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Violence in schools: Our failure to protect children
Author(s) -
Walters Anne
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30302
Subject(s) - hook , shot (pellet) , school violence , gun violence , criminology , one shot , psychology , computer security , forensic engineering , demography , medical emergency , political science , injury prevention , medicine , poison control , engineering , sociology , social psychology , computer science , chemistry , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , dentistry
“Since 2014 there have been an average of 5 school shootings per month. Since Sandy Hook in 2012, there have been at least 239 school shootings nationwide. In these episodes, 438 were shot and 138 were killed, and 16 can be classified as events where 4 or more people were shot” ( New York Times , 2/15/2018, data taken from the Gun Violence Archive).