RT Article
T1 Violence, worry and trust in the emergence of weapon-carrying
JF European journal of criminology
VO 20
IS 4
SP 1484
OP 1505
A1 Brennan, Iain
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1894805453
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, at least over longer periods, weapon-carrying is a product of experience of violence and criminogenic factors rather than a response to concern about victimisation.
K1 Weapon
K1 Fear of crime
K1 trust in the police
K1 Violence
DO 10.1177/14773708211046193