Students’ Feelings of Safety, Exposure to Violence and Victimization, and Authoritative School Climate

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dc.contributor.authorFisher, Benjamin W.
dc.contributor.authorViano, Samantha
dc.contributor.authorCurran, F. Chris
dc.contributor.authorPearman, F. Alvin
dc.contributor.authorGardella, Joseph H.
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-08T00:41:04Z
dc.date.available2018-11-08T00:41:04Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-09
dc.description.abstractAlthough many students feel unsafe at school, few malleable factors have been identified to increase students’ feelings of safety. Drawing on criminological behavior control theories, this study posits authoritative school climate as one such factor. With data from two nationally representative datasets, this study uses path analysis to examine the relationship between authoritative school climate and feelings of safety, as well as the extent to which this relation is explained by exposure to violence and victimization. Across both datasets, a more authoritative school climate was associated with increased feelings of safety at school. Both models also indicated that this relationship was explained in part by reduced exposure to violence and victimization, although the strength of this indirect effect varied across models. These findings suggest that strengthening students’ relationships with adults and increasing the fairness and consistency of rules in the school may both reduce exposure to violence and victimization and help students feel safer at school.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12103-017-9406-6en_US
dc.format.extent20 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal artile post-printen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2QJ7826F
dc.identifier.citationBenjamin W. Fisher, Samantha Viano, F. Chris Curran, F. Alvin Pearman, Joseph H. Gardella, Students’ Feelings of Safety, Exposure to Violence and Victimization, and Authoritative School Climate, American Journal of Criminal Justice March 2018, Volume 43, Issue 1, pp 6–25 , DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-017-9406-6en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-017-9406-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/11910
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSpringer USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC School of Public Policy Collection
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.rightsThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in American Journal of Criminal Justice. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-017-9406-6
dc.subjectAuthoritative school climateen_US
dc.subjectSchool climateen_US
dc.subjectFeelings of safetyen_US
dc.subjectFear at schoolen_US
dc.subjectVictimizationen_US
dc.subjectViolenceen_US
dc.titleStudents’ Feelings of Safety, Exposure to Violence and Victimization, and Authoritative School Climateen_US
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