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What Can Be Done About School Shootings?: A Review of the Evidence

Borum, Randy, Cornell, Dewey G., Modzeleski, William, Jimerson, Shane R.·2010·Educational Researcher
DOI 10.3102/0013189x09357620
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School shootings have generated great public concern and fostered a widespread impression that schools are unsafe for many students; this article counters those misapprehensions by examining empirical evidence of school and community violence trends and reviewing evidence on best practices for preventing school shootings. Many of the school safety and security measures deployed in response to school shootings have little research support, and strategies such as zero-tolerance discipline and student profiling have been widely criticized as unsound practices. Threat assessment is identified as a promising strategy for violence prevention that merits further study. The article concludes with an overview of the need for schools to develop crisis response plans to prepare for and mitigate such rare events.

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Authors
Borum, R., Cornell, D. G., Modzeleski, W., & Jimerson, S. R.
Venue
Educational Researcher
Publisher
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Published
2010-01
Volume
39
Issue
1
Pages
27-37
ISSN
  • 0013-189X
  • 1935-102X
DOI
10.3102/0013189x09357620
Cited by
229
References
2
Language
en
Licence
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