Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
  
• Issues in School Violence Research (Edwin R. Gerler, Jr.)
  
• ARTICLES
  
• Methodological and Measurement Issues in School Violence Research: Moving Beyond the Social Problem Era (Michael J. Furlong, Gale M. Morrison, Dewey G. Cornell, and Russell Skiba)
  
• Warning Signs of Problems in Schools: Ecological Perspectives and Effective Practices for Combating School Aggression and Violence (David Osher, Richard VanAcker, Gale M. Morrison, Robert Gable, Kevin Dwyer, and Mary Quinn)
  
• Using Office Referral Records in School Violence Research: Possibilities and Limitations (Gale M. Morrison, Reece Peterson, Stacy O’Farrell, and Megan Redding)
  
• Identification of Bullies and Victims: A Comparison of Methods (Dewey G. Cornell and Karen Brockenbrough)
  
• Data Quality in Student Risk Behavior Surveys and Administrator Training (Jennifer E. Cross and Rebecca Newman-Gonchar)
  
• An Examination of the Reliability, Data Screening Procedures, and Extreme Response Patterns for the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (Michael J. Furlong, Jill D. Sharkey, Michael P. Bates, and Douglas C. Smith)
  
• Structural Equation Modeling of School Violence Data: Methodological Considerations (Matthew J. Mayer)
  
• Beyond Guns, Drugs and Gangs: The Structure of Student Perceptions of School Safety (Russell Skiba, Ada B. Simmons, Reece Peterson, Janet McKelvey, Susan Ford, and Sarah Gallini)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

About the Author

Michael J. Furlong is Program Chair of the Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology Program and Professor in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also Director of the Center for School-Based Youth Development and Associate Editor of Psychology in the Schools and the California School Psychologist. A past president of the California Association of School Psychologists, his research interests focus on school violence and safety and social and emotional assessment.,
Gale M. Morrison is Professor in the Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology Program in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests have included social/emotional adjustment of students at risk for learning and behavior problems, parent/professional relationships, and the role of support services to the education mission in the schools. Her focus is on the role of resilience models in explaining the behavioral trajectories of children in schools.,
Russell Skiba is Professor in the School Psychology Program at Indiana University. He received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota. He most recently directed the Safe and Responsive Schools Project, funded by a U.S. Department of Education Projects of National Significance grant. He worked with eleven schools in two states to develop comprehensive and preventive approaches to ensuring school safety. He has presented on school violence prevention for associations and school districts throughout the country and recently received the Operation PUSH/Rainbow Coalition Push for Excellence award for his research in minority disproportionality in school suspension.,
Dewey G. Cornell is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Education in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. Dr. Cornell is Director of the UVA Youth Violence Project and is a faculty associate of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. He

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