GUNS RESOURCES

ORGANIZATIONS

Kids and Guns

A practical website on how to keep kids safe from guns.

National Rifle Association

News, information and links on the activities of the American NRA.

National Youth Violence Prevention Center
A federal resource for professionals, parents and youth working to prevent violence committed by and against young people.

Reducing Youth Gun Violence: An Overview of Programs and Initiatives.

Program from the Office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention.

BOOKS

Canada, Geoffrey (1995) Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: A personal history of violence in America. Beacon Press, 179pp.  A wonderful personal account of how the code of the streets leads to lethal consequences, the evolution and escalation of youthful violence, and how we can respond. From a faithful youth leader and program director in Harlem, New York.

Cox, Vic. (1997) Guns, Violence and Teens. Enslow Publishers, 112pp. Geared for young adults.

Kohn, Abigail. (2004) Shooters: Myths and Realities of America's Gun Cultures. Oxford University Press, 224pp.

Muth, Robert Merrill et al. (1999) Guns in America: A Reader. New York University Press, 517pp.

Prothrow-Stith, Deborah (1991) Deadly Consequences: How Violence Is Destroying Our Teenage Population and a Plan to Begin Solving the Problem. HarperPerennial, 269pp. A professor and public health official analyzes the problem of youthful violence, gun and other, proposing a dramatic strategy of making it a public health issue.

Sheley, Joseph and James D. Wright. (995) In the Line of Fire: Youths, Guns, and Violence in Urban America. Aldine, 180pp.

Strasser, Todd. (2002) Give a Boy a Gun. Simon Pulse, 208pp.

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