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Ryan Braun – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite significant cultural attention on the phenomenon of school shootings, one of the most predictive dimensions of these tragedies is under-analyzed: gender. Men commit 98% of mass shootings, but robust discussion and research on this relationship is lacking. This dissertation investigates the relationship between masculinity and gun violence…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Weapons, Violence, Higher Education
Hailey Ann Hermosa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The view that colleges are generally safe has been challenged by threats of violence on campuses across the country, causing fear among stakeholders. Community college faculty are not immune to crime-related fear on campus; however, the research has largely ignored this population. This research serves to fill that gap. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Safety, Campuses, College Faculty
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Highberger, James; Wang, Wenjin; Brittingham, Rochelle – Journal of School Violence, 2022
Scholars have explored ways in which school shooting events have impacted students' perception of safety. However, less is known on whether the effects of school shootings are stable across time and event. This study uses data collected through the Delaware School Survey before and after three school shootings, Columbine (1999), Virginia Tech…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Weapons, Student Attitudes
Jonita R. Shabazz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Historically, students of color have experienced an increased risk for exclusionary discipline outcomes (Children's Defense Fund, 1975). Discipline disproportionality continues to be a major problem in our schools today (McIntosh et al., 2018). The focus of most of the research has been on African American males; however, African American females…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Discipline, African American Students, Females
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Burnette, Anna Grace; Konold, Timothy; Cornell, Dewey – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Virginia law mandates the use of threat assessment in all public schools, yet there is little research on grade-level differences. This study investigated a statewide sample of 3,282 threats from 1,021 schools. Threats significantly differed across grade level in demographics, characteristics, and outcome. As grade increased, students were more…
Descriptors: School Safety, Violence, Public Schools, Elementary Schools
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Crichlow-Ball, Caroline; Cornell, Dewey; Huang, Francis – Journal of School Violence, 2022
National debate over law enforcement in schools has largely overlooked student reporting of violent threats to school resource officer (SROs). This statewide assessment of Virginia high school students (n = 99,358) found that the majority of Black (64%), Hispanic (72%), White (71%), and other racial/ethnic identity (71%) students agreed the SRO…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, High School Students, Police School Relationship, School Security
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Cuellar, Matthew J. – Journal of School Violence, 2018
Recent incidents of school-based violence have resulted in the widespread implementation of school safety strategies across the United States. While research on these strategies has grown over the past decade, there is little understanding about their collective influence on indicators of school violence. Using data from the 2007-2008 School…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Factor Analysis, Intervention
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Mancini, Christina; Cook, Amy K.; Smith, Jessica C.; McDougle, Robyn – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Recently, states have enacted teacher-carry laws. While controversial, little scholarship has tapped public attitudes toward such reforms. Because public opinion shapes policy, the public is an important stakeholder in this debate. Thus, we investigated three questions. First, how supportive is the public of arming teachers? Second, what…
Descriptors: Weapons, Teacher Role, School Safety, Public Opinion
Morse, Andrew; Sisneros, Lauren; Perez, Zeke; Sponsler, Brian A. – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2016
"Guns on Campus: The Architecture and Momentum of State Policy Action" offers a detailed summary of state legislative action and higher education system policy decisions that have occurred in two specific categories: (1) States that have permitted or are seeking to permit guns on campus; and (2) States that have prohibited or are seeking…
Descriptors: Weapons, Gun Control, Educational Policy, Public Policy
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Cornell, Dewey; Maeng, Jennifer L.; Burnette, Anna Grace; Jia, Yuane; Huang, Francis; Konold, Timothy; Datta, Pooja; Malone, Marisa; Meyer, Patrick – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
Threat assessment has been widely endorsed as a school safety practice, but there is little research on its implementation. In 2013, Virginia became the first state to mandate student threat assessment in its public schools. The purpose of this study was to examine the statewide implementation of threat assessment and to identify how threat…
Descriptors: School Safety, State Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, School Surveys
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Harwood, Valerie – Curriculum Inquiry, 2011
One of the numerous responses to the mass shooting at Virginia Tech in April 2007 has been the call for higher education institutions in the United States to take an increased role in identifying troubled students. This has had widely felt effects, with educational institutions across the United States developing mechanisms such as Threat…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Violence, Schools, Depression (Psychology)
Lyttle, LeighAnne – Online Submission, 2012
On April 16, 2007, Seung Hui Cho, a livid and mentally ill student, shot to death 32 students and faculty of Virginia Tech, wounded many more people, and then killed himself. This incident has impacted college and university campuses nationwide in efforts to seek mentally disturbed students and help them, to have effective emergency teams, as well…
Descriptors: Campuses, Violence, Emotional Disturbances, Mental Health
Virginia Department of Education, 2015
The Virginia Board of Education's "Student Conduct Policy Guidelines" were first developed in 1994 in response to action by the 1993 General Assembly requiring the Virginia Board of Education to establish such guidelines. In 2004, the "Guidelines" underwent a major revision in response to requirements of § 22.1-279.6. of the…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Discipline Policy, School Policy, State Policy
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Borum, Randy; Cornell, Dewey G.; Modzeleski, William; Jimerson, Shane R. – Educational Researcher, 2010
School shootings have generated great public concern and fostered a widespread impression that schools are unsafe for many students; this article counters those misapprehensions by examining empirical evidence of school and community violence trends and reviewing evidence on best practices for preventing school shootings. Many of the school safety…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Prevention, Crisis Management
Virginia Department of Education, 2011
The "Code of Virginia" requires school divisions statewide to submit data to the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) on incidents of discipline, crime, and violence (DCV). School divisions began reporting such data in 1991. This annual report focuses primarily on DCV data submitted for school year 2008-2009, with selected comparisons…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Crime, Weapons, Discipline
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