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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 ...

    David P. Farrington, Maria M. Ttofi in Journal of Family Violence (2021)

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    Anna Costanza Baldry (May 16, 1970–March 9, 2019)

    David P. Farrington, Izabela Zych in International Journal of Bullying Preventi… (2020)

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    What 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.

    Sara Valdebenito, Manuel Eisner, David P. Farrington in Journal of Experimental Criminology (2019)

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    Examining 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...

    Hannah Gaffney, David P. Farrington in International Journal of Bullying Preventi… (2019)

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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...

    Izabela Zych, David P. Farrington in Protecting Children Against Bullying and I… (2017)

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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...

    Izabela Zych, David P. Farrington in Protecting Children Against Bullying and I… (2017)

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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...

    Izabela Zych, David P. Farrington in Protecting Children Against Bullying and I… (2017)

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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...

    Izabela Zych, David P. Farrington in Protecting Children Against Bullying and I… (2017)

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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...

    Izabela Zych, David P. Farrington in Protecting Children Against Bullying and I… (2017)

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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 ...

    Izabela Zych, David P. Farrington in Protecting Children Against Bullying and I… (2017)

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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...

    Izabela Zych, David P. Farrington in Protecting Children Against Bullying and I… (2017)

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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...

    David P. Farrington, Maria M. Ttofi in What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabil… (2016)

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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.

    David P. Farrington, Maria M. Ttofi in Journal of Developmental and Life-Course C… (2015)

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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...

    David P. Farrington, Maria M. Ttofi in The Development of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior (2015)

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    School Bullying as a Risk Factor for Later Criminal Offending

    Maria M. Ttofi, David P. Farrington in Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal J… (2014)

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    Bullying Prevention: Assessing Existing Meta-Evaluations

    Maria M. Ttofi, Manuel Eisner in Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal J… (2014)

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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...

    Maria M. Ttofi, David P. Farrington in Journal of Experimental Criminology (2012)

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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...

    Maria M. Ttofi, David P. Farrington in Journal of Experimental Criminology (2011)