Firearm Involvement in Adolescent Children of Formerly Incarcerated Parents: A Prospective Intergenerational Study of Resilience Within Families

曾被监禁的父母的青少年儿童使用枪支：家庭内部复原力的前瞻性代际研究

• 批准号: 10163428
• 负责人: LINDA A TEPLIN
• 金额: $ 50.69万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-30 至 2023-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10163428
• 关键词: Firearm; Involvement; Adolescent; Children; Formerly

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This proposal responds to RFA-CE-20-006, Objective One, Funding Option B. Firearm violence is an urgent public health problem. Despite declines in homicide and other violent crime, firearms were involved in the crime-related deaths of more than 140,000 people in the United States from 2008 to 2018. Youth in the juvenile justice system are disproportionately affected by firearm violence. Many juvenile offenders become parents when young; their children are likely to be at significant risk for firearm involvement and victimization. Yet there are remarkably few data on how parents’ involvement with firearms, during their own adolescence and young adulthood, influences their children’s risk. We designed Next Generation, funded by the National Institute of Child Health, Human Development the National Institute of Justice, and other agencies to address this and other key omissions. Leveraging prospective data already collected on our original participants, Next Generation includes the first prospective study of how high-risk parents’ current and past involvement with firearms (ownership, perpetration of violence, and victimization) influences that of their adolescent children. This study, however, samples only one child per family. We propose that the CDC augment our intergenerational study of firearms to add siblings. We propose to add 532 interviews: 165 with siblings and 367 additional interviews with their parents and secondary caregivers. Total N of the proposed study of firearms would then be 1,585: 709 children plus 544 parents and 332 secondary caregivers. Funding from the CDC will allow us to address three aims: Aim 1: to examine patterns of firearm involvement focusing on patterns of concordance and discordance between siblings. Aim 2: to examine the influence of parents’ (G1) firearm involvement on their children’s involvement (G2), focusing on differences between siblings in this relationship. Aim 3: to identify risk and protective factors that explain within- and between-family differences. The proposed prospective study has several key features: (1) the sample will include enough parents with a history of involvement with firearms (including victimization and perpetration) to examine the influence on their children and differences between siblings; (2) the sample is composed predominantly of socioeconomically disadvantaged African Americans and Hispanics, groups that face the most grievous consequences of firearm violence; and (3) the design will provide multilevel data to identify the risk and protective factors that explain why one sibling is able to avoid firearm involvement while the other is not. Findings will guide the development and adaptation of preventive interventions for the highest risk families. We will provide data responding to the CDC’s priority of identifying strategies to decrease inappropriate access to and use of weapons by minors and to prevent lethal violence.

项目概要/摘要 该提案回应 RFA-CE-20-006，目标一，资助选项 B。枪支暴力是 一个紧迫的公共卫生问题。尽管凶杀案和其他暴力犯罪有所下降，但涉及枪支犯罪 2008 年至 2018 年，美国有超过 140,000 人因犯罪而死亡。 青少年司法系统受到枪支暴力的影响尤为严重。许多青少年犯罪者成为 年轻时的父母；他们的孩子很可能面临涉枪和受害的重大风险。 然而，关于父母在青春期如何参与枪支的数据却非常少。 和青年时期，都会影响孩子的风险。我们设计了下一代，由国家资助 儿童健康研究所、人类发展研究所、国家司法研究所和其他机构来解决 这一遗漏和其他关键遗漏。利用我们已经收集到的原始参与者的前瞻性数据，下一步 Generation 包括第一项前瞻性研究，研究高风险父母当前和过去如何参与 枪支（拥有、实施暴力和受害）影响着青少年子女的枪支。 然而，这项研究仅对每个家庭一个孩子进行抽样。我们建议 CDC 加强我们的 代际研究枪支以增加兄弟姐妹。我们建议增加 532 次访谈：其中 165 次是与兄弟姐妹和 367 次对其父母和二级照顾者进行的额外访谈。拟议研究的总计 N 枪支数量将达到 1,585 支：709 名儿童加上 544 名家长和 332 名二级护理人员。资金来自 CDC 将使我们能够实现三个目标： 目标 1：检查枪支参与模式，重点关注 兄弟姐妹之间一致和不一致的模式。目标2：考察父母的影响（G1） 枪支参与对子女参与的影响（G2），重点关注兄弟姐妹之间在这方面的差异 关系。目标 3：确定解释家庭内部和家庭之间的风险和保护因素 差异。拟议的前瞻性研究有几个关键特征：（1）样本将包括足够的 有枪支历史（包括受害和犯罪）的父母，以检查 对子女的影响以及兄弟姐妹之间的差异； (2) 样本主要由 社会经济上处于不利地位的非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人，他们面临着最严重的困难 枪支暴力的后果； (3) 设计将提供多级数据来识别风险和 保护性因素解释了为什么一个兄弟姐妹能够避免使用枪支，而另一个则不能。 研究结果将指导针对高危家庭制定和调整预防性干预措施。 我们将提供响应 CDC 确定减少不当访问策略的优先事项的数据 防止未成年人使用武器并防止致命暴力。