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Jacob D. Skousen; Isaac Calvert; Spencer C. Weiler; Sterling Hilton; Jason Kopanke; Luke M. Cornelius – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2024
The issue of school safety has been interrogated as school shootings have occurred multiple times each year in the United States. This devastating reality has captured the attention of many throughout the United States. School leaders have implemented strategies to increase school safety, including the creation of practices to deter shooting…
Descriptors: Weapons, School Violence, School Security, School Policy
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Kay S. Varela; Janice Iwama; Miner P. Marchbanks III; Krystlelynn Caraballo; Anthony A. Peguero; Jamilia Blake; John M. Eason; Jun Sung Hong – Journal of School Violence, 2024
Immigration disparities are associated with strict school climates and juvenile justice. Place also matters concerning school strictness and disproportionate minority contact for minority youth. What remains unknown is the relationship between school strictness, immigration, and punishment along the Texas-Mexico border. Drawing from the Texas…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, School Violence, Discipline Policy, Geographic Location
Cradit, Nathaniel W. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech is one part of a decades-long increase in the frequency of gun violence on U.S. college and university campuses (Drysdale, Modzeleski, & Simons, 2010; Ferraro, 2015). The events at Virginia Tech also served as a catalyst for the spread of so-called "campus-carry" laws, or acts of state policy…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, College Environment, Higher Education
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Downes, Meredith – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2017
A review of the literature on corporate governance serves to demonstrate the applicability of many governance solutions to the university setting. Based on a review of university scandals, most of which are recent but some of which took place decades ago, it is possible to categorize them as follows: sex scandals, drugs, cheating, hazing,…
Descriptors: Colleges, Governance, Ethics, Reputation
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Kelly, Don R. – Children & Schools, 2016
Bullying is prevalent in our culture and can be recognizable through a competitive, capitalistic economy and a dominance hierarchy. Based on dominance, bullying continues to be a problem in our public schools as witnessed through nationally televised stories in Colorado (Columbine), Vermont (Ryan Halligan), and Missouri (Megan Meier), to name a…
Descriptors: Bullying, Legal Responsibility, State Legislation, Child Safety
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Temple, Jeff R.; Le, Vi D.; Muir, Alexandra; Goforth, Laurie; McElhany, Amy L. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2013
Schools have several competing demands, and often suffer from inefficient access to needed resources. Thus, the addition of any program into an already overtaxed school system must be met with convincing evidence that 1) a need or problem exists and is relevant to the education of students, 2) the problem is amenable to change, and 3) addressing…
Descriptors: Dating (Social), Violence, Prevention, Adolescents
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Bouffard, Jeffrey A.; Nobles, Matt R.; Wells, William; Cavanaugh, Michael R. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Among other arguments, advocates for lifting bans on carrying concealed handguns on campus propose that this would increase the prevalence of legitimately carried handguns, which might then deter crimes or be used to intervene in campus shooting incidents like the one that took place at Virginia Tech in 2007. Opponents suggest that increased…
Descriptors: College Students, Campuses, Incidence, Weapons
Domain, Melinda Willoughby – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This qualitative phenomenological study employed narrative inquiry to describe the decision-making processes that Texas school districts followed in enacting firearms policies that allow school employees to carry concealed weapons on district property. Exploration of the lived experiences of eight Texas superintendents in such schools contributed…
Descriptors: Decision Making, School Districts, Weapons, Gun Control
Piet DeLaTorre, Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2011
It is clear that the tragic events at Virginia Tech and other institutions of higher education (IHEs) have brought threat assessment to the forefront of higher education literature and increased public concern for campus safety. IHEs have a profound duty to learn from the Virginia Tech tragedy and to recognize their responsibility in providing a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, School Security, Safety
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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
Fowler, Deborah – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Unsupported fears of youth violence in schools has led to an expansion of school-based policing and zero tolerance discipline. The historical reality is that America's public schools are very safe, even when located in high crime neighborhoods. Yet, school discipline is becoming increasingly punitive, moving from the schoolhouse to the courthouse.…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, School Policy, Zero Tolerance Policy, Violence