Firearm Involvement Among Parents and Their Adolescent Children: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of At-Risk Youth

父母及其青少年子女的枪支参与：对高危青少年的前瞻性纵向研究

• 批准号: 10471954
• 负责人: LINDA A TEPLIN
• 金额: $ 57.59万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10471954
• 关键词: Academy; Adolescence; Adolescent; Affect; African American; African American population; Age; Attitude; Behavior; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Cessation of life; Child; Communication; Communities; Crime; Data; Development; Face; Family; Firearms; Gender; Gun injury; Guns; Healthy People 2020; High School Student; Hispanic; Hispanic Populations; Homicide; Individual; Injury; Interview; Investigation; Laws; Longitudinal Studies; Longitudinal prospective study; Mediating; Medicine; Mental Health; Methods; Minor; Motivation; Not Hispanic or Latino; Outcome; Ownership; Parents; Participant; Pattern; Persons; Play; Property; Prospective Studies; Public Health; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Research Priority; Risk; Risk Factors; Role; Safety; Sampling; Schools; Shapes; Socialization; Source; Suicide; Supervision; United States; Victimization; Violence; Youth; antisocial behavior; community-level factor; critical developmental period; design; ethnic difference; ethnic diversity; ethnic minority; experience; gun violence; high risk; high risk parents; high risk population; high-risk adolescents; inner city; innovation; intergenerational; juvenile delinquent; offender; parental influence; peer; prevent; preventive intervention; prospective; protective factors; racial and ethnic; social; socioeconomic disadvantage; violence perpetration; violence victimization; violent crime; weapon carrying; weapons; young adult

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Firearm violence is an urgent public health problem. Despite declines in homicide and other violent crime, firearms were involved in the crime-related deaths of more than 350,000 people in the United States in the past decade. Young urban racial/ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected. In the Northwestern Juvenile Project (NJP), our 16-year longitudinal study of juvenile offenders, we found that a large proportion owned a gun, perpetrated firearm violence, and/or were victims of firearm violence. Many juvenile offenders become parents when young; their children are at great risk for firearm involvement and victimization. Yet there are remarkably few data on how parents' involvement with firearms—during their own adolescence and young adulthood—influences their children's risk. We propose to leverage prospective data—already collected on our original participants—to conduct the first large-scale study of how high-risk parents' current and past involvement with firearms (ownership, perpetration of violence, and victimization) influences that of their adolescent children. We will interview 900 participants: n=450 high-risk youth (children of adolescent offenders), ages 12 to 15 years, and their parents, n=450. We chose ages 12 to 15 years because it is a critical developmental period for the initiation of firearm involvement. We have 4 aims: (1) to examine patterns of firearm involvement in urban high-risk adolescents (children of juvenile offenders, G2); (2) to examine their parents' (G1) involvement with firearms; (3) to examine how parents' firearm involvement influences that of their children; and (4) to identify risk and protective factors that moderate and mediate the relationship between the parent and child's involvement with firearms. The proposed prospective study has several key features: (1) the sample will include enough parents with a history of involvement with firearms (including victimization and perpetration) to examine its influence on their children; (2) the sample is predominantly socioeconomically disadvantaged African Americans and Hispanics, groups who face the most grievous consequences of firearm violence; (3) the design will allow us to examine multilevel data on risk and protective factors from individuals, families, peers, and communities; and (5) the study uses a mixed-methods approach to identify protective factors that could be used as targets for developing innovative preventive interventions. The investigation will provide data responding to: (1) the National Academy of Medicine's priorities for research to reduce the threat of firearm-related violence; (2) Healthy People 2020's objective to reduce firearm-related deaths or reduce weapon carrying by adolescents on school property; and (3) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's priority to identify and evaluate strategies to decrease inappropriate access to and use of weapons by minors, and to prevent lethal violence.

项目概要/摘要 尽管凶杀和其他暴力犯罪有所下降，但枪支暴力是一个紧迫的公共卫生问题。 美国去年因犯罪导致超过 35 万人因枪支死亡 过去十年，年轻的城市少数族裔受到的影响尤为严重。 青少年项目（NJP），我们对青少年罪犯进行了16年的纵向研究，我们发现很大一部分 拥有枪支、实施枪支暴力和/或成为枪支暴力的受害者 许多青少年犯罪者。 年轻时就成为父母；他们的孩子面临着参与枪支和受害的巨大风险。 令人惊讶的是，关于父母在青春期和青少年时期如何参与枪支的数据却很少。 我们建议利用已收集的前瞻性数据。 对我们最初的参与者进行首次大规模研究，了解高风险父母当前和过去的情况如何 参与枪支（拥有、实施暴力和受害）会影响他们的枪支 我们将采访 900 名参与者：n=450 名高危青少年（青少年儿童）。 罪犯），年龄 12 至 15 岁，及其父母，n=450，我们选择年龄 12 至 15 岁，因为这是一个关键年龄。 我们有 4 个目标：（1）研究枪支参与的模式。 城市高危青少年（少年犯的子女，G2）使用枪支的情况；（2）检查他们的枪支情况； 父母（G1）对枪支的参与；（3）研究父母对枪支的参与如何影响 他们的孩子；(4) 识别调节和调解关系的风险和保护因素 拟议的前瞻性研究有几个关键点。 特点：（1）样本将包括足够多有枪支历史的父母（包括 (2) 样本主要是 社会经济上处于不利地位的非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人，他们面临着最严重的困难 枪支暴力的后果；（3）该设计将使我们能够检查有关风险和保护的多级数据 来自个人、家庭、同伴和社区的因素；(5) 该研究采用混合方法 确定可用作制定创新预防干预措施目标的保护因素。 调查将提供以下数据：(1) 美国国家医学院的优先事项 减少枪支相关暴力威胁的研究；(2)“健康人民 2020”的目标是减少 与枪支相关的死亡或减少青少年在学校场所携带武器；以及 (3) 和中心； 疾病控制和预防的首要任务是确定和评估减少不当行为的策略 未成年人获取和使用武器，并防止致命暴力。