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ERIC Number: EJ730078
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Aug
Pages: 13
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0140-1971
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Weapon-Carrying at Swiss Schools? A Gender-Specific Typology in Context of Victim and Offender Related Violence
Kuntsche, Emmanuel N.; Klingemann, Harald K.-H.
Journal of Adolescence, v27 n4 p381-393 Aug 2004
After reviewing prevalence rates, this work tries to identify gender specific groups in which weapon-carrying occurs in the context of victim and offender related violent behaviours. [kappa]-Means cluster and logistic regression analyses were calculated, based on a cross-sectional survey of a national representative sample of 1549 15-year-olds as part of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) international collaborative study. The victims and offenders of violence concern mainly female bullies and physically violent boys. In the male victim-offender group, 17% had already taken a weapon to school. Another male group emerged in which 95% had already taken a weapon to school. Members of this group revealed an elevated level of acting violently but a low level of being the victim. Among the minority girls who were offenders and victims of physical violence, everyone has already taken a weapon to school. Based on these results, homogeneous risk groups can be targeted for violence prevention.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Switzerland
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