What Can Be Done About School Shootings?: A Review of the Evidence
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Keywords
at-risk students, school psychology, school shootings, student behavior/attitudes, threat assessment, violence
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X09357620
Abstract
School shootings have generated great public concern and fostered a widespread impression that schools are unsafe for many students; this article counters those misapprehensions by examining empirical evidence of school and community violence trends and reviewing evidence on best practices for preventing school shootings. Many of the school safety and security measures deployed in response to school shootings have little research support, and strategies such as zero tolerance discipline and student profiling have been widely criticized as unsound practices. Threat assessment is identified as a promising strategy for violence prevention that merits further study. The article concludes with an overview of the need for schools to develop crisis response plans to prepare for and mitigate such rare events.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Educational Researcher, v. 39, issue 1, p. 27-37
Scholar Commons Citation
Borum, Randy; Cornell, Dewey; Modzeleski, William; and Jimerson, Shane, "What Can Be Done About School Shootings?: A Review of the Evidence" (2009). Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications. 534.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mhlp_facpub/534
