title: Weapon-carrying and youth violence.
abstract: Weapons, and firearms in particular, are widely available in the United States and are at the heart of youth violence. Many schools and communities throughout the nation have identified weapon-carrying among youth as a substantial health, educational, and social problem. In fact, one of the national health objectives for the year 2000 is to substantially reduce the incidence of weapon-carrying among adolescents. This paper reviews the prevalence of weapon-carrying by youth, reasons they carry weapons, ways that firearms are obtained, firearms and violence (especially youth violence), and the controlling of weapons in schools.
authors.affiliation: Division of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, University of Idaho, Moscow 83844, USA.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Page
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hammermeister
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005389:Firearms; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006708:Homicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014481:United States; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*