Gender: Young Men

Small Arms-specific Research

Small Arms Survey Publications

Jütersonke, Oliver, Keith Krause and Robert Muggah. 2007. "Guns in the City: Urban landscapes of armed violence" in Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City.

Bevan, James and Nicolas Florquin. 2006. "Few Options but the Gun: Angry Young Men" in Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business.

Florquin, Nicolas and Christina Wille. 2004. "A Common Tool: Firearms, Violence, and Crime" in Small Arms Survey 2004: Rights at Risk.


Other Articles, Books and Journals

Epps, Ken. 2007. Towards Safe and Sustainable Communities: Addressing Armed Violence as a Development Priority. Working Paper 07-2. Waterloo : Project ploughshares.

Von Brabant, Koenraad. 2007. Human Insecurity in Six Post-conflict Cities. Human Security for an Urban Century. Vol. 4 No 3. Ottawa : DFAIT, pp. 20-2.

Moser, Caroline. 2006. Reducing Urban Violence in Developing Countries. Policy Brief No 1. Washington D.C. Brookings Institution.

Cook, Phillip, et al. 2005. "Underground Gun Markets". Working Paper 11737. NBER Working Paper Series. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. November.

Braga, Anthony. 2004. "Gun Violence among Serious Young Offenders." Problem-Oriented Guides for Police, Problem-Specific Guides Series No. 23. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice.

Hemenway, David. 2004. Private Guns, Public Health. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Hemenway, David and Matthew Miller. 2004. "Gun Threats Against and Self-defense Gun Use by California Adolescents". The Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine. Vol. 158. April, pp. 395-400.

Peres, Maria Fernanda Tourinho. 2004. "Firearm-related Violence in Brazil: Country Report". Sao Paulo and Geneva: Center for the Study of Violence, University of Sao Paulo, Small Arms Survey, and WHO.

Wilkinson, Deanna. 2003. Guns, Violence, and Identity Among African American and Latino Youth. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing.

Cook, Phillip and Jens Ludwig. 2003. "Does Gun Prevalence Affect Teen Gun Carrying After All?" Working Paper Series. Durham, North Carolina: Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University.

Fagan, Jeffrey. 2002. "Policing Guns and Youth Violence". The Future of Children. Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 133-51.

Lizotte, Alan and David Sheppard. 2001. "Gun Use by Male Juveniles: Research and Prevention". Juvenile Justice Bulletin. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, Office of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Wilkinson, Deanna and Jeffrey Fagan. 2001. "What We Know About Gun Use Among Adolescents". Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. Vol. 4 (2), pp.109-32.

Wilkinson, Deanna and Jeffrey Fagan. 1996. "Understanding the Role of Firearms in Violence 'Scripts' : The Dynamics of Gun Events Among Adolescent Males. Law and Contemporary Problems." Vol. 59 (1), pp. 55-90.


Further Resources

Children in Organized Armed Violence
Duke University, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Harvard Injury Control Research Center
United States National Criminal Justice Reference Service
WHO, Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention
 
 
 

Lessons in (Violent) Masculinity

Small Arms Survey Publications

Bevan, James and Nicolas Florquin. 2006. "Few Options but the Gun: Angry Young Men" in Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business.


Other Articles, Books and Journals

Kimmel, Michael. 2005. The History of Men: Essays on the History of American and British Masculinities. New York: SUNY Press.

Barker, Gary. 2005. Dying to be Men: Youth, Masculinity and Social Exclusion. London: Routledge.

Braga, Anthony. 2004. "Gun Violence among Serious Young Offenders." Problem-Oriented Guides for Police, Problem-Specific Guides Series No. 23. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice.

Anderson, Craig, et al. 2003. "The Influence of Media Violence on Youth". Psychological Science in the Public Interest. Vol. 4:3. December, pp. 81-110.

Huesmann, Rowell, et al. 2003. "Longitudinal Relations Between Children's Exposure to TV Violence and Their Aggressive and Violent Behavior in Young Adulthood: 1977-1992". Developmental Psychology. Vol. 39:2, pp. 201-21.

Kimmel, Michael. 2003. The Gendered Society. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lindsay, Lisa and Stephan Miescher (Eds.) 2003. Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa. Portsmouth: Heinemann.

Anderson, Craig and Brad Bushman. 2001. "Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggressive Behavior, Aggressive Cognition, Aggressive Affect, Physiological Arousal, and Prosocial Behavior". Psychological Science. Vol. 12:5. September, pp. 353-59.

Fischoff, Stuart. 1999. "Psychology's Quixotic Quest For the Media-Violence Connection". Address at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, 21 August.

Tolan, Patrick H. and Deborah Gorman-Smith. 1998. "Development of Serious and Violent Offending Careers". In Rolf Loeber and David P. Farrington (Eds.) Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Buchman, Debra and Jeanne Funk. 1996. "Video and Computer Games in the '90s: Children's Time Commitment and Game Preference". Children Today. Vol. 24, pp. 12-16.

Emler, Nicolas and Stephen Reicher. 1995. Adolescence and Delinquency: the Collective Management of Reputation. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Archer, John. 1994. "Violence between men." In John Archer, ed. Male violence. London: Routledge, pp. 121-42.

Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Streetwise: Race, Class and Change in an Urban Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Schwartz, Gary. 1987. Beyond Conformity or Rebellion: Youth and Authority in America. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.


Further Resources

Instituto Promundo
 
 
 

Case Studies

Small Arms Survey Publications

Bevan, James and Nicolas Florquin. 2006. "Few Options but the Gun: Angry Young Men" in Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business.

