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Advancing Knowledge about Youth Violence: Child Maltreatment, Bullying, Dating Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence
Violence, in all its different manifestations, is a universal problem affecting individuals of different age groups, of different ethnic and religious backgrounds, and of different sexual orientations. Family ...
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Anna Costanza Baldry (May 16, 1970–March 9, 2019)
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Open AccessWhat can we do to reduce disciplinary school exclusion? A systematic review and meta-analysis
To systematically review and quantitatively synthesise the evidence for the impact of different types of school-based interventions on the reduction of school exclusion.
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Open AccessExamining the Effectiveness of School-Bullying Intervention Programs Globally: a Meta-analysis
This article presents results from an extensive systematic and meta-analytical review of the effectiveness of school-based bullying prevention programs. Its main aim is to explore the results of this meta-anal...
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Book
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Introduction
School bullying has been studied for about 40 years and a lot of knowledge has already been gathered regarding its nature, dynamics, predictors, and outcomes. It is already known that bullying is a very damagi...
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Protecting Children Through Anti-bullying Interventions
As described in Chap. 2, systematic reviews and meta-analyses have been conducted on different topics related to bullying and anti-bullying interventions. Am...
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Conclusions
Research on bullying started in the 1970s, and there are now thousands of studies on its nature, dynamics, correlates, and predictors (Zych et al. 2015). Taking into account the complex nature of the phenomeno...
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Protecting Bullies and Victims from Long-term Undesirable Outcomes
This chapter has two aims: first to review evidence on the later life consequences of school bullying and second, to review what is known about protective factors that interrupt the continuity from school bull...
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Personal Protective Factors Against Bullying: Emotional, Social, and Moral Competencies
Although there is no specific profile of a child involved in bullying, there are some personal characteristics that increase a child’s likelihood of being involved. At the same time, there are certain competen...
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School Bullying in Different Countries: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Short-Term Outcomes
School bullying is a specific kind of aggression in which students display frequent and long-term aggressive behavior toward their peers. This aggressive behavior is intentionally perpetrated on a student who ...
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Contextual Protective Factors Against Bullying
Personal protective factors classified into social, emotional, and moral competencies have been described in Chap. 3. Children with better competencies are l...
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Developmental and Social Prevention
The main aim of this chapter is to assess systematic reviews of the effects of developmental and social prevention programs. These programs are defined as community-based programs designed to prevent antisocia...
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Intergenerational Similarities in Risk Factors for Offending
The main aim of this article is to investigate to what extent the relationships between risk factors and offending by males are similar from one generation to the next.
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2 Developmental and Life-Course Theories of Offending
The main aim of this chapter is to review the key elements of nine developmental and life-course criminology theories, focusing especially on key empirical research that has been carried out to test them. Thes...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
School Bullying as a Risk Factor for Later Criminal Offending
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Bullying Prevention: Assessing Existing Meta-Evaluations
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Bullying prevention programs: the importance of peer intervention, disciplinary methods and age variations
The aim of this paper is to respond to the commentary of Peter K. Smith, Christina Salmivalli, and Helen Cowie (Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2012), who raise concerns regarding some of the findings of our...
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Effectiveness of school-based programs to reduce bullying: a systematic and meta-analytic review
This article presents a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of anti-bullying programs in schools. Studies were included if they evaluated the effects of an anti-bullying program by compari...