Youth who acquire a juvenile crime record may be at increased risk of perpetrating gun violence as adults. North Carolina and 22 other states permit young adults who were adjudicated by a juvenile court – even for some felony-equivalent offenses – to legally access...
Objectives To test the associations of childhood domestic gun access with adult criminality and suicidality. Methods Analyses were based on a 20+ year prospective, community-representative study of 1420 children, who were assessed up to 8 times during childhood...