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College Students' Perceptions of Campus Safety before and after Concealed Carry
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Tanner, John Garrett; Kelemen, William L. – Journal of School Violence, 2023
We assessed college students' perceptions of safety related to concealed carry of firearms on a university campus. Explicit assessments were collected before passage, before implementation, and after implementation of the law; implicit assessments were collected before and after implementation. For comparison, we included college students from a…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, College Environment, Weapons
Estimating the Effects of a California Gun Control Program with Multitask Gaussian Processes
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Eli Ben-Michael; David Arbour; Avi Feller; Alex Franks; Steven Raphael – Grantee Submission, 2023
Gun violence is a critical public safety concern in the United States. In 2006 California implemented a unique firearm monitoring program, the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS), to address gun violence in the state. The APPS program first identifies those firearm owners who be-come prohibited from owning one due to federal or state law,…
Descriptors: Weapons, Crime Prevention, Violence, Safety
Guns, Schools, and Democracy: Adolescents Imagining Social Futures through Speculative Civic Literacies
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Mirra, Nicole; Garcia, Antero – American Educational Research Journal, 2022
This article analyzes how guns emerged as both urgent topics of dialogue and common features of everyday life for 228 students and their teachers in six communities across the United States who participated in the Digital Democratic Dialogue (3D) Project, a year long social design-based experiment aimed at foregrounding youth voice and fostering…
Descriptors: Weapons, Civics, Citizenship Education, Violence
School- and Student-Level Prevalence and Predictors of Weapon-Related Behaviors and Experiences among Secondary Schools in California
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Benbenishty, Rami; Astor, Ron Avi – Journal of School Violence, 2021
This study assessed the prevalence of weapon-related behaviors and experiences in secondary schools in California, their intercorrelations, and predictors at the individual and school levels. This study is based on a representative sample of 889,726 secondary school students in California based on the California Healthy Kids Survey. Prevalence…
Descriptors: Weapons, Secondary School Students, Correlation, Predictor Variables
Assessing Voters' and Parents' Perspectives on Current Threats to Public Education: The 2022 PACE/USC Rossier Poll [Report]
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Hough, Heather; Marsh, Julie; Estrada-Miller, Jeimee; Polikoff, Morgan; Myung, Jeannie – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2022
The 2021-22 academic year was profoundly challenging for California schools. Eight critical issues emerged as serious threats to student learning, the operation of schools, and even the very institution of public education: (1) gun violence, (2) politicization of and support for public education, (3) controversy over what is taught in schools, (4)…
Descriptors: Public Education, Parent Attitudes, Public Opinion, Barriers
Assessing Voters' and Parents' Perspectives on Current Threats to Public Education: The 2022 PACE/USC Rossier Poll [Summary]
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Hough, Heather; Marsh, Julie; Estrada-Miller, Jeimee; Polikoff, Morgan; Myung, Jeannie – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2022
The 2021-22 academic year was profoundly challenging for California schools. Eight critical issues emerged as serious threats to student learning, the operation of schools, and even the very institution of public education: (1) gun violence, (2) politicization of and support for public education, (3) controversy over what is taught in schools, (4)…
Descriptors: Public Education, Parent Attitudes, Public Opinion, Barriers