Keywords
school safety, school violence, preventative measures, threat assessment, school threat assessment teams
Abstract
The purpose of this quantitative empirical study is to determine whether a non-hardened security measure such as threat assessment teams has a relationship to school crime and violence. This study incorporated descriptive and inferential statistics from a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of 2,762 participating schools administered by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Statistically significant relationships existed between school type and two of the 10 criminal offense variables: number of robberies with a weapon and number of incidents of theft/larceny. For nine of 10 variables, schools that had threat assessment teams, and met more frequently, had higher school crime and violence means compared to schools that did not have threat assessment teams. Because schools that did have a threat assessment team had higher school crime and violence incidents than those that did not, results suggest schools should be more proactive, rather than reactive, in implementing threat assessment teams.
Recommended Citation
Conwell, Shane E. and Elam, Nicholas P.
(2024)
"Deterring School Crime and Violence Through Non-Hardened Approaches: An Examination of School Threat Assessment Teams,"
Mid-Western Educational Researcher: Vol. 36:
Iss.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/mwer/vol36/iss1/10
