School Violence and Primary Prevention

This important new work covers clinical issues in treating victims of school violence and assessing children with the potential for violence. The editor also examines the effectiveness of prevention intervention programs and offers larger policy recommendations. Despite the public alarm following several high-profile school shootings that have occurred in the United States over the past decade, little is known about the actual incidence and characteristics of school-associated violence. This text grew out of a recent special issue of the Journal of Primary Prevention, which Thomas W. Miller guest edited. Understanding violence and reducing injury and death associated with violence is now, unfortunately, a major public health concern – one that this book addresses head-on. The contributions here look at environmental factors such as cultural issues on behaviors from bullying to mass school shootings. And, uniquely, the book delves into topics such as sexual boundaries and body image. In all, this book aims for a theoretical and applied picture of the current state of school violence and prevention.