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Jiménez-Villamizar, María P.; Campo-Arias, Adalberto; Caballero-Domínguez, Carmen C. – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
The purpose of this study is to identify the prevalence and factors associated with weapon carrying in Colombian high-school students. A cross-sectional study was designed to analyze this phenomenon among students aged between 13 and 17 years. A sample of 1462 students participated, 18.46% of which reported having planned suicide, 56.16% reported…
Descriptors: Weapons, Incidence, High School Students, Marijuana
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Beck, Bernard – Multicultural Perspectives, 2019
Contradictions between precious ideals and social realities are often handled by locating the problems of inequality in a limited setting, so that the rest of social life will not be disturbed. Racial inequality in America, starting with slavery, is concretely expressed in the troubled relations between agencies of social control, like the police,…
Descriptors: African Americans, Racial Bias, Social Bias, United States History
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de Carvalho, Thaís – Global Studies of Childhood, 2021
In Andean countries, the "pishtaco" is understood as a White-looking man that steals Indigenous people's organs for money. In contemporary Amazonia, the Shipibo-Konibo people describe the "pishtaco" as a high-tech murderer, equipped with a sophisticated laser gun that injects electricity inside a victim's body. This paper looks…
Descriptors: Whites, Males, American Indians, Weapons
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Welsh, Richard O. – Educational Policy, 2022
School discipline is a salient challenge in K-12 districts nationwide. The majority of prior studies have focused on suspensions with relatively little attention paid to other forms of exclusionary discipline. This mixed-methods study provides a descriptive analysis of overlooked disciplinary consequences, namely, assignment to alternative…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Hearings, School Districts, Nontraditional Education
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Isralowitz, Richard; Reznik, Alexander – Religious Education, 2015
Alcohol use and risk-taking behavior among 345 male adolescents from three Israeli secular (n = 168) and three religious (n = 177) high schools were studied from 2009 to 2013. Findings show the positive impact religious education and religiosity have on minimizing alcohol use, binge drinking, school underachievement, violence, weapons possession,…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Religious Factors, Adolescents, Outcomes of Education
Kennedy-Paine, Cathy; Crepeau-Hobson, Franci – Communique, 2015
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a report entitled "A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013" (Blair and Schweit 2014). The goal of the study is to provide law enforcement with data so there is a better understanding how to prevent, prepare for, and recover from active shooter…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, School Psychologists, High Schools
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Schiller, Juliet – Educational Forum, 2013
What has been left out of studying school violence and shootings is a comprehensive look at the culture that creates violence and the lack of support for those deemed "different" in an educational setting that promotes and rewards competition. If parents, teachers, and other adults associated with children were teaching the values of…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, High School Students, Males
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DeLeon, Abraham P. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2012
School shootings loom large in the collective imagination and young, White males commit a majority of these horrific crimes. Although many of the descriptions of school shooters in the media and scholarly studies attribute their actions to psychological problems and/or personal/social failings, these events are also often placed in a comparative…
Descriptors: Violence, Crime, Criticism, Ghettos
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Achinewhu-Nworgu, Elizabeth; Nworgu, Chioma; Azaiki, Steve; Nworgu, Helen – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
This paper presents a mini research carried out by the Focus Learning Support (FLS) team on reasons why young black males in the community commit crime. Knife and gun crime is seen as a serious problem in the black community involving black males in the inner London city areas--many of whom are both victims and offenders of knife and gun crime.…
Descriptors: Males, African Americans, Youth, Crime
Bryant, Rhonda – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2013
In January 2013, President Obama released a plan for protecting children and communities by reducing gun violence. This plan has generated serious debate from both sides of the issue. The ensuing conversations about how to solve the issue of gun violence have been volatile. The President's plan includes reforms to close loopholes on background…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Poverty Areas, African Americans
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Vaughn, Michael G.; Perron, Brian E.; Abdon, Arnelyn; Olate, Rene; Groom, Ralph; Wu, Li-Tzy – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Weapon-related violence, especially the use of handguns, among adolescents is a serious public health concern. Using public-use data file from the adolescent sample (N = 17,842) in the 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), this study examines the behavioral, parental involvement, and prevention correlates of handgun carrying.…
Descriptors: Prevention, Public Health, Adolescents, Probability
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Lahti, Anniina; Rasanen, Pirkko; Riala, Kaisa; Keranen, Sirpa; Hakko, Helina – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2011
Background: There are only a few recent studies on secular trends in child and adolescent suicides. We examine here trends in rates and methods of suicide among young people in Finland, where suicide rates at these ages are among the highest in the world. Methods: The data, obtained from Statistics Finland, consisted of all suicides (n = 901)…
Descriptors: Females, Suicide, Drinking, Foreign Countries
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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
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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
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Light, David; Monk-Turner, Elizabeth – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
Much work in the area of male sexual assault and rape relies on small clinical samples. From these samples, researchers reported that most male victims were physically injured during the attack and that penetration occurred. This work rests on a subsample of 219 men from the 1994-1996 Violence and Threats of Violence Against Women and Men in the…
Descriptors: Violence, Rape, Females, Males
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