Protecting the Learning Environment: Most Effective Evidence-Based School Violence Prevention and Intervention Practices
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 15013
Special Issue Editors
Interests: violence reduction in primary and secondary education; school social work; conflict transformation; restorative justice; restorative discipline; mental health assessment and intervention; diversity; social work practice and policy
Interests: social work; child welfare; criminal justice; juvenile justice
Interests: grandparents raising grandchildren; intergenerational programs and policies, nonprofit administration; social welfare policies; intergenerational reciprocity; intergenerational mobility
Interests: sexual and gender minority health disparities; interdisciplinary health research; gender role and identity development across the lifespan; feminism; intersectionality
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Social Sciences routinely releases Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics and build a community of authors/readers to discuss the latest research within these topics and develop new ideas and research directions. This Special Issue highlights current research efforts in school bullying, peer victimization, bully prevention, treatment, and intervention planning. After years of research, these topics continue to be important as school administrators and the faculty work together to provide a safe and peaceful atmosphere for learning. Addressing these problems and possible solutions can provide a gateway for teaching our children how to build a peaceful school environment and provide them with the knowledge for building a future peaceful society. Application of retributive measures, such as suspensions and loss of dispensations, may suppress misbehavior in the short-term context; however, evidence indicates enduring change is negligible (Chin, Dowdy, Jimerson, & Rime, 2012; Mullet, 2014). According to Mullet (2014), teaching positive behaviors and encouraging healthier decisions is crucial.
Schools throughout the world have responded with an invigorated effort to safeguard schools (Heinen, Webb-Dempsey, Moore, McClellan, & Friebel, 2007). Still, victimization rates for students at school aged 12 to 18 remain constant at 52 per 1000; the rate outside of the school environment is 38 victimizations per 1000 students, and approximately 85% of public schools recorded one or more crime occurrences at school (Morgan, Kemp, Rathbun, Robers, & Synder, 2014).
What are the most effective methods for reducing school violence? How can bullying tendencies be identified and deterred before the behavior becomes a problem? Are multiple prevention techniques more effective than single approaches? Although this is not an exhaustive list of questions in need of a response, the answers to these questions will add to the knowledge base.
Dr. Don R. Kelly
Dr. Marcus Crawford
Dr. Dorothea Ivey
Dr. Kris Hohn
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- victim treatment
- school-wide interventions
- bullying prevention and control
- office referrals
- suspension
- exclusionary discipline
- school climate
- emotional health
- sustainability
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