Hat tip to Crime and Consequences for alerting us to an upcoming conference at Columbia Law School:
…a one day conference on Violence on Campus: Prediction, Prevention and Response to be held on Friday, April 4, 2008 at the Law School. The conference, which will feature academic experts from law and the social sciences, policy makers [...]
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Public School Practices for Violence Prevention and Reduction: 2003–04 (National Center for Education Statistics): “This Issue Brief (1) examines principals’ reports of the prevalence of formal practices in public schools designed to prevent or reduce school violence and (2) describes the distribution of these practices by selected school characteristics.”
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Quick links from around the web and blogosphere:
Reports from a review of the Virginia Tech massacre have been published (download via Docuticker) prompting much commentary, including this detailed post over at World of Psychology, where John Grohol discusses the report (pdf) detailing mass murderer Seung Hui Cho’s mental health history.
Providentia draws our attention to a [...]
Some snippets from around the web that caught my eye this month:
Providentia’s Dr Romeo Vitelli (14 June) highlights a new article in the journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine on Dating Violence, Sexual Assault Linked to Suicide Attempts in Teenagers.
Also recommended, Dr Vitelli’s post on the Tarasoff Decision, the ruling that when a client [...]
This month’s APA Monitor on Psychology magazine (Vol 38, No. 6, June 2007) includes several stories of interest in a forensic context.
The cover story is a triple-bill of short articles on psychology in the courtroom:
Order in the court: The best way to educate juries on the pitfalls of eyewitness evidence? Teach judges, say psychologists.
To ask [...]
Via Docuticker, a readable and thought-provoking piece on mass murder from the American Sociological Association:
We asked several experts to discuss various forms of mass murder, their causes, and possible means of prevention. The panelists were Katherine S. Newman, coauthor of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings; Michael Mann, author of The Dark Side [...]
I’ve not linked to or posted about the vast numbers of psychologists commenting on last week’s tragic Virginia Tech shootings. If you are that interested, you’ll have found it all for yourself, and even if you aren’t, it’s been hard to miss. (Speaking personally, I find it somewhat distasteful that so many psychologists [...]
Terrible, terrible events at Virginia Tech. Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this awful incident.
Already psychologists are appearing in the media trying to make sense of why someone would do such a thing. Previous PCN posts on research on school shootings are here, and some links to a few resources for any [...]
I’ve noticed quite a few visitors here searching for information on school shootings, in the wake of the dreadful events in Pennsylvania this week. There are so many psychologists offering their opinions on the shootings (some rather better qualified than others I might add) that I’m not even going to try to summarise the [...]
A few items that caught my eye in the last week:
KIDNAPPING: BBC News (25 August) asks: What do psychologists make of the extraordinary case of Natascha Kampusch, abducted at 10, deprived of her childhood, and now back in the real world after eight years?
[...] “Her life has been suspended, and it will take a lot [...]
