The Wiley Handbook on Violence in Education: Forms, Factors, and Preventions (Wiley Handbooks in Education)

**In this comprehensive, multidisciplinary volume, experts from a wide range fields explore violence in education’s different forms, contributing factors, and contextual nature.** With contributions from noted experts in a wide-range of scholarly and professional fields, __The Wiley Handbook on Violence in Education__ offers original research and essays that address the troubling issue of violence in education. The authors show the different forms that violence takes in educational contexts, explore the factors that contribute to violence, and provide innovative perspectives and approaches for prevention and response. This multidisciplinary volume presents a range of rigorous research that examines violence from both micro- and macro- approaches. In its twenty-nine chapters, this comprehensive volume’s fifty-nine contributors, representing thirty-three universities from the United States and six other countries, examines violence’s distinctive forms and contributing factors. This much-needed volume: * Addresses the complexities of violence in education with essays from experts in the fields of sociology, psychology, criminology, education, disabilities studies, forensic psychology, philosophy, and critical theory * Explores the many forms of school violence including physical, verbal, linguistic, social, legal, religious, political, structural, and symbolic violence * Reveals violence in education’s stratified nature in order to achieve a deeper understanding of the problem * Demonstrates how violence in education is deeply situated in schools, communities, and the broader society and culture * Offers new perspectives and proposals for prevention and response __The Wiley Handbook on Violence in Education__ is designed to help researchers, educators, policy makers, and community leaders understand violence in educational settings and offers innovative, effective approaches to this difficult challenge. Content: Intro Title Page Copyright Page Contents Notes on the Editors Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Context, Form, Prevention, and Response: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Violence in Education Section 1 School Shootings Section 1 Introduction: Broadening the Context, Refocusing the Response Chapter 1 The Menace of School Shootings in America: Panic and Overresponse The Changing Landscape Perception and Reality of School Violence Fear and Overresponse Target Hardening Zero Tolerance School Resource Officers Preparing for the Worst Armed Protection Bullying School Size and ClimateDiscussion References Chapter 2 Threat Assessment Programs and Evaluations: Threat Assessment Prevalence of Threats and Violence in Schools Consequences of School Violence Fear Violence Prevention versus Prediction Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines Research on the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines References Chapter 3 School Shootings, Societal Violence and Gun Culture Crises in Masculinities Guns in America, School Shootings, and Media Spectacle Beyond the Culture of Male Violence and Rage Gun Safety and the Hopes for a More Secure FutureReferences Chapter 4 Learning to Be a Rampage Shooter: The Case of Elliot Rodger Alienated American Men Learn to Kill Rodger's Day of Retribution Precursors to the Rampage Learning the Basic Social Categories Sex and Sexism From Misogynist to Misanthrope Discussion and Conclusion References Chapter 5 The Logic of the Exception: Violence Revisited "Form-of-Life," Bare Life, and Sovereign Power State of Exception From Gun Culture to the Gun Lobby to the Shooter's Exceptionality Divine Violence Conclusion: Education and the "Real State of Exception"References Chapter 6 Student Profiling and Negative Implications for Students with Disabilities Popular Media and the Urge to Profile History of Profiling and Violent Acts in Schools Student Profiling in Educational Institutions Effects of Profiling Rhetoric on Mental Health Stigmatization How Profiling in Schools Furthers Stigmatization of Mental Health Solutions to Help Prevent Violence Without Profiling Students Discourse Surrounding School Violence and Mental Health: Next Steps to Prevent Further Stigma References Chapter 7 Aftermath of School Shootings: A Model for Relational Aesthetic Response, Reconstruction, and Associated LivingIntroduction Purpose Significance Research Questions Background and Summary Literature Review Theoretical Framework Model for Aesthetic Response Methods of Inquiry Results Conclusion References Section 2 Group and Gang Violence in Education Section 2 Introduction: Group and Gang Violence in Education Chapter 8 The Distinguishing Features, Trends, and Challenges of Group and Gang Violence in Education Introduction Particular Challenges Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Context, Form, Prevention, and Response: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Violence in Education -- Section 1 School Shootings -- Section 1"Introduction: Broadening the Context, Refocusing the Response -- Chapter 1 The Menace of School Shootings in America: Panic and Overresponse -- The Changing Landscape -- Perception and Reality of School Violence -- Fear and Overresponse -- Target Hardening -- Zero Tolerance -- School Resource Officers -- Preparing for the Worst -- Armed Protection -- Bullying -- School Size and Climate -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 2 Threat Assessment -- Programs and Evaluations: Threat Assessment -- Prevalence of Threats and Violence in Schools -- Consequences of School Violence Fear -- Violence Prevention versus Prediction -- Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines -- Research on the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines -- References -- Chapter 3 School Shootings, Societal Violence and Gun Culture -- Crises in Masculinities -- Guns in America, School Shootings, and Media Spectacle -- Beyond the Culture of Male Violence and Rage -- Gun Safety and the Hopes for a More Secure Future -- References -- Chapter 4 Learning to Be a Rampage Shooter: The Case of Elliot Rodger -- Alienated American Men Learn to Kill -- Rodger's Day of Retribution -- Precursors to the Rampage -- Learning the Basic Social Categories -- Sex and Sexism -- From Misogynist to Misanthrope -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 The Logic of the Exception: Violence Revisited -- "Form-of-Life," Bare Life, and Sovereign Power -- State of Exception -- From Gun Culture to the Gun Lobby to the Shooter's Exceptionality -- Divine Violence -- Conclusion: Education and the "Real State of Exception