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Robinson, Ryan Randall – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study determined the perceptions of school administrators who work at rural schools in Illinois classified as distant and remote on whether they need to be allowed to carry concealed weapons in order to protect themselves and their students by responding against armed intruders with deadly force. An existential conceptual/theoretical…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, School Safety, Weapons, Violence
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2013
As U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan works with other Obama administration officials on policy responses to the shootings at a Connecticut elementary school, he brings a personal and professional history that has acquainted him with the impact of gun violence. As schools chief in Chicago from 2001 to 2008, he was affected by the gun deaths…
Descriptors: Weapons, Gun Control, Advocacy, Violence
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Bennett, Laura; Bates, Michael – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2015
This article provides an overview of the research on targeted violence, including campus violence, and the implications for policy and practice at institutions of higher education. Unique challenges of threat assessment in the community college setting are explored, and an overview of an effective threat assessment policy and team at William…
Descriptors: Violence, College Environment, Higher Education, School Policy
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Allen, Andrea N.; Lo, Celia C. – Crime & Delinquency, 2012
Guided by Anderson's theory of the code of the street, this study explored social mechanisms linking individual-level disadvantage factors with the adoption of beliefs grounded in the code of the street and with drug trafficking and gun carrying--the co-occurring behavior shaping violence among young men in urban areas. Secondary data were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Weapons, Urban Areas, Violence
Flynn, Joseph; Kemp, Andrew; Madrid, Samara – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
In this article, the authors as assistant professors of teaching and learning at Northern Illinois University react to the campus killings. They share their stories and sentiments regarding the campus killings. They state that their prayers and condolences go out to their campus, to the families of the lost and wounded, and the family of the young…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, School Safety, Violence
Sander, Libby – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
At even the best-prepared universities, there is no playbook for handling the crush of tough decisions that comes after a mass shooting rocks an otherwise quiet campus. While colleges and universities have always had tragedies, recent occurences like the shootings at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech have fundamentally changed the way…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Violence, School Safety, School Security