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Bindi Naik-Mathuria; Ned Levine; Cary Cain; Abiodun O. Oluyomi; Mike Henson-Garcia; Lisa Pompeii – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2021
Injury by firearm is now the leading cause of death in children in the U.S.. Effective injury prevention requires first defining the problem and identifying risk and protective factors before implementing prevention strategies. There is no comprehensive source available to define firearm injuries, especially at the local level. We propose a local…
Descriptors: Injuries, Prevention, Weapons, Death
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Holmes, Hayden L.; Brewer, Lauren E.; Kerr, Stacey A. – Journal of American College Health, 2019
Objective: This study assessed whether college students felt less safe or were less likely to work with another student when they thought the person they would work with was carrying a handgun than when they did not. Participants: Seventy participants were recruited from a public US university where campus carry was legal. Methods: Participants…
Descriptors: Weapons, Safety, Interpersonal Relationship, Public Health
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DePaoli, Jennifer; McCombs, Jennifer – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
A rise in the number of school shootings over time has driven increasing attention to school safety. However, school shootings are not the only physical safety threat students may encounter at school. Other types of violence include sexual assault, robbery, physical attack or fights, and threats of physical attack (with or without a weapon). In…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Aggression, Crime
Colorado Children's Campaign, 2023
Schools should be safe places for young people, educators, school staff, and community members, and policies and practices can help create learning environments where kids thrive. Gun violence in U.S. schools has prompted calls for increased school safety measures; however, which policies contribute to safe school environments is often a topic of…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Violence, Weapons, Evidence Based Practice
Elder, Terri M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Theories abound on why school shootings occur. Current literature centers on shooter profiles and rarely focuses on where the shootings occur. This study investigates the relationship between impoverished schools and if those schools are more likely to experience a school shooting than non-impoverished schools. Four factors of poverty were…
Descriptors: Correlation, Disadvantaged Schools, Poverty Areas, School Violence
Katherine A. Eberhardt – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore the commonalities between school shooters to gain a better understanding of ways to prevent school shootings. The research question was, Understanding the behavioral impact of a maldeveloped or damaged prefrontal cortex, striatum, and amygdala as contributors of psychopathy, to what extent is the…
Descriptors: Violence, Criminals, Prevention, Psychopathology
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Jonson, Cheryl Lero; Moon, Melissa M.; Hendry, Joseph A. – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Two paradigms inform responses to active shooting situations: a traditional lockdown approach where individuals find cover in a classroom and lock the door, and a multi-option approach where individuals evacuate the area, create barricades, and, in last resort situations, actively resist the gunman. While a majority of schools conduct active…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Educational Environment, Crisis Management
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Suárez, Mario I.; Asadi, Lobat; Scaramuzzo, Peter; Slattery, Patrick; Mandala, Chad R. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2021
Given the increase of gun violence in the United States, teachers are left with the added obligation of helping students process traumatic events. The present study seeks to address the following questions: What are some ways in which students process grief through arts-based methods? What can we observe through photovoice, a community-based…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Violence, Weapons, Coping
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Hassett, Matthew R.; Kim, Bitna – Journal of School Violence, 2021
This study examined attitudes toward campus carry -- a policy that would permit individuals to carry concealed firearms on a university's grounds if they possess a permit. Survey data were collected from a sample of 1,380 members of a campus community -- undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff -- at a medium-sized public…
Descriptors: Campuses, Weapons, Universities, School Policy
Pahl M. Goff – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Little is known about how a college mass shooting affects faculty and staff survivors. The purpose of this study was to better understand how the experience of a college mass shooting affected the lives of faculty and staff involved in the incident. This study examined, in-depth, the personal accounts of six college staff and faculty who had…
Descriptors: College Faculty, School Personnel, Weapons, Crime
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Behavioral Disorders, 2024
The recent increase in school shootings has brought about an urgency to renew efforts to understand and reduce them. In this article, the Division for Emotional and Behavioral Health reviews what is known about school shootings, including data related to incidence and shooter profiles. In addition, we describe responses to shootings, accompanied…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, School Safety, Emotional Disturbances
Olga V. Sims – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of the study was to analyze the historical patterns in the relationship between specific types of disabilities and frequency of drug abuse or weapon offenses in public schools in the United States using the U.S. Department of Education Open Data Platform's (n.d.) data sets from 2011-2012 through 2020-2021. The problem is that students…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Students with Disabilities, Drug Use, Weapons
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Weiler, Spencer C.; Cornelius, Luke M.; Skousen, Jacob D. – Rural Educator, 2018
As a result of extensive media coverage, the tragedies at Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary School, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are etched into the collective memory of American society. Shortly after the events at Sandy Hook, the National Rifle Association (NRA) presented a program to address student safety by arming…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, School Safety, Teacher Role
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Jackson, Brian A.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Moore, Pauline; Schwartz, Heather L. – RAND Corporation, 2023
Shooting incidents at kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) schools in the United States have sparked calls to increase security or adopt altogether new approaches to school safety. These approaches include allowing teachers or staff to carry firearms in some schools. To learn what teachers across the United States think about school safety…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Safety, School Security, Weapons
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Koepke, Deanna Jacobsen; Thomas, David A.; Manning, Alexis – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2019
Research has been conducted for several decades on the framing of stories in the media. This study furthers that field by analyzing the way newspaper articles report on the deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of law enforcement and security personnel between 1999 and 2017 to determine if local and national print media frame these…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Newspapers, Death, Police
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