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A guide for those interested in the research on school violence, including bullying.

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Background information

School violence : a reference handbook / Laura L. Finley.
Second edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.32 .F563 2014
Handbook of bullying in schools : an international perspective / edited by Shane R. Jimerson, Susan M. Swearer, Dorothy L. Espelage.
New York : Routledge, 2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.3 .H343 2010
Handbook of school violence and school safety : international research and practice / edited by Shane R. Jimerson ... [et al.].
2nd ed. New York : Routledge, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LB3013.3 .H346 2012

New books

Developing safer schools and communities for our children : the interdisciplinary responsibility of our time / Betsy Gunzelmann.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2866.5 .G86 2015
School shooters : understanding high school, college, and adult perpetrators / Peter Langman, PhD.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.3 .L357 2015
From education to incarceration : dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline / edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, & David Stovall ; foreword by William Ayers.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3012.2 .F76 2014
Cyberbullying : causes, consequences, and coping strategies / Nicole L. Weber and William V. Pelfrey, Jr.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.3 .W44 2014
Cyberbullying in social media within educational institutions : featuring student, employee, and parent information / Merle Horowitz and Dorothy M. Bollinger.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.3 .H67 2014
(Un)normalizing education : addressing homophobia in higher education and K-12 schools / by Joseph R. Jones (Mercer University, Macon, Georgia).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.82 .J664 2014
Catastrophic school violence : a new approach to prevention / Jared M. Scherz and Donna Scherz.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.32 .S318 2014
Friendly schools plus teacher resource : middle childhood (ages 8-10) / Donna Cross, Shane Thompson, Erin Erceg.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.3 .C7593 2014
Practice-oriented.
Friendly schools plus teacher resource : early & middle adolescence (ages 11-14) / Donna Cross, Shane Thompson, Erin Erceg.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.3 .C756 2015
Practice-oriented.
Alleviating bullying : conquering the challenge of violent crimes / edited by Ashraf Esmail.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.3 .A45 2014
The risk of school rampage : assessing and preventing threats of school violence / Eric Madfis.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.3 .M33 2014
Managing the unthinkable : crisis preparation and response for campus leaders / edited by Gretchen M. Bataille and Diana I. Cordova ; foreword by John G. Peters, President Emeritus (Northern Illinois University).
First Edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2866 .M36 2014
School bullying : new theories in context / edited by Robin May Schott, Dorte Marie Søndergaard.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.3 .S3537 2014
Practice-oriented.
Bullying and students with disabilities : strategies and techniques to create a safe learning environment for all / Barry Edwards McNamara.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.32 .M39 2013
Practice-oriented.
Law, education, politics, fairness : England's extreme legislation for education reform / Dan Gibton.
London : Institute of Education Press, 2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA632 .G49 2013
Citizenship, education and violence : on disrupted potentialities and becoming / Yusef Waghid, Nuraan Davids.
Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1091 .W33 2013
Zero tolerance and other plays : disrupting xenophobia, racism and homophobia in school / by Tara Goldstein.
Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » PR9199.4 .G65 Z47 2013
Bullying and cyberbullying : what every educator needs to know / Elizabeth Kandel Englander.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.3 .E645 2013
La violencia escolar en México / Antonio Gómez Nashiki, Úrsula Zurita Rivera y Sergio López Molina.
Primera edición.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.34 .M4 G654 2013
Responding to school violence : confronting the Columbine effect / edited by Glenn W. Muschert, Stuart Henry, Nicole L. Bracy, and Anthony A. Peguero.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.32 .R47 2014
Toxic schools : high-poverty education in New York and Amsterdam / Bowen Paulle.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5133 .N4 P386 2013
Leadership, violence, and school climate : case studies in creating nonviolent schools / Kyle E. Blanchfield and Peter D. Ladd.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.32 .B525 2013
Surveillance schools : security, discipline and control in contemporary education / Emmeline Taylor.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2866 .T39 2013
Generation bullied 2.0 : prevention and intervention strategies for our most vulnerable students / sj Miller, Leslie David Burns, Tara Star Johnson, editors.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.32 .G46 2013
Practice-oriented.
E-safety : digital learning guides / Kevin Campbell-Wright.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.3 .C367 2013
Practice-oriented.
Sext ed : obscenity versus free speech in our schools / Joseph O. Oluwole and Preston C. Green III ; with the assistance of Melissa Stackpole ; foreword by Eunice A. Grippaldi.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » KF4159 .O45 2013
Preventing college student suicide / Deborah J. Taub, Jason Robertson, editors.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1027.5 .N4 NO.141
Practice-oriented.
Violence in student writing : a school administrator's guide / Gretchen Oltman ; [foreword by Allan Osborne].
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.32 .O48 2013
"Don't be so gay!" : queers, bullying, and making schools safe / Donn Short.
Vancouver : UBC Press, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.34 .C2 S56 2013
Practice-oriented.
Rethinking school bullying : dominance, identity and school culture / Ronald B. Jacobson.
New York : Routledge, 2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3013.3 .J3 2013

Databases

Education databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

Related Databases

PsycINFO [electronic resource].
[Bethesda, Md.] : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
Social services abstracts [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
This database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development.
Sociological abstracts.
[San Diego, etc., Sociological Abstracts, inc.]
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HM1 .S67 V.52:NO.6 2004
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
PILOTS Database

This bibliographic database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its provides citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.

Websites

StopBullying.gov
"StopBullying.gov provides information from various government agencies on what bullying is, what cyberbullying is, who is at risk, and how you can prevent and respond to bullying."
American Psychological Association

"The mission of the APA is to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people’s lives."

Center for School Mental Health - University of Maryland School of Medicine

"The mission of the Center for School Mental Health (CSMH) is to strengthen policies and programs in school mental health to improve learning and promote success for America's youth."

Center for Study and Prevention of Violence

"In an effort to establish more complete and valuable information to impact violence-related policies, programs, and practices, CSPV works from a multi-disciplinary platform on the subject of violence and facilitates the building of bridges between the research community and the practitioners and policy makers."

Center for the Prevention of School Violence

"Established in 1993 as one of the nation's first state school safety centers, the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - Center for the Prevention of School Violence serves as a resource center and "think tank" for efforts that promote safer schools and foster positive youth development."

Safe Schools and Violence Prevention - California Department of Education

"Provides training, resources and technical assistance to establish a school/community environment which is physically and emotionally safe, well disciplined, and conducive to learning."

UCLA School Mental Health Project - Center for Mental Health in Schools
Mass Shootings in America: an in-depth analysis

"This website has been built by the Stanford Geospatial Center for the purpose of understanding the history of mass shootings in the United States over the past few decades. It is hoped that by presenting the data in visual form patterns may emerge that can be studied to help prevent future tragedies and that this information contributes to the national debate."