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Part I: Case Studies of Lethal School Violence
Part I: Case Studies of Lethal School Violence
Pages 17-24
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As a scientific matter, there were too few data points to allow us to decide which of many possible explanations were true and which of many plausibly effective responses would actually work. The aim instead was to use the limited experience available to develop some plausible hypotheses about causes and effective interventions and to check commonly held assumptions for their plausibility.
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As stated in Chapter 1, Congress asked the committee to examine "incidents of lethal school violence in urban, suburban, and rural schools," yet all of the cases identified by Congress occurred in suburban and rural schools. It seemed important that the committee address both the spirit and the letter of the congressional request.
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A third possibility was that there was, in fact, little relationship between the urban violence and these new cases. The decision to take up the scientific issue of whether this was a new and unique form of lethal school violence had important implications for case selection.
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We had hoped to be able to examine data from the Secret Service and Department of Education case studies of other rural and suburban sites for our analysis, but confidentiality agreements between the researchers and their subjects precluded this possibility. In the end, we chose the following six cases for close examination: · Heritage High School, Rockdale County, Georgia · Parker Middle School, Edinboro, Pennsylvania · Heath High School, Paducah, Kentucky · Westside Middle School, Tonesboro, Arkansas · Tilden High School, Chicago, Illinois · Thomas Jefferson High School, East New York, New York THE CASE TEMPLATE Once the cases were chosen, the next decision was what information to gather for each case.
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· Immediate conditions in We school affecting motivation for incident · Immediate conditions in the school affecting response to incident · Immediate conditions in the community affecting motivation for incident - Immediate conditions in the community affecting response to incident 2. Individual factors: Individual traits and family background of offenders: · Prior criminal activity of the offender · School record (both achievement and disciplinary)
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initiated with schools: New hardware at schools (magnetometers, fences) Heightened surveillance and control of students Police officers in schools Use of transfers of students to other schools Increased efforts to deal with festering disputes and grievances Policy changes (and apparent consequences)
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Surveys PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS 23 All of the case authors submitted their study designs, including multiple consent forms, to their university's or organization's institutional review board (IRB) for the protection of human subjects, and in one case directly to the National Research Council's (NRC)
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Despite the enormous advances of scientific knowledge, this probably remains the principal way that most people facing real problems continue to try to learn. We present these cases with the hope that they will support learning in the nation's communities when they are used in formal and informal discussions about the problems of lethal violence in schools and school rampages, as well as when they are used as part of a more elaborate and formalized method of scientific inquiry into these matters.
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