@article{ref1,
title="Youth and weapons: patterns, individual and neighborhood correlates of violent crime arrests in Miami-Dade County, Florida",
journal="Health and place",
year="2020",
author="Moise, Imelda K.",
volume="65",
number="",
pages="e102407-e102407",
abstract="This study uses arrest data from the Miami-Dade County Police Department (n = 13 districts) for 2014-2017 to identify census tracts in which weapon violence arrests among young people aged 10-24 is high, and models area-level predictors of the total number of violent weapons crimes by census tract (greenness and socioeconomic status indices, population density and weapon dealers), after adjusting for arrestee-level factors (age, race and gender). Combined, handguns and firearms accounted for 23.2% (n = 1330) of all arrests (including murder and non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault). Arrests for weapon -related violent crime are concentrated in census tracts located in the north and south neighborhoods of Miami-Dade County. <br><br>FINDINGS indicate that arrestee factors and a neighborhood greenness index are more important than population density, weapon dealers and poverty in predicting arrests for weapon-related violent crime at the census tract level.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1353-8292",
doi="10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102407",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102407"
}