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Maki Weller, Nicole; de Mezerville-López, Claire M.; Pérez-Ramírez, Berenice; Ochoa, Theresa A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2023
Incarcerated girls have disproportionately higher rates of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse compared with their nonincarcerated peers. Failure to address this trauma and abuse can lead to mental health disabilities such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anti-social behaviors. Many girls who experience trauma engage…
Descriptors: Trauma, Females, Institutionalized Persons, Foreign Countries
Ponce de la Vega, Lidia – Hispania, 2021
This article explores gaming manifestations of the US-centric Mexican threat narrative in the context of the so-called drug war, by analyzing Manichean representations of characters, settings, and language (English and Spanish). It argues that videogames construct the concept of the Mexican subject in direct opposition to the US subject--in a…
Descriptors: Video Games, Ethnic Stereotypes, Drug Abuse, Criminals
Buchbinder, Dina – Childhood Education, 2022
As we work to educate our children in effective ways, supporting their efforts to make a positive difference reaps benefits for both students and society.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development, Play, Trauma
Crawshaw, Michael – Australian Journal of Education, 2015
This literature review of secondary school teachers' perceptions of student misbehaviour from 1983 to 2013 comprised studies from various countries including Australia, China, Greece, Jordan, Malta, the United Kingdom and the United States. Identified materials enabled international comparisons and the analysis of changes over time. Of the 20…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Student Behavior
Hipp, John R. – Crime & Delinquency, 2013
This study compares the relationship between official crime rates in census tracts and resident perceptions of crime. Using a unique data set that links household-level data from the American Housing Survey metro samples over 25 years (1976-1999) with official crime rate data for census tracts in selected cities during selected years, this study…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Crime, Surveys, Violence
Messitt, Maggie – Teaching Tolerance, 2013
In the 1999-2000 school year, only about 12 percent of U.S. public schools required their students to wear uniforms. Since then, the number of schools requiring uniforms has risen. Uniform policies are now in place at about a fifth of all public schools in the United States--but do school uniforms really level the playing field? New research has…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Student Behavior, School Uniforms, Low Income Groups
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)
Mongan, Philip; Walker, Robert – Preventing School Failure, 2012
With the passing of the Gun Free School Act of 1994, the 1990s bore witness to the birth of zero-tolerance policies. During the remainder of that decade, several school shootings occurred that solidified zero-tolerance in schools across the United States. With the possibility of threats constantly increasing, school personnel having a thorough…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, School Personnel, Zero Tolerance Policy
Zhang, Anlan; Musu-Gillette, Lauren; Oudekerk, Barbara A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
Our nation's schools should be safe havens for teaching and learning, free of crime and violence. Any instance of crime or violence at school not only affects the individuals involved, but also may disrupt the educational process and affect bystanders, the school itself, and the surrounding community (Brookmeyer, Fanti, and Henrich 2006;…
Descriptors: Crime, Violence, School Safety, National Surveys
Sun, Ivan Y.; Su, Mingyue; Wu, Yuning – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Domestic violence has emerged as a worldwide concern since the 1970s. Although a substantial amount of efforts have been devoted to assessing various aspects of domestic violence, a relatively small number of studies have empirically examined factors that shape public attitudes toward police response to such incidents. Even rarer is investigating…
Descriptors: College Students, Family Violence, Student Attitudes, Law Enforcement
Hankin, Abigail; Hertz, Marci; Simon, Thomas – Journal of School Health, 2011
Background: Multiple approaches exist, both in theory and in practice, to reduce young people's risk of violent victimization when they are in school. Among these approaches, a growing number of school districts are choosing to install metal detectors. We sought to review the literature available on the impacts of metal detectors on school…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, Safety, Public Health
Khoury-Kassabri, Mona; Sharvet, Rachel; Braver, Efi; Livneh, Chaim – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
This study assesses the outcomes of group intervention program with violent juveniles. The intervention is based on the ecological approach of Edleson and Tolman (1992). Forty-eight juveniles referred to the juvenile probation service because of violent crime completed the 16 sessions of the intervention. Participants completed questionnaires…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Crime, Evaluation
Braga, Anthony A.; Hureau, David M.; Papachristos, Andrew V. – Evaluation Review, 2011
Background: A small but growing body of research evidence suggests that place-based police interventions generate significant crime control gains. While place-based policing strategies have been adopted by a majority of U.S. police departments, very few agencies make a priori commitments to rigorous evaluations. Objective: Recent methodological…
Descriptors: Police, Program Effectiveness, Geographic Location, Crime
Ruddy, Sally A.; Bauer, Lynn; Neiman, Samantha – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
This report provides estimates of criminal incidents that occur at school. Incident-level data were obtained from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization and criminal incidents in the United States. The NCVS collects demographic information on respondents in the NCVS…
Descriptors: School Buses, Weapons, Violence, Crime
Escobar-Chaves, Soledad Liliana; Anderson, Craig A. – Future of Children, 2008
Liliana Escobar-Chaves and Craig Anderson investigate two important trends among American youth and examine the extent to which the two trends might be related. First, the authors note that U.S. youth are spending increasing amounts of time using electronic media, with the average American youngster now spending one-third of each day with some…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies, Health Behavior, At Risk Persons