prevalence of school-related delinquency also varied by the level of the school's gun problem (Exhibit 30). Respondents at schools with a serious gun problem were more likely to report delinquency and victimization than students at schools with a moderate or minor gun problem. Students attending a school with a serious gun problem were about three times more likely to report having frequently carried a weapon to school, repeatedly having been threatened or injured with a weapon at school, and chronically having engaged in fights at school. Furthermore, students at schools with a serious gun problem were twice as likely to report having been chronically drunk or high at school, and many times more likely to report having brought a handgun to school.
Exhibit 30: Amount of school-related delinquency byjust over 2 percent of females reported having carried a gun. Nine percent of African American youth reported having carried a gun, followed by 8.7 percent of Native Americans, 6.8 percent of Hispanics, 5.2 percent of Whites, and 2.7 percent of Asians. In terms of raw numbers, most gun carriers were White, followed by Hispanics, Native Americans, African Americans, and Asians. Likewise, most gun carriers were male (81.1 percent), with only about 19 percent of gun carriers being female. Half of the youth who had carried a gun did so for the first time before they were 13 years old. Only a small proportion of the youth surveyed had friends who had carried a gun, and most did not believe that their friends would think that they were