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Examining Adolescent Maltreatment and Connections to School Engagement
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Mielityinen, Laura; Ellonen, Noora; Ikonen, Riikka; Paavilainen, Eija – Improving Schools, 2023
This article examines how maltreatment experienced by adolescents is related to school engagement. Maltreatment includes physical, mental, and sexual violence along with sexual harassment, neglect, and witnessing domestic violence. School engagement refers to the students' relationship to all activities in the school. It describes students'…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Child Neglect, Child Abuse, Learner Engagement
Can Being Victimized Verbally and Physically Predict Aggressive Verbal and Physical Behavior?: A Study on Omani Male and Female Middle School
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Hammoud, Muhammad Sheikh; Abu-Hilal, Maher M.; Al-Lawati, Suad M.; Al-Bahrani, Muna M.; Al Rujaibi, Yousuf – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2021
The aim of this study was to examine if perceived family violence of victimized children is related to their perceived aggressive behavior. It has been acknowledged that children learn and behave what they observe and practice including violence. A stratified random sample (N =1160) of Omani school students was drawn from grades 6 to 9. The study…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Prediction, Family Violence, Aggression
An Examination of Teachers' Perceptions of Factors that May Lead Students with Disabilities in Grades 6-12 to Become Delinquent or Incarcerated
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Rachel Sims Cook – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined why students with disabilities have a strong presence in the juvenile justice system and measures to prevent or reduce the school-to-prison pipeline. The study utilized a Teacher Questionnaire on Delinquency to compare middle and high school teachers perceptions' of risk factors of delinquency for students with disabilities.…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, At Risk Students
Violence in School: An Investigation of Physical, Psychological, and Sexual Victimization Reported by Italian Adolescents
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Longobardi, Claudio; Prino, L. E.; Fabris, Matteo Angelo; Settanni, Michele – Journal of School Violence, 2019
In Italy, numerous studies have been carried out regarding the phenomenon of bullying; however, studies on single incidences of sexual, physical, and psychological victimization at school remain scant. Therefore the aim of this study is to examine the phenomenon of scholastic violence with a broader perspective, as well as all the possible…
Descriptors: Violence, Bullying, Foreign Countries, Middle School Students
Protective Factors for Violent Victimization in Schools: A Gendered Analysis
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Pusch, Natasha – Journal of School Violence, 2019
While the link between childhood abuse and future victimization has been developed, the effects of other negative events in childhood on future victimization, and whether protective factors may guard against it, remains unclear. To address this topic, the relationships between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), protective factors, and violent…
Descriptors: Violence, Victims, Grade 8, Grade 10
Gendering Corporal Punishment: Beyond the Discourse of Human Rights
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Humphreys, Sara – Gender and Education, 2008
In the last few years the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children has been gathering momentum, with a submission to "The United Nations Secretary General's study on violence against children" the most recent addition to the cause. Nevertheless, corporal punishment in schools is still condoned in many countries and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Punishment