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Brown, Brande; Ruggles, Kelly V.; Le, Francesca T.; Rajan, Sonali – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Among adolescents, the pathway from being offered drugs to engaging in drug use has been established. The prevalence of drug transactions specifically in schools is less understood. The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of adolescents who have reported drug transaction experiences (being offered, sold, or given an…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Adolescents, High School Students, Incidence
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Kiilakoski, Tomi; Oksanen, Atte – New Directions for Youth Development, 2011
Two case examples of school shootings in Finland illustrate the interplay between the distal, international influence of the Columbine shooting and the more immediate impact of local peer interactions involving both peer bullying at school and peer encouragement of violence through the Internet. Both cases involved emotionally troubled young men…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Violence, Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences
Maryland State Department of Education, 2012
This report contains revised data on the number of incidents in each Maryland local school system and school during the 2010-11 school year. The data have been disaggregated by gender and race. The incident counts for students with disabilities are also reported. Student incident data are available for reporting by Out-of-School Suspensions and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Suspension, Expulsion, Attendance
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Black, Sally; Hausman, Alice – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2008
Firearms account for the majority of deaths among young Black men in America. This article presents a qualitative investigation of youth temptations, emotional reactions, and subsequent behavior with respect to guns. Twenty-three youth enrolled in a community-based firearm reduction program have participated in interviews on retrospective…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Weapons, Adolescents, Violence
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Kuntsche, Emmanuel N.; Klingemann, Harald K.-H. – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
After reviewing prevalence rates, this work tries to identify gender specific groups in which weapon-carrying occurs in the context of victim and offender related violent behaviours. [kappa]-Means cluster and logistic regression analyses were calculated, based on a cross-sectional survey of a national representative sample of 1549 15-year-olds as…
Descriptors: Weapons, Schools, Incidence, Victims of Crime