Correlates of physical violence at school: A multilevel analysis of Australian high school students

Grunseit, Anne; Weatherburn, Don; Donnelly, Neil

doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.2008.tb00117.x

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“…An early, influential example of this type of research found that across 12 neighborhoods, community-level measures of the extent of social disorganization and criminal subcultures had direct, positive effects on individual-level delinquency and also had indirect effects through the significant negative effect of traditional bonding measures on delinquency (Simcha-Fagan & Schwartz, 1986). More recent studies, many of which employed multilevel modeling techniques, have been able to account for the influence of school characteristics (Grunseit et al, 2008;Hoffman & Ireland, 2004;Khoury-Kassabri et al, 2009;Wilcox et al, 2006), community characteristics (Bernburg & Thorlindsson, 2007;McNulty & Bellair, 2003), or both (Benbenishty & Astor, 2005;Gottfredson et al, 2005;Kirk, 2009;Watkins, 2008;Welsh et al, 1999Welsh et al, , 2000 on individual delinquent or "at-risk" behavior.…”

Section: Crime In the School Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racial Tensions and School Crime

Maume

Kim‐Godwin

Clements

2010

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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This article uses data on school crime and other characteristics from a study of U.S. public schools to contribute to our knowledge about the extent and correlates of school violence and property crime. Following a brief review of the literature, the authors describe their efforts to examine the link between racial tensions and school crime. Relying on the macro version of general strain theory (GST) developed by Agnew and racial contact/threat perspectives on school race relations, a more specific purpose for their article is to determine the extent to which school-based crime is at least a partial function of extant racial tensions in schools. Analyses of violent and property-related incidents across a weighted sample of 1,936 middle and high schools indicate that racial tensions is a significant, positive correlate of both types of school crime, net of other school climate, organizational, and demographic characteristics. They discuss these findings and describe directions for future research with these data.

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Section: Crime In the School Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racial Tensions and School Crime

Maume

Kim‐Godwin

Clements

2010

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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“…Efforts to assess the relative impact of any specific influence on violence must situate such effects in context and in relation to other overlapping factors. Youth violence is predicted by individual (i.e., impulsivity), family (i.e., harsh parenting), and community (i.e., high crime neighborhoods) risk factors (Grunseit et al, 2008). Current evidence on the nature of violent behavior among young adults is lacking as much of the existing literature has examined intimate partner violence (IPV) and dating violence specifically (Farrington et al, 2017).…”

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Unpacking Violent Behavior in Young Adulthood: The Relative Importance of Hazardous Alcohol Use

Lawler

Stapinski

Teesson

et al. 2021

J Interpers Violence

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Young adulthood is an important developmental period for investigating the nature of violent behavior. This study examines the unique contribution of alcohol use to violence perpetration among young adults in the Australian community, after accounting for the influence of sociodemographic, early life, trait, and well-being influences. Cross-sectional, self-report data was collected from 507 young adults aged 18-20 years in the Australian general community via an online survey. Sequential logistic regressions examined the relative and independent contribution of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), impulsivity, psychological distress, and hazardous alcohol use to past-year violent behavior. Results show one in eight young adults aged 18-20 (13%) reported at least one act of violent behavior in the past year, primarily assault perpetrated against another person. Sequential logistic regression identified that after controlling for other risk factors, the number of ACEs reported and hazardous alcohol use were independently and positively associated with increased odds of reporting violent behavior in young adulthood. These findings demonstrate that ACEs and hazardous alcohol use are important, independent correlates of violent behavior in young adults. While preventing early adversity is key for reducing violence in the community, this evidence suggests that it is also important to target proximal causes such as hazardous alcohol use. Increasing early and widespread access to evidence-based, trauma-informed violence-prevention programs targeting risk factors across multiple settings is critical for reducing harm and supporting young people into healthy adulthood.

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Re‐thinking Indigenous over‐representation in prison

Weatherburn¹,

Holmes²

2010

Aust J Social Issues

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It is now nearly two decades since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody recommended that a determined effort be made by all Australian Governments to reduce the level of Indigenous over‐representation in prison. The disparity between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous imprisonment rates, however, is now wider than it has ever been. This article reviews research published over the last twenty years which calls into question both the Royal Commission's analysis of the causes of Indigenous over‐representation in prison and subsequent policies adopted to reduce it. It concludes by arguing that future efforts to reduce Indigenous over‐representation in prison should be directed at dealing with the underlying causes of Indigenous involvement in crime, especially drug and alcohol use, child neglect and abuse, poor school performance and unemployment.

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Correlates of physical violence at school: A multilevel analysis of Australian high school students

Cited by 8 publications

References 46 publications

Racial Tensions and School Crime

Racial Tensions and School Crime

Unpacking Violent Behavior in Young Adulthood: The Relative Importance of Hazardous Alcohol Use

Re‐thinking Indigenous over‐representation in prison

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