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Mayer, Matthew J.; Astor, Ron Avi – Preventing School Failure, 2023
School violence, and particularly, school shootings, remain a serious concern among parents, community members, educators, and governmental leadership at the local, state, and national levels. While school shootings periodically dominate media coverage of school safety issues, schools are among the safest places for students in the community. This…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, School Safety, Juvenile Gangs
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Khoury-Kassabri, Mona; Astor, Ron Avi; Benbenishty, Rami – Health Education & Behavior, 2007
The present study employed an ecological perspective to examine the relative predictive power of individual and school contextual factors on weapon carrying at school. The study is based on a nationally representative sample of 10,400 students in Grades 7 through 11 in 162 schools across Israel. Hierarchical logistic modeling examined the…
Descriptors: Weapons, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Statistical Analysis