School Violence around the World: A Social Phenomenon

Dumitriu, Camélia

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.676

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“…At the societal level, these individual actions contribute to the reinforcement of masculinity as social value (Giddens, 1984). It is no a coincidence that all but eight of the 163 school shooters were males and all of them used fire weapons to attack their school's community at school premises (Dumitriu, 2013). Sociological theory convincingly argues that actions carried out by individuals are instrumental for the society's reproduction and invigoration of social values over time (Berger & Luckmann, 2011;Bourdieu, 1984;Giddens, 1984;Parsons, 1991;Weber, 1964) regardless of whether the result of actions is benevolent or lethal.…”

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“…School shootings have been predominantly analyzed by employing psychological approaches, considering school shootings as result of the perpetrators' mental health state (Dumitriu, 2013;Flannery et al, 2012;Langman, 2009Langman, , 2013. Data available on school shooters are virtually scarce, making it difficult to construct an appropriate mental diagnosis.…”

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“…Despite the fact that male students have perpetrated the majority of school shootings (Dumitriu, 2013), none of the examined papers on this issue has collected data on female students who have perpetrated violent actions at school. Due to the lack of research on the involvement of females in school shootings, this essay cannot demonstrate to what extent masculinity has a critical effect on females' decisions to attack a school's community or what other social values are intrinsically connected with school shootings.…”

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“…Likewise, it is unlikely that such events take places at school. After the first documented school shooting in Germany in 1913, which resulted in five girls killed (Schlott, 2013), some studies have found that between 120 and 160 total school shootings have happened around the world from the 1920s to 2013 (Böckler, Seeger, Sitzer, & Heitmeyer, 2013;Dumitriu, 2013). This means that no more than two fatal incidents per year have passed in this span of time.…”

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“…However, 21 cases in total were strictly school shootings. To consider an event as a school shooting, at least a fatal victim has been resulted in after perpetrating the attack Dumitriu, 2013). If fatalities were not taken into account from 2000 to 2010, the total number of school shootings would be about 445: these amount to saying 3 events per month (De Venanzi, 2012).…”

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‘The age of school shootings’: A sociological interpretation on masculinity / ‘La era de las masacres en las escuelas’: Una interpretación sociológica sobre la masculinidad

Celis¹

2015

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Section: Significance Of the Papermentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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‘The age of school shootings’: A sociological interpretation on masculinity / ‘La era de las masacres en las escuelas’: Una interpretación sociológica sobre la masculinidad

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Lifelong Negative Influence of School Violence on Children

Ferrara

Franceschini

Namazova-Baranova³

et al. 2019

The Journal of Pediatrics

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Leakage warning behaviors for mass school violence: An analysis of tips reported to a state school safety tip line.

Hendrix¹,

Planty²,

Cutbush³

2022

Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

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Tip lines are a promising strategy for promoting school safety by creating a structured system where students, staff, parents, and community members can anonymously report safety concerns. To date, little is known about the characteristics of tips, how tips are reported, and what implications for practice can be developed from studying tip line data. We analyzed 228 tips collected over the course of 43 months by the SafeOregon tip line in which one or more persons were reported for signaling intentions or desires to commit an act of mass violence at a school (i.e., "leakage"). Tips were coded and analyzed to generate critical knowledge about the leakage, the person(s) being reported, how the tip was reported, and how the school responded. Given the urgency of timely reporting, we also investigated the odds of same day reporting by several tip and school characteristics. Results show that most tips described direct threats to shoot up the school by a known male student, usually made at school. Notable patterns can be observed by disaggregating tips according to time of day, day of the week, and month, although more research is needed to understand temporal fluctuations. When a specific date for violence was mentioned in the leakage, the reporter was significantly more likely to engage in same day reporting and the police were more likely to be called. Results highlight the importance of training students on how to use tip lines effectively, including describing leakage events clearly and with as much detail as possible. Public Significance StatementTaken together, these findings are insightful for understanding the use of tip lines for reporting serious safety concerns, information that school administrators and tip line operators can utilize to allocate resources and ultimately to better protect schools from threats of violence.

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School Violence around the World: A Social Phenomenon

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

‘The age of school shootings’: A sociological interpretation on masculinity / ‘La era de las masacres en las escuelas’: Una interpretación sociológica sobre la masculinidad

‘The age of school shootings’: A sociological interpretation on masculinity / ‘La era de las masacres en las escuelas’: Una interpretación sociológica sobre la masculinidad

Lifelong Negative Influence of School Violence on Children

Leakage warning behaviors for mass school violence: An analysis of tips reported to a state school safety tip line.

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