RT Book
T1 Violence, worry and trust in the emergence of weapon-carrying
A1 Brennan, Iain
LA English
PP Hull
PB Department of Criminology and Sociology, University of Hull
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1874820104
AB This paper identifies longitudinal predictors of weapon-carrying in a sample of 10-25 year olds in England and Wales. It conceptualises weapon-carrying as anticipation of an adverse event and proposes hypotheses about the origins of weapon-carrying derived from the field of risk analysis. Specifically, it tests if worry about victimisation and experience of violence predict later weapon-carrying and assesses the moderating influence of trust in the police. The results indicate that worry about victimisation does not predict weapon-carrying, but experience of violence does. Distrust of police and peer criminality were also identified as important precursors to weapon-carrying. The study provides further evidence that weapon-carrying is a product of exposure to violence and criminogenic factors rather than a response to concern about victimisation.
NO Literaturangaben
K1 Weapon
K1 Violence
K1 trust in the police
K1 Fear of crime
DO 10.17605/OSF.IO/W6YN9