Peres, Maria Fernanda Tourinho. 2004. "Firearm-related Violence in Brazil" - "Violência por armas de fogo no Brasil". Summary Report.


Other Articles, Books and Journals

Belgium
Vercaigne, Conny. 2001. "The Group Aspect of Youth Crime and Youth Gangs in Brussels: What We Do Know and Especially What We Don't." In Klein, Malcom, et al. (eds.) 2001. The Eurogang Paradox: Street Gangs and Youth Groups in the U.S. and Europe. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 283-98.

Brazil
Dowdney, Luke. 2003. "Children of the Drug Trade: A Case Study of Children in Organized Armed Violence in Rio de Janeiro". Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras.

Canada
Dauvergne, Mia and Geoffrey Li. 2006. Homicide in Canada, 2005. Juristat. Vol 26, No 6, pp. 1-25.

Congo DRC
Jourdan, Luca. 2004. "Being at War, Being Young: Violence and Youth in North Kivu." In Koen Vlassenroot and Timothy Raeymaekers (Eds.) 2004. Conflict and Social Transformation in Eastern DR Congo. Ghent: Academia Press, pp. 157-76.

Liberia
Ellis, Stephen. 1997. "Young Soldiers and the Significance of Initiation: Some Notes from Liberia". Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum.

Nicaragua
Rodgers, Dennis. 2006. Living in the Shadow of Death: Gangs, Violence and Social Order in Urban Nicaragua, 1996 – 2002. Journal of Latin American Studies. Vol 38 No 2 May pp 267 – 92.

South Africa
Cock, Jackie. 2001. "Gun Violence and Masculinity in Contemporary South Africa". In Robert Morell (Eds.) 2005. Changing Men in Southern Africa. Durban: University of Natal Press/Zed Books.

United Kingdom
Conway, Mary and Jonny Byrne. 2005. "Interface Issues: An Annotated Bibliography". Belfast: Institute for Conflict Research.

Smyth, Marie and Patricia Campbell. 2005. "Young People and Armed Violence in Northern Ireland". Rio de Janeiro: Viva Rio, CAOV.

Bullock, Karen and Nick Tilley. 2002. "Shootings, Gangs and Violent Incidents in Manchester: Developing a Crime Reduction Strategy". Crime Reduction Series Paper 13. London: Home Office, Research, Development and Statistics Directorate.

BIP (Belfast Interface Project). 1998. Young People on the Interface. Belfast: BIP.

United States
Hemenway, David and Matthew Miller. 2004. "Gun Threats Against and Self-defense Gun Use by California Adolescents". The Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine. Vol. 158. April, pp. 395-400.

Wilkinson, Deanna. 2003. Guns, Violence, and Identity Among African American and Latino Youth. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing.

Various
COAV (Children and Youth in Organized Armed Violence). 2005. Research: Youth Testimonies. Rio de Janeiro: Viva Rio, COAV.

Dowdney, Luke. 2005. "Neither War Nor Peace: International Comparisons of Children and Youth in Organized Armed Violence". Rio de Janeiro: COAV.

Klein, Malcom, et al. (Eds.) 2001. The Eurogang Paradox: Street Gangs and Youth Groups in the U.S. and Europe. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

McAlister, Alfred. 2000. "La violencia juvenil en las Américas: estudios innovadores de investigación, diagnóstico y prevención" (Youth Violence in the Americas: Innovative Studies, Diagnosis, and Prevention). Washington, D.C.: Pan-American Health Organization.

Huff, C. Ronald. 1998. "Comparing the Criminal Behavior of Youth Gangs and At-risk Youths". Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice.


Further Resources

Children in Organized Armed Violence
Institute for Security Studies
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
United Nations, Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
 
 
 

Interventions

Other Articles, Books and Journals

Cuesta, José, Erik Alda, and Jorge Lamas. 2007. 'Social Capital, Violence and Public Intervention: The Case of Cali'. IADB Economic and Sector Study Series. Washington, D.C.: IDAB.

Flannery, Daniel, Alexander Vazsonyi and Irwin Waldman (eds.). 2007. 'The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression.' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

UNODC (UN Office on Drugs and Crime) and World Bank. 2007. 'Crime, Violence, and Development: Trends, Costs, and Policy Options for the Caribbean.' March.

Diehl, Digby. 2005. "The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention". In Stephen Isaacs and James Knickman. To Improve Health and Health Care: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology, Volume VIII. 2nd ed. Hoboken: Jossey-Bass.

Decker, Scott and Richard Rosenfeld. 2004. "Reducing Gun Violence: The St. Louis Consent-to-Search Program". Washington, D.C.: NIJ.

Tita, George, et al. 2003. "Unruly Turf: The Role of Interagency Collaborations in Reducing Gun Violence". RAND Review. Santa Monica: RAND.

UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) and WHO (World Health Organization). 2003. "Armed Violence Prevention Programme (AVPP): Support to Community-Based Violence Prevention Programmes". Project Document. Project Number INT/03/MXX.

Kennedy, David, et al. 2001. "Reducing Gun Violence: The Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire". Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice.

Shaw, Margaret. 2001. "Investing in Youth 12-18: International Approaches to Preventing Crime and Victimization". Montreal: International Centre for the Prevention of Crime.

Sherman, Lawrence and Dennis Rogan. 1995. "Effects of Gun Seizures on Gun Violence: "Hot Spots" Patrol in Kansas City." Justice Quarterly. Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 673-93.


Further Resources

Boston Gun Project
Viva Rio
WHO, Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention
United States National Institute of Justice (enter "gun violence" as search keyword)
UNODC (UN Office on Drugs and Crime)
IADB (Inter American Development Bank)