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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"school shootings"”.
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School Shootings and Mental Illness: A Moral Panic
… of mental illness with acts of mass violence in schools. I explore the relationship between the rhetoric of moral entrepreneurs (such as victims' friends and family members, law enforcement agencies, criminal justice and mental health professionals, gun rights activists, mayors, members of …
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Public school response to the trauma of school shootings.
Public school shootings in the United States have reached levels of epidemic concern. Current research related to U.S. school shootings addresses a variety of issues including historical analysis, political influences and policymaking, prevention efforts for school shootings, and risk factors for …
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The days after: music educators' responses to school shootings
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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School Shootings and Principals' Perception of Armed Personnel in an Education Setting
… education.</p> <p>The study looked at an urban school district with a marginalized community with low socioeconomic status as identified by the District Factor Group A. Twelve school principals were interviewed to gather information of their perceptions in relation to having armed personnel in …
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Mass School Shootings: Predicting the Usage of Firearms in Acts of School Violence
… increased media attention and associated fear, school shootings have become a major concern for the public. Attempts to predict and prevent shootings have been developed by a variety of government agencies such as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Bureau of …
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Leading in an era of school violence : a qualitative study of the impact of school shootings on school principals
This case study explored the impacts of school shootings on K-12 school principals. Eleven school principals and assistant principals from rural, suburban, and urban areas in all regions of the United States were interviewed. The study answered two research questions: What impact do school …
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An Examination of Media Accounts Before and After School Shootings: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Articles Pertaining to Firearms on Campus
… media's portrayal of concealed carry firearms on school campuses. A review of the current literature is presented regarding firearms, concealed carry firearms, and the theoretical foundation for the current study. Additionally, the current study presents a content analysis of 55 newspaper articles …
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Strain and the School Shooter: A Theoretical Approach to the Offender's Perspective
… inexplicable acts of mass violence such as school shootings. </p> <p>Incidents such as Columbine have culturally defined the public idea of a school shooting, sometimes creating the image of dark and angry teenagers stalking the hallways of every high school in America, all the while …
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School Counselors Lived Experience of a Rampage School Shooting
<p>Minimal research has been conducted to examine school counselors’ lived experiences of rampage school shootings. The purpose of this research is to increase school counselors’ knowledge and skills in responding effectively to such a crisis. A single-case qualitative dissertation study was …
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Student Perceptions of Active Shooters on Campus
… by an active shooter. Since 1996, nearly 60 school shootings have taken place in American schools, resulting in hundreds of deaths. This study examines the impact on students' fearfulness in the wake of the most recent mass murders happening on college campuses at Virginia Tech and Northern …
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K-12 and the Active Shooter: Principals’ Perceptions of Armed Personnel in New Jersey District Factor Group GH Public Schools
… of this study was to explore the predicament school principals face when formulating the best methodology to provide a safe environment for their students and faculty, while simultaneously creating an atmosphere that is conducive to education.</p> <p>This multiple-case study is a replication …
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Perspectives of SROs in Indiana on school safety and arming school personnel: a qualitative study
School safety has become a critical issue in the United States, exacerbated by a growing number of school shootings over the past two decades. Recent data indicates a significant rise in school-related gun incidents, prompting debates over the most effective strategies to protect students and …
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School-Based Social Workers Effect on Creating Safer Schools
With school shootings happening across the United States almost daily, the call for educators and researchers to understand how to prevent such violence is timely and necessary. While many associate school security with physical measures such as secure perimeters, metal detectors, and security …
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Every Parent's Worst Nightmare: Surveillance of Criteria-based, Rampage School Shooters, 1995-2015
<p>Rampage School Shootings are a violation of one’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of individual happiness. Little children, school teachers head out to school, only to never return home at the end of the day. Idiosyncratic psycho-social behaviors drive Rampage School Shooter (RSS) …
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Addressing The Need For Systemic Implementation of Social Emotional Learning
<p>Two alarming trends are on the rise in schools, the rise of school violence and school shootings, and our nation’s hyper-focus on academics and standardized test scores. I argue that schools have a societal responsibility as stewards of the public to prepare students academically, socially, and …
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Predicting Behavior from Psychopathic and Antisocial Personality Traits in a Student Sample.
… such behaviors, are reviewed in the context of school shootings such as the incident at Columbine High School.</p>
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Perceptions of school shooters: How the race of a school shooter and his video game playing habits influence observers’ explanatory attributions about his crime
… at causal explanations for instances of mass school shootings in the United States. Specifically, this study utilized a fictitious shooter vignette approach with a 2 (White vs. Black shooter) x 2 (shooter played violent vs. nonviolent video games) between-subject ANOVA to determine if these …
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Cheerleaders, jocks, nerds and "the man": popular representations of schooling in modern television
… for living for adolescents, and that they learn school-specific lessons from programs depicting a schooling environment. By analyzing three popular and current television programs and looking for school-specific character archetypes within those narratives, this study aims to determine what …
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