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Brent R. Klein; Joshua D. Freilich; Steven M. Chermak – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2023
The American School Shooting Study (TASSS) is an ongoing mixed-method project funded by the National Institute of Justice to catalog US school shootings. It has amassed data based on open sources and other public materials dating back to 1990. This brief presents new insights from TASSS, diving deeper into the database's potential to examine the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Weapons, School Violence, Crime
Ilfiandra, Ilfiandra; Saripudin, Mohamad – Journal of Peace Education, 2023
In recent decades, numerous studies have been conducted on children's understanding of peace and war. Geographic, economic, political, cultural, and social differences influence the concepts of war and peace. This study aims at examining this effect. In addition to comparing studies conducted in Western countries, the study aims to examine early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, War, Peace
Ingoldsby, Carrie Frances – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative, exploratory study examined perceptions of preparedness among entry-level student affairs professionals for an active shooter event (ASE) on campus. Institutions of higher education (IHE) have experienced an uptick of deadly and destructive ASEs in the last two decades. Colleges and universities vary on whether they provide…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Attitudes, Readiness, Weapons
Patrick Rafail – Youth & Society, 2024
Between 2014 and 2018, at least 974 youth were fatally shot by the police. Racial disparities in fatal police shootings (FPS) have been well-established in existing research, but less attention has been paid to patterns in fatal police encounters with youth. This study uses a multisource and externally validated research design to track cases of…
Descriptors: Weapons, Death, Police, Police Community Relationship
Esther Lee; Sarah M. Stilwell; Heather Murphy; Shiying Mai; Justin Heinze – Youth & Society, 2024
Firearm-related violence is the leading cause of death for adolescents and can have lifelong ramifications, including to one's mental health and well-being. Through a scoping review of existing literature published since 1980, the current study describes nuanced pathways through which exposure to firearm violence (direct or indirect) can…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Adolescents
Benjamin P. Comer; Eric J. Connolly; Matthew B. Fuller – Journal of School Violence, 2024
While previous studies have assessed public opinions for arming teachers in K-12 schools in the United States, comparatively less research has focused on understanding teachers' opinions for such policies and assessed whether and to what extent school- and individual-level factors are associated with differences in support. The current study aims…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Weapons, School Safety
Liu, Ruying; Zhu, Runhe; Becerik-Gerber, Burcin; Lucas, Gale M.; Southers, Erroll G. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Video-based training has been widely adopted by private organizations and public authorities to educate occupants on various types of building emergencies. However, the effectiveness of video-based training for preparing occupants for building emergencies has not been rigorously studied nor has the impact of emergency type been…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Training, Program Effectiveness, Buildings
Whitney H. Mascaro – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Previous literature suggests that students who feel unsafe in their academic settings experience harmful academic, social, and psychological ramifications. With an alarming increase in school shootings, violence, and media coverage, the political discourse surrounding gun violence and strategies to ensure safety on college campuses has become…
Descriptors: College Students, Safety, Crime, Weapons
Peim, Nick; Stock, Nicholas – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
This article considers a series of ideas disturbing the conventional wisdom that decrees education an essential force in saving the world. Taking Morton's descriptions of hyperobjects seriously, we consider his radical idea that the world has ended amidst the eco-political depredations of the Anthropocene. Accordingly, we claim that education in…
Descriptors: Climate, Neoliberalism, Educational Philosophy, Plastics
Levinsky, Zachary – Journal of Education Policy, 2022
Lockdowns have become a ubiquitous solution to the problems posed by school safety and dealing with an active shooter. However, the emergence of this new technique has not been adequately discussed or theorized. The present article will address this gap by using a school board in Canada as an empirical site to map out how the turn to risk…
Descriptors: School Safety, Caring, Risk Management, Weapons
John T. Boehm – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Colleges are charged with providing safe and secure campus environments, which are conducive to learning for all students. It is the duty of the college leadership to ensure that their campuses are not only visually appealing, but also that they ensure the safety of all. Recent events have shown that efforts to protect our campuses and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Safety, School Security, Teacher Attitudes
Tanner, John Garrett; Kelemen, William L. – Journal of School Violence, 2023
We assessed college students' perceptions of safety related to concealed carry of firearms on a university campus. Explicit assessments were collected before passage, before implementation, and after implementation of the law; implicit assessments were collected before and after implementation. For comparison, we included college students from a…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, College Environment, Weapons
Yamana, Jun – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2023
This paper focuses on the play, "Pictures of That Summer ('Ano natsu no e')," which is inspired by the "Paintings of the Atomic Bomb" project in Hiroshima. Through an analysis of its dramatization, the paper develops a theoretical framework for investigating the generation of the collective memory of catastrophes through works…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Weapons, Trauma
Elizabeth K. Love – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School security is an issue faced by all school districts. Some school districts in the state of Missouri made the decision to arm members of their staff to provide an additional layer of defense. This qualitative study looks at the lived experiences of PK-12 school staff members who carry a concealed weapon for Shield Solutions. The participants…
Descriptors: Experience, Weapons, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Eli Ben-Michael; David Arbour; Avi Feller; Alex Franks; Steven Raphael – Grantee Submission, 2023
Gun violence is a critical public safety concern in the United States. In 2006 California implemented a unique firearm monitoring program, the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS), to address gun violence in the state. The APPS program first identifies those firearm owners who be-come prohibited from owning one due to federal or state law,…
Descriptors: Weapons, Crime Prevention, Violence, Safety