School Violence And Primary Prevenition

The 22 articles of this reference offer thoughtful analysis and insights into the complex issues that lead to and follow school violence ranging from playground bullies to mass school shootings. The articles are divided into two sections--theory, assessment, and forms of school violence, and treatment and prevention--and discuss the points of view of victims and perpetrators, with topics that include roles of morality development and personal power in school shootings, multiple contextual levels of risk for peer victimization, assessment of childhood sexual abuse, developmental issues in the prevention of aggression, and threat assessment in school violence. The authors, who are psychologists mainly in the U.S., report on statistical studies, current research, and their own specific research, making this an unusually substantial resource.