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Science 27 May 2005:
Vol. 308. no. 5726, pp. 1323 - 1326
DOI: 10.1126/science.1110096
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Firearm Violence Exposure and Serious Violent Behavior

Jeffrey B. Bingenheimer,1* Robert T. Brennan,2 Felton J. Earls2

To estimate the cause-effect relationship between exposure to firearm violence and subsequent perpetration of serious violence, we applied the analytic method of propensity stratification to longitudinal data on adolescents residing in Chicago, Illinois. Results indicate that exposure to firearm violence approximately doubles the probability that an adolescent will perpetrate serious violence over the subsequent 2 years.

1 Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, 1420 Washington Heights, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA.
2 Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue, 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bartbing{at}umich.edu

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