..., enacted through boundary-setting, collaboration and strategic compliance becomes a guiding principle of her leadership. Originality/value Previous research on armed conflict and school leadership tends to treat violence either as discrete events or as a uniform background. This article extends...

... and mitigation in university settings. In many of the cases involving school violence the perpetrator's actions have been witnessed or identified by others but often these individuals are afraid to report the activities or feel unsure of how or to whom they should report them (Lamberg, 1998). Fear...

...Égide Royer As a researcher and educator, the author analyses the existing gap between the available knowledge on aggressive behaviours and violence in schools and the limited integration of effective practices in teacher training programs. With the understanding that the stress experienced by some...

...Jorge Werthein Violence is still an alarming issue in Brazil, a country profoundly affected by social inequality. Since 1997, studies from UNESCO in Brazil have highlighted this worrying situation for youngsters from 15 to 24 years old, who are the portion of the population most exposed to violence...

...Laurier Fortin Students’ antisocial behavior can often lead to violence in school. Longitudinal studies pertaining to antisocial behavior have contributed considerably to the development of knowledge in this field of research. This knowledge now enables us to identify the different developmental...

... to carry out a comparative survey on the social climate in schools in England and France, focusing on the teachers’ perceptions of their working conditions in socially deprived urban secondary schools and more particularly on the issue of school violence since the two aspects interact. The research sets...

...Eric Debarbieux In recent years, violence in schools has become a major preoccupation all over the world. This has led to a considerable increase in the number of public policies and programmes aimed at tackling the problem, as well as to a very large number of empirical studies. In this article...

...Dewey G. Cornell A series of highly publicized school shootings in the USA generated the misperception of an epidemic of school violence. Fears of school violence stimulated an ill‐advised expansion of zero tolerance school discipline policies and the widespread dissemination of profiles or warning...

... involves the participation of an even wider cross‐section of the school community, including parents, guardians, social workers, and others who have been affected. This intervention is typically used for serious incidents within the school, such as acts of serious violence. At each level, the processes...

... strongly in reasons given by schools for excluding pupils. The word “violence” is still applied sparingly as a descriptor for pupil behaviour. An overview of the evidence about the scale and nature of school exclusion is provided, drawing on the author's empirical research in the field. The paper also...

...Kevin Gorman; Patrick Pauken “Zero tolerance” has become the international “buzz word” of the secondary building administrator. As school violence has increased so have the legislative and regulatory policy‐making mandates calling for increased disciplinary consequences for inappropriate student...

... Center for the Prevention of School Violence, 1997a), and character education (Kadel et al., 1999; US Department of Education, 1999). In this study, we focus on one particular school safety program that is gaining in popularity in the USA: the School Resource Officer program. A School...

...David M. Day; Carol A. Golench The past decade has seen an increasing concern for the problem of school violence. As a result, school administrators have focused their attention on the development of effective policies and programmes to promote safer schools. While addressing the same mandate...