The Risk of School Rampage: Assessing and Preventing Threats of School Violence [electronic resource] /
Madfis, E.author.
By examining averted school rampage incidents, this work addresses problematic gaps in school violence scholarship and advances existing knowledge about mass murder, violence prevention, bystander intervention, threat assessment, and disciplinary policy in school contexts.
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Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; Research questions and background information on averted school rampage incidents; Explaining and reacting to school rampage; School rampage as a social problem; The causes of school rampage; Averted school rampage; Responding to rampage-current school disciplinary and security practices; Responding to rampage-violence risk assessment; Understanding school criminalization and risk assessment as actuarial justice; 2 Assessing the Substance and Risk of Student Rampage Threats
Distinguishing threats, risks, plots, and genuine aversionExamining the form and content of threats in averted rampage violence; Examining the levels of risk in averted rampage violence; Examining plots and planning in averted rampage violence; Examining the notion of aversion in rampage violence; The assessment of evidence in averted rampage violence; Assessing the plot's detail; Appraising the role of weaponry; Assessing the role of personal and group characteristics; Conclusion; 3 Confidence and Doubts about Assessing Averted Rampage Violence
Variations in confidence and doubt by risk assessment typeCertainty based on a convergence of risk assessment criteria; Certainty based on lack of threat assessment criteria; Certainty based on threat assessment criteria in spite of deviation from profiles; Remaining uncertainty despite risk assessment; Conclusion; 4 Preventing School Rampage Violence through Student Bystander Intervention and Positive School Environments; School rampage violence prevention and the student code of silence; Perceiving a diminished student code of silence since Columbine
Weakening the code of silence through positive school climateBreaking the code of silence-interventions through leakage; Indirectly informed bystanders; Directly informed confidants; Threatened targets; Involved co-conspirators; How interventions occurred and who was trusted; Following the code of silence-the persistence of bystander inaction; Implications of findings; Conclusion; 5 Summary of Findings, Policy Implications, and Future Research; Summary and implications of findings; Suggested areas for future research; 6 Methodological Appendix
Operationalizing school rampage and averted threatResearch design and sample; Complications of relying on the news media to build a sampling frame; On qualitative methodology; Generalizability in qualitative research; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
By examining averted school rampage incidents, this work addresses problematic gaps in school violence scholarship and advances existing knowledge about mass murder, violence prevention, bystander intervention, threat assessment, and disciplinary policy in school contexts.
Juvenile delinquents.
Criminology.
Education and state.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Sociology.
Educational policy.
Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Education Policy.
Social Theory.
Sociology, general.
Educational Policy and Politics.