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Weapon Carrying and Brandishing Among Youth: A Continued Call to Engage With Root Causes and Systemic Injustice

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  • Weapon carrying and brandishing among youth persist as a serious public health problem requiring urgent, multi-level responses.
  • Recent literature over-relies on General Strain Theory and individual-level analyses, obscuring broader structural drivers.
  • Scholars must centre root causes and systemic injustice in research and policy, as defended in this essay responding to critique.
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J Interpers Violence. 2026 Jul 22:8862605261459060. doi: 10.1177/08862605261459060. Online ahead of print.

ABSTRACT

Weapon carrying and brandishing among youth remains a serious public health issue. In a previous commentary, I expressed concerns about gaps in recent literature on the subject, particularly among manuscripts that engaged General Strain Theory as a sole theoretical framework. I argued that these manuscripts overemphasized individual-level analyses and neglected root causes and systemic injustice. This essay responds to a critique of that original commentary, coauthored by Timothy Brezina and Robert Agnew.

PMID:42483839 | DOI:10.1177/08862605261459060

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