Sex, Race/Ethnicity, and Context in School-Associated Student Homicides

Autor/inn/en	Kaufman, Joanne M.; Hall, Jeffrey E.; Zagura, Michelle
Titel	Sex, Race/Ethnicity, and Context in School-Associated Student Homicides
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27 (2012) 12, S.2373-2390 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260511433516
Schlagwörter	Violence; Ethnicity; Rural Areas; Urban Areas; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Homicide; Context Effect; Educational Environment; Victims of Crime; Death; Motivation; Criminals; Institutional Characteristics; Geographic Location; Juvenile Gangs; Poverty; Socioeconomic Status + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gewalt; Ethnizