Perceptions of School Violence as a Problem and Reports of Violent Events

A National Survey of School Social Workers

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10550258
AutoresRon Avi Astor (0000-0003-0625-7061, University of Michigan, autor de correspondencia), W J Behre (University of Michigan), K A Fravil (University of Michigan), J M Wallace (0000-0003-1120-3770, University of Michigan)
Año1997
Volumen42
Número1
Páginas55-68
Fecha de publicación1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-8046 • E-ISSN: 1545-6846
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/sw/42.1.55
PMID9009888
OpenAlexW2142471632
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20

Awareness of violence as a problem is important in developing school-based interventions to reduce violence. How would social workers who reported a potentially lethal event in their schools within the past year rate the seriousness of the problem in their schools? What variables would be associated with the perception of a serious violence problem in a school? These questions were explored in a national survey of school social workers. The results suggest that school social workers did not perceive violence as a serious problem on the basis of a single event even when the event was life threatening. From a zero-tolerance perspective, school violence as a problem was underestimated in all community settings but more often in suburban and rural settings than in inner-city or urban settings. The social workers' perception of a serious problem was contingent on the presence of multiple types of violence and the community setting of the school

Criminology · Dating violence · Domestic violence · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · School violence · Suicide prevention · Education Discipline and Inequality · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work