Contents:

Introduction; Part I Youth, Gangs and Guns: - Gang-related gun violence: socialization, identity and self, Paul B. Stretesky and Mark R. Pogrebin; - Gangs, gang homicides, and gang loyalty: organized crimes or disorganized criminals, Scott H. Decker and G.David Curry; - The role of firearms in violence 'scripts': the dynamics of gun events among adolescent males, Deanna L. Wilkinson and Jeffrey Fagan; - Gun crime: the market in and use of illegal firearms, Gavin Hales, Chris Lewis and Daniel Silverstone; - Early onset offending and later violent and gun outcomes in a contemporary youth cohort, Cynthia Perez McCluskey, John D. McCluskey and Timothy S. Bynum; - The association between weapon-carrying and the use of violence among adolescents living in or around public housing, Robert H. DuRant, Alan G. Getts, Chris Cadenhead and Elizabeth R. Woods; - Examining the arsenal of juvenile gunslingers: trends and policy implications, Rick Ruddell and G. Larry Mays; - 'Getting high and getting by': dimensions of drug selling behaviours among American Mexican gang members in South Texas, Avelardo Valdez and Stephen J. Sifaneck. Part II Robbery and Firearms: - Stick-up, street culture, and offender motivation, Bruce A. Jacobs and Richard Wright; - Up it up: gender and the accomplishment of street robbery, Jody Miller; - Possession and use of illegal guns among offenders in England and Wales, Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway; - Generating compliance: the case of robbery, David F. Luckenbill; - Armed and dangerous: the use of firearms in robbery, Ian O'Donnell and Shona Morrison; - 'Stick 'em up, buddy': robbery, lifestyle, and specialization within a cohort of parolees, Shawn L. Schwaner; - Robbery violence, Philip J. Cook. Part III Gun Crime, Violence and Homicide: Weapon use and violent crime: national crime victimization survey, 1993–2001, Craig Perkins; - To kill or not to kill? Lethal outcomes in injurious attacks, Richard B. Felson and Steven F. Messner; - Exploring the drugs-homicide connection, Sean P. Varano, John D. McCluskey, Justin W. Patchin and Timothy S. Bynum; - Retaliatory homicide: concentrated disadvantage and neighborhood culture, Charles E. Kibrin and Ronald Weitzer; - Social capital, income inequality and firearm violent crime, Bruce P. Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi, Deborah Protherow-Stith, Kimberley Lochner and Vanita Gupta; - National case-control study of homicide offending and gun ownership, Gary Kleck and Michael Hogan; - The prevalence and nature of violent offending by females, Barbara A. Koons-Witt and Pamela J. Schram; Investigating the connections between race, illicit drug markets, and lethal violence, 1984–1997, Graham C. Ousey and Matthew R. Lee; - Deadly demographics: population characteristics and forecasting homicide trends, James Alan Fox and Alex R. Piquero; - Firearm use by offenders: survey of inmates in state and federal correctional facilities, Caroline Wolf Harlow. Part IV Stitching Up the Pieces: Firearm Injury Trauma from Criminal Offending: Firearm injury and death from crime, 1993–97, Marianne W. Zawitz and Kevin J. Strom; - Children who are shot: a 30 year experience, Danielle Laraque, Barbara Barlow; - Maureen Durkin, Joy Howell, Franklyn Cladis, David Friedman, Carla DiScala, Rao Ivatury and William Stahl; - Assaultive violence in the community: psychological responses of adolescent victims and their parents, Kathy Sanders-Phillips; - Gunshot injuries to the extremities: experience of a UK trauma centre, I.J. Persad, R. Srinivas Reddy, M.A. Saunders and J. Patel; Index.