RT Article
T1 Students’ Feelings of Safety, Exposure to Violence and Victimization, and Authoritative School Climate
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 43
IS 1
SP 6
OP 25
A1 Fisher, Benjamin W.
A2 Viano, Samantha
A2 Chris Curran, F.
A2 Alvin Pearman, F.
A2 Gardella, Joseph H.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764207459
AB Although 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.
K1 Violence
K1 Victimization
K1 Fear at school
K1 Feelings of safety
K1 School climate
K1 Authoritative school climate
DO 10.1007/s12103-017-9406-6