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Valois, Robert F.; McKewon, Robert E. – American Journal of Health Behavior, 1998
Examined the frequency and correlates of adolescent violent behaviors. Data from the 1992 South Carolina Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicated that 47% of adolescent males and 13% of adolescent females carried weapons, and large numbers reported fighting. The strongest predictors of fighting and weapon carrying were alcohol and drug use, and sexual…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Public Schools, Racial Differences
Bjorklun, Eugene C. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1996
Examines two legal issues related to the use of metal detectors in public schools: their legality under the Fourth Amendment and the potential liability of schools who fail to use them to keep weapons out of their buildings. (91 footnotes) (MLF)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Responsibility, Public Schools

Kelley, Colleen E. – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1988
Examines some of the rhetorical choices of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev which dramatize Soviet calls for nuclear weapons de-escalation. Speculates that Gorbachev's peace efforts are sincere, because they are motivated by twin crises of a failing economy and a threatened world community. (MS)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Disarmament, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries

Carpenter, Wade A. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 1998
Teachers are rarely prepared for violence, and their idealism may undermine credibility and lead to disillusionment. Reality, therefore, must inform theory to equip educators with action-based solutions. Teachers need adequate preparation on handling students who bring weapons to school. The paper presents principles to ponder regarding school…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Antisocial Behavior, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Behavior

Murnan, Judy; Dake, Joseph A.; Price, James H. – Journal of School Health, 2004
This study examined relationships between variation in child and adolescent firearm mortality by state and the following variables: childhood poverty rate, percent single parent families, percent population that is African American, percent population that is Hispanic. percent students carrying a gun, percent students carrying a weapon, percent…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), One Parent Family, Urban Areas, Ownership
Chung, Gregory K. W. K.; O'Neil, Harold F.; Delacruz, Girlie C.; Bewley, William L. – Educational Assessment, 2005
In this study we examined the role of anxiety on novices' performance on the psychomotor task of rifle marksmanship. The stages-of-skill-development model suggests that aptitude influences performance while learning a skill; however, the model does not address the role of affect. Assessments for state anxiety and state worry were administered to…
Descriptors: Weapons, Performance Factors, Performance Tests, Psychomotor Skills
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
DeSpain, Matt – American Indian Quarterly, 2003
It is a point well documented in American history, and well remembered, that the firearm has been a favorite tool wielded by Euroamericans to subdue, colonize, and silence Native Americans since the two groups first met. Anyone exercising a modicum of intellect can easily compile their own mental count of past atrocities by racist-minded,…
Descriptors: United States History, Weapons, American Indians, Museums
Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed.; Evinger, Sara, Ed. – California Childcare Health Program, 2007
This curriculum was first published in June 1998 to be used by qualified health and safety trainers to fulfill part of the learning needs and licensing requirements of child care providers (Health and Safety Code, Section 1596.866) in California. This second and updated edition of Module 2, Prevention of Injuries, covers the content of the…
Descriptors: Prevention, Injuries, Child Care, Child Health
Valois, Robert F.; Paxton, Raheem J.; Zullig, Keith J.; Huebner, E. Scott – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2006
We explored relationships between violent behaviors and perceived life satisfaction among 2,138 middle school students in a southern state using the CDC Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (MSYRBS) and the Brief Multidimensional Student Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS). Logistic regression analyses and multivariate models constructed…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Intervals, Life Satisfaction, At Risk Students
Frye, Victoria; Manganello, Jennifer; Campbell, Jacquelyn C.; Walton-Moss, Benita; Wilt, Susan – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
It has been proposed that two distinct forms of intimate partner violence exist: intimate terrorism and situational couple violence. This article describes the distribution of factors that characterize intimate terrorism and situational couple violence, including controlling behaviors, violence escalation, and injury, among a representative sample…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Family Violence, Females, Spouses
Thomas, Everett L., Jr.; Deem, Robert N. – 1984
The objective of the unified database (UDB) program was to develop an automated information system that would be useful in the design, development, testing, and support of new Air Force aircraft weapon systems. Primary emphasis was on the development of: (1) a historical logistics data repository system to provide convenient and timely access to…
Descriptors: Aviation Technology, Databases, Design Requirements, Information Storage

Villa, Brian Loring – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1975
If the scientists working on the Manhattan Project had realized the consequences of the atomic bomb earlier, formulated their recommendations more precisely, and approached the statesmen in time, American policy on use and control of the bomb might well have been different. (Author/BT)
Descriptors: History, International Relations, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Warfare
Finegold, Lawrence S.; And Others – 1984
The research and development project demonstrated the viability of a simulated training system to address training issues related to three-dimensional air intercept tactics and geometry, and resulted in the production of two videotapes for use in the United States Air Force Interceptor Weapons School. An introduction discusses the overall…
Descriptors: Animation, Computer Software, Display Systems, Instructional Materials
Swain, Bruce M. – 1982
In the "United States v. the 'Progressive'," the United States government took a small left-wing magazine to court to prevent publication of an article on how a hydrogen bomb works. Amidst great controversy over what the article described and what data were secret and what were not, a federal judge granted an injunction against the…
Descriptors: Censorship, Court Litigation, Freedom of Speech, Journalism