Kellermann has spent his career learning how to prevent tragic injuries such as those in Littleton and Conyers. In addition to his public health work, he is chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory School of Medicine. He also is a well-known national spokesman and advocate for violence and injury prevention. He also emphasizes that programs to prevent juvenile violence won't work without a sustained commitment to evaluation research. We can't think of school violence as a separate entity.
Schools are a reflection of the community.
Although the report was completed in 1996, Todd says the findings are particularly pertinent today as the national spotlight focuses on school violence. The investigators found little evidence that conflict resolution and self-esteem seminars provide any lasting results. Despite the enormous appeal of technology as a tangible way to detect weapons, strategies such as surveillance cameras and metal detectors also had little impact on school violence. Private schools have been lucky so far. Students recounted experiences with bullies, how weapons could be silently lifted from their parents' gun cabinets, and their tricks for outsmarting surveillance cameras.