@article{ref1,
title="Perceptions of school violence as a problem and reports of violent events: a national survey of school social workers",
journal="Social work",
year="1997",
author="Astor, Ron Avi and Behre, W. J. and Fravil, K. A. and Wallace, John M.",
volume="42",
number="1",
pages="55-68",
abstract="Awareness of violence as a problem is important in developing school-based interventions to reduce violence. How would social workers who reported a potentially lethal event in their schools within the past year rate the seriousness of the problem in their schools? What variables would be associated with the perception of a serious violence problem in a school? These questions were explored in a national survey of school social workers. The results suggest that school social workers did not perceive violence as a serious problem on the basis of a single event even when the event was life threatening. From a zero-tolerance perspective, school violence as a problem was underestimated in all community settings but more often in suburban and rural settings than in inner-city or urban settings. The social workers' perception of a serious problem was contingent on the presence of multiple types of violence and the community setting of the school.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0037-8046",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}