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Law Enforcement's Impact on School Violence

Law Enforcement's Impact on School Violence

Tanya M. Grant, Jessica Fidler
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781522562467|ISBN10: 152256246X|EISBN13: 9781522562474
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6246-7.ch018
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Grant, Tanya M., and Jessica Fidler. "Law Enforcement's Impact on School Violence." Handbook of Research on School Violence in American K-12 Education, edited by Gordon A. Crews, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 371-388. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6246-7.ch018

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Grant, T. M. & Fidler, J. (2019). Law Enforcement's Impact on School Violence. In G. Crews (Ed.), Handbook of Research on School Violence in American K-12 Education (pp. 371-388). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6246-7.ch018

Chicago

Grant, Tanya M., and Jessica Fidler. "Law Enforcement's Impact on School Violence." In Handbook of Research on School Violence in American K-12 Education, edited by Gordon A. Crews, 371-388. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6246-7.ch018

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Abstract

Since the 1980s, school violence has been prominent in society and is gradually increasing in occurrence. In 1999, the Columbine High School shooting shocked the country demonstrating how deadly school violence can be, with a death count of 13 total people, including 12 students and 1 teacher. The next prominent occurrence was in 2005 on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, where 10 people were killed at the hands of a 16-year-old student. Another more recent act of school violence was in 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, at Sandy Hook Elementary School. There, the shooter killed 28 people including children and teachers inside the school and his mother. And the latest horrific incidence of this kind took place at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February of 2018. The shooter took the lives of 14 students and 3 school employees. As a response to these shootings, law enforcement has collaborated with schools to implement the use of school resource officers, emergency evaluation/reaction drills, and new policies regarding school violence.

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