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Phillip B. Levine; Robin McKnight – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024
This paper examines the impact of high-fatality school shootings on the subsequent outcomes of the survivors of those events. We focus specifically on the shootings at Columbine High School (Littleton, CO), Sandy Hook Elementary (Newtown, CT), and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School (Parkland, FL). We assess the subsequent educational record,…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Death, High School Students
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Girard, Holly J.; Aguilar, Erick – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2019
School mass murder shootings were practically unheard of prior to the 1980s. It is the purpose of this qualitative case study to explore what parents of teenagers believe are shared behaviors, social characteristics and personality traits of juveniles at risk of becoming mass murderer offenders. Being a loner or having social isolation was the…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Personality Traits, At Risk Persons
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Surratt, Hilary L.; Inciardi, James A.; Kurtz, Steven P.; Kiley, Marion C. – Crime & Delinquency, 2004
This article examines the subculture of violence thesis as it relates to female street sex workers in Miami. Interview and focus group methods were used to study the intersections of childhood trauma, drug use, and violent victimization among 325 women. Using targeted sampling, crack- and heroin-using sex workers were recruited through street…
Descriptors: Violence, Focus Groups, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Drug Use