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Definitional Discrepancies: Defining “School Shootings” and Other Incidents of Gunfire Affecting Schools

Comer, Benjamin P.·2024·Social Sciences
DOI 10.3390/socsci13060316
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The current review explores multiple definitions of school shootings used by myriad data collection platforms and by various scholars. Importantly, the impacts of definitional discrepancies on inclusion criteria, data divergence, research, policy, and public perception are discussed at length. The review concludes with a call to Criminologists and school gun violence scholars to better collaborate on what should be considered a “school shooting” and lists five benefits that may result from modifying school gun violence definitions and data collection methodologies.

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Authors
Comer, B. P.
Affiliations
Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76109, USA
Venue
Social Sciences
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2024-06-13
Volume
13
Issue
6
Pages
316
ISSN
2076-0760
DOI
10.3390/socsci13060316
Cited by
13
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0
Language
en
Licence
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)

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