • Values and choices under scenario assumptions
  • Average perceived risks under scenario assumptions
  • Sensitivity to context
  • Characteristics of shooters
  • Shooters endorse more justifications to shoot
  • Shooters predict a future they cannot control
  • Not unaware of future consequences
  • Complex influence of friends
  • Concluding observations.