Neighborhood collective efficacy and environmental exposure to firearm homicide among a national sample of adolescents

Injury Epidemiology

Short Report

Xiaoya Zhang¹  Angela Bruns²  Amanda J. Aubel³  Shani Buggs³  Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz³ 

[1] Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, PO Box 110310, 1604 McCarty Drive, 32611, Gainesville, FL, USA;Department of Sociology and Criminology, Gonzaga University, 502 E Boone Ave, 99258, Spokane, WA, USA;Violence Prevention Research Program, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, 2315 Stockton Blvd, 95817, Sacramento, CA, USA;

关键词: Neighborhood collective efficacy;    Firearm violence;    Adolescents;    Income;    Race/ethnicity;    Disparities;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40621-023-00435-8

 received in 2023-03-21, accepted in 2023-05-24,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundLiving near an incident of firearm violence can negatively impact youth, regardless of whether the violence is experienced firsthand. Inequities in household and neighborhood resources may affect the prevalence and consequences of exposure across racial/ethnic groups.FindingsUsing data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study and the Gun Violence Archive, we estimate that approximately 1 in 4 adolescents in large US cities lived within 800 m (0.5 miles) of a past-year firearm homicide during 2014–17. Exposure risk decreased as household income and neighborhood collective efficacy increased, though stark racial/ethnic inequities remained. Across racial/ethnic groups, adolescents in poor households in moderate or high collective efficacy neighborhoods had a similar risk of past-year firearm homicide exposure as middle-to-high income adolescents in low collective efficacy neighborhoods.ConclusionsEmpowering communities to build and leverage social ties may be as impactful for reducing firearm violence exposure as income supports. Comprehensive violence prevention efforts should include systems-level strategies that jointly strengthen family and community resources.

【 授权许可】

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© The Author(s) 2023