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Robles-Pina, Rebecca A.; Denham, Magdalena A. – Journal of School Violence, 2012
The number of school police officers, School Resource Officers (SROs), is increasing on school campuses to assist in preventing school violence, and in particular bullying. This mixed-methods study was conducted to compare the knowledge and perceptions of SROs (N = 184) hired by independent school districts (ISD SROs) and those contracted from law…
Descriptors: Campuses, Intervention, Violence, Bullying
Amodei, Nancy; Taylor, Elizabeth R.; Hoffman, Tom; Madrigal, Anna; Biever, Joan; Cardenas, Fred – 1998
Noting that early childhood education is one tool for violence prevention, this study examined the effectiveness of a preschool violence prevention program in influencing the knowledge and attitudes of Head Start teachers in a rural, heavily Hispanic, southern Texas community. Head Start teachers were nonrandomly assigned to a control group, a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conflict Resolution, Faculty Development, Hispanic Americans