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 Student Threat Assessment as a Standard School Safety Practice: Results From a Statewide Implementation Study
NCJ Number
              253169

Author(s)
          Dewey. Cornell;
                        Jennifer Maeng;
                        Anna G. Burnette;
                        Yuane Jia;
                        Francis Huang;
                        Timothy Konold;
                        Pooja Datta;
                        Marisa Malone;
                        Patrick Myer
Date Published

2018
Length
              10 pages
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              The purpose of this study was to examine Virginia's statewide implementation of student threat assessment in the state's public schools and to identify how threat assessment teams distinguish serious from nonserious student threats.
Abstract
              Threat assessment has been widely endorsed as a school safety practice, but there is little research on its implementation. In 2013, Virginia became the first state to mandate student threat assessment in its public schools. The current study's sample consisted of 1,865 threat assessment cases reported by 785 elementary, middle, and high schools. Students ranged from pre-K to Grade 12, including 74.4 percent male, 34.6 percent receiving special education services, 51.2 percent White, 30.2 percent Black, 6.8 percent Hispanic, and 2.7 percent Asian. Survey data were collected from school-based teams to measure student demographics, threat characteristics, and assessment results. Logistic regression indicated that threat assessment teams were more likely to identify a threat as serious if it was made by a student above the elementary grades (odds ratio 0.57; 95 percent lower and upper bound 0.42-0.78), a student receiving special education services (1.27; 1.00-1.60), involved battery (1.61; 1.20-2.15), homicide (1.40; 1.07-1.82), or weapon possession (4.41; 2.80-6.96), or targeted an administrator (3.55; 1.73-7.30). Student race and gender were not significantly associated with a serious threat determination. The odds ratio that a student would attempt to carry out a threat classified as serious was 12.48 (5.15-30.22). These results provide new information on the nature and prevalence of threats in schools using threat assessment that can guide further work to develop this emerging school safety practice. (publisher abstract modified)
      
  
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