A developmental perspective on the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (129) ◽  
pp. 43-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewey G. Cornell



2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian G. Kaplan ◽  
Dewey G. Cornell

We compared threats of violence made by K–12 students in special education (120 cases) or general education (136 cases) in schools that were implementing threat assessment guidelines for managing student threats of violence (Cornell, Sheras, Kaplan, McConville, Posey, Levy-Elkon, et al., 2004; Cornell & Sheras, in press). Students in special education made disproportionately more threats, as well as more severe threats, than peers in general education. Students classified as emotionally disturbed (ED) exhibited the highest threat rates. Nevertheless, use of school suspension as a disciplinary consequence for threats was consistent for students in special and general education, and few students were expelled. Our findings support the use of threat assessment to manage threats of violence by students in special education.



2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Strong ◽  
Dewey Cornell

Threat assessment has been widely recommended as a violence prevention approach for schools, but there are few reports of its implementation. Memphis City Schools adapted the Virginia threat assessment guidelines (Cornell & Sheras, 2006) for use by a centralized team serving 194 schools and a student population of 118,000. This article describes 209 student threats referred for assessment during a single school year and the resulting educational placements and disciplinary consequences. There were no reports of students carrying out any of the violent threats. These results support further examination of student threat assessment as a promising approach to dealing with student threats.





2011 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewey G. Cornell ◽  
Anne Gregory ◽  
Xitao Fan




1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 900-901
Author(s):  
Gerald R. Adams


1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 828-828
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated


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