Public Policy on Youth Gun Violence

Policy recommendations emerging from the research include a new strengthening of partnerships at the local level between law enforcement agencies and community organizations in high crime communities. Strengthening early childhood intervention and prevention efforts, particularly with regard to at-risk children and youth, is also needed as a policy initiative.

Reframing the discussion in terms of criminality and delinquency rather than gun control may be beneficial. However, the literature also indicates that youth gun violence may be an artifact to some degree of larger social conditions that are not amenable to a single or narrow policy shift. Resolving youth gun violence will ultimately require the resolution of some of the social ills that place minority groups at a distinct disadvantage and that create communities that are troubled by crime.

Juvenile delinquency has been described by Bartollas (2000) as constituting nearly one-third of the prope

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02) found that the cost of gun violence are far more widely distributed across the population than victimization statistics might suggest. While it is true that gunshot injuries (along with convictions for gun violence) disproportionately afflict the poor, the threat of gun violence reduces the quality of life for all Americans by engendering concerns about safety, raising taxes, and limited choices about where to live, work, travel, and attend school. However, the substantial increase in safety from violence has generated economic benefits in terms of reduced criminal justice and medical costs as well as the stimulation of a renaissance in many central cities. At the same time, Cook and Ludwig (2002) draw together the historical, sociocultural, and economic contexts by pointing out that there are large racial disparities as well as gender disparities in homicide rates due to gun violence. The rate for black males is 2.4 times as high as that for Hispanic males and 15.3 times as high as that for non-Hispanic white males. For black families, the chance of their male children dying from a gunshot wound is 62 percent higher than the chance of dying in a motor vehicle crash -- whereas for whites motor vehicles are a greater thre
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