TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Perceptions of school violence as a problem and reports of violent events: a national survey of school social workers
JO  - Social work
A1  - Astor, Ron Avi
A1  - Behre, W. J.
A1  - Fravil, K. A.
A1  - Wallace, John M.
SP  - 55
EP  - 68
VL  - 42
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0037-8046
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -