Guns, Violence, and Identity Among African American and Latino Youth

Policing guns and youth violence.

To combat the epidemic of youth gun violence in the 1980s and 1990s, law enforcement agencies across the United States adopted a variety of innovative strategies. This article presents case studies of eight cities' efforts to police gun crime. Some cities emphasized police-citizen partnerships to address youth violence, whereas others focused on aggressive enforcement against youth suspected of...

Perceived discrimination and peer victimization among African American and Latino youth.

Perceptions of racial discrimination constitute significant risks to the psychological adjustment of minority youth. The present study examined the relationship between perceived racial discrimination and peer nominations of victimization among 173 (55 % female) African American, European American and Latino youth. All respondents completed peer nominations of victimization status whereas the A...

How Living in the 'Hood Affects Risky Behaviors Among Latino and African American Youth

Exposure to community violence and social maladjustment among urban African American youth.

OBJECTIVE Because of the evidence that children living in inner city communities are chronically exposed to violence, the goal of the present study was to longitudinally explore the reciprocal and perpetuating relationship between exposure to violence and child social maladjustment. METHOD Participants were 268 African American students (M age = 11.65 years, 40% males and 60% females) from si...

Exposure to community violence and daily feeling states among urban African American youth.

This longitudinal study examined the relationships between exposure to community violence and daily feeling states among 175 6th- through 8th-grade African American students. The relationships were tested both cross-sectionally and longitudinally over the 3-year span. Four daily feeling state subscales: contented, hostile, anxious, and dysphoric were developed from a factor analysis of the 30 E...