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Mar 11, 2020
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This study will interview 600 young people across four cities: New York, NY; Detroit, MI; Philadelphia, PA; and Wilmington, DE; to gain a better understanding of why youth in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods get involved with guns.
In Progress
Examine urban youth gun violence in the United States to answer three research questions:
Instead of focusing on the logistics of how young people acquire guns, this study will explore why they get guns and the social and cultural contexts in which they and their peers use guns. The findings from this study will help inform prevention initiatives that leverage existing cultural resilience strategies to address the underlying drivers of gun violence in these and similar communities.