Citation

Payne AA, Gottfredson DC. Aggressive Behav. 2019; 45(4): 397-407.

Affiliation

Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, International Society for Research on Aggression, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/ab.21826

PMID

30801753

Abstract

Despite data showing that teacher victimization is at least as great a problem as student victimization, far less research exists regarding teacher victimization than student victimization and overall school crime, particularly with regard to the application of criminological theory to explain the victimization of teachers. We address this gap by examining the hierarchical relationship between communal school organization and teacher victimization in a nationally representative sample of 37,497 teachers from 7,488 public schools in the United States.

RESULTS showed that teacher experienced less victimization in schools that were more communally organized. We discuss these findings and present implications for school-based delinquency prevention.

© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Language: en

Keywords

communal school organization; school climate; school crime; school violence; teacher victimization