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Communal schools and teacher victimization
Author(s) -
Payne Allison A.,
Gottfredson Denise C.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
aggressive behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.223
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1098-2337
pISSN - 0096-140X
DOI - 10.1002/ab.21826
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , psychology , human factors and ergonomics , multilevel model , suicide prevention , poison control , injury prevention , criminology , developmental psychology , social psychology , medicine , environmental health , mathematics , statistics
Despite data showing that teacher victimization is at least as great a problem as student victimization, far less research exists regarding teacher victimization than student victimization and overall school crime, particularly with regard to the application of criminological theory to explain the victimization of teachers. We address this gap by examining the hierarchical relationship between communal school organization and teacher victimization in a nationally representative sample of 37,497 teachers from 7,488 public schools in the United States. Results showed that teacher experienced less victimization in schools that were more communally organized. We discuss these findings and present implications for school‐based delinquency prevention.