Gun Carrying and Drug Selling Among Young Incarcerated Men and Women

Kacanek, Deborah; Hemenway, David

doi:10.1007/s11524-005-9022-5

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“…Black and Ricardo (1994) find statistically significant correlations between weapon carrying, drug use, and drug trafficking. By comparison, Kacanek and Hemenway (2006) found that hard drug use was only associated with gun carrying among their female respondents. Despite these disparate findings, we find a remarkably high correlation between respondents who use and sell drugs or alcohol.…”

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Do Weapons Facilitate Adolescent Delinquency? An Examination of Weapon Carrying and Delinquency Among Adolescents

Emmert

Hall

Lizotte

2017

Crime & Delinquency

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This article examines whether weapon carrying influences the frequency and variety of violent, property, and drug delinquency adolescents commit through fixed-effects analyses of data from the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS). We conclude that weapon carrying contributes to violent, substance, and property delinquency, and delinquent behaviors learned during weapon carrying continue to affect substance and property delinquency long after carrying has ceased.

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Do Weapons Facilitate Adolescent Delinquency? An Examination of Weapon Carrying and Delinquency Among Adolescents

Emmert

Hall

Lizotte

2017

Crime & Delinquency

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“…For instance, 45 percent of the young adult men in the Kacanek and Hemenway (2006) sample reported carrying a gun in the six months prior to their incarceration and 24 percent of the inmates in the Sheley and Wright (1995) sample reported carrying a gun “all the time” in the two years prior to the incarceration.…”

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“…Public gun carrying may increase the chances that individuals will act on crime opportunities, such as vulnerable robbery targets (Kleck, 1991). In addition, survey evidence from different adult and juvenile samples of offenders show that important percentages have reported carrying firearms (Kacanek and Hemenway, 2006; May and Jarjoura, 2006; Sheley and Wright, 1995; Wright and Rossi, 1986)[1].…”

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The effects of gun possession arrests made by a proactive police patrol unit

Wells

Zhang

Zhao

2012

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies &Amp; Management

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PurposeThis paper aims to estimate the effects of gun possession arrests made by a specialized, proactive police patrol unit in the Houston Police Department (HPD).Design/methodology/approachTime series analyses are used to estimate the effects of weekly gun possession arrests on weekly counts of gun crimes in Houston, TX. Models isolate the effects of arrests made by the proactive patrol unit from gun possession arrests made by other HPD officers.FindingsCitywide and beat‐level analyses show that the proactive unit made meaningful contributions to existing levels of illegal possession arrests. Time series analyses using weekly data show that these additional arrests are associated with significant declines in offences committed with guns. Findings support existing evidence that shows police can affect serious crimes by targeting firearms that are illegally possessed and carried.Research limitations/implicationsThe analysis can not precisely determine whether additional patrol presence or arrests are the precise mechanisms that might be influencing gun crimes.Practical implicationsThe findings are consistent with existing evidence and suggest that focused police work to seize illegally possessed firearms from the streets and arrest those in illegal possession of firearms will impact offences committed with firearms.Originality/valueThe analysis extends existing work that tests the effects of proactive patrol activities on offences committed with firearms. The analysis is distinct from existing research on this topic because it estimates the effects of gun possession arrests rather than the effects of gun seizures.

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“…The research on gun-related behaviors has not distinguished gendered behaviors, but has indicated that exposure to gun/firearm violence is associated with drugs and alcohol (Garbarino et al 2002;Nielsen and Martinez 2003;Scribner et al 1995;Shepherd et al 2006), as well as illegal activities (Blumstein 1995;Blumstein and Cork 1996;Kacanek and Hemenway 2006). Data from incarcerated women showed that gun carrying among women was associated with selling and use of crack cocaine and other drugs (Kacanek and Hemenway 2006). Spunt et al (1996), in their interviews with female homicide offenders in New York, found that nearly two-thirds of the homicides committed by women were drug related.…”

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Association Between Gambling and Exposure to Guns Among Cocaine-Using Women

Vaddiparti

Striley

Cottler

2016

Violence and Gender

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The purpose of this study is to assess the association between gambling severity and exposure to guns among substance-using women recruited in the community. Data for these analyses come from the baseline phase of two community-based HIV prevention interventions conducted among alcohol and drug-using women in St. Louis, MO. Gun exposure was assessed using the Violence Exposure Questionnaire (VEQ), and DSM-IV pathological gambling (PG) symptoms and other psychiatric symptoms were assessed using the Computerized Diagnostic Interview Schedule; The Composite International Diagnostic Interview Substance Abuse Module assessed DSM-IV substance dependence, including cocaine dependence and alcohol dependence. Women in the study were predominantly African American (80%), mean age was 35.70 years ±8.8. Women exposed to guns were significantly more likely than women not exposed to guns to have gambled with all consequences: without meeting PG criteria (21% vs. 15%); to meet 1 to 4 PG criteria (22% vs. 12%), and to report 5 or more PG criteria (10% vs. 5%). These differences were significant at < 0.0001. Based on the multivariate analysis, women who gambled without PG symptoms (OR = 1.77; 95% CI = 1.10-2.85) were nearly twice more likely to have exposure to guns than women who did not gamble. The risk for gun exposure increased with severity of gambling. Women who gambled and reported one to four PG criteria were twice as likely to have had an exposure to guns (OR 2.04; 95% CI = 1.45-3.06) and this risk increased to nearly threefold among women who met five or more criteria of PG (OR 2.65; 95% CI = 1.32-5.32). In addition, endorsing five or more criteria for major depressive disorder (OR 1.44; 95% CI = 1.00-2.06) and three or more criteria for antisocial personality adult criteria (OR 3.78; 95% CI = 2.03-7.02) were strong predictors for gun exposure among these women. The findings indicate that substance-using women with gambling behavior are at an enhanced risk to have exposure to guns.

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Gun Carrying and Drug Selling Among Young Incarcerated Men and Women

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

Do Weapons Facilitate Adolescent Delinquency? An Examination of Weapon Carrying and Delinquency Among Adolescents

Do Weapons Facilitate Adolescent Delinquency? An Examination of Weapon Carrying and Delinquency Among Adolescents

The effects of gun possession arrests made by a proactive police patrol unit

Association Between Gambling and Exposure to Guns Among Cocaine-Using Women

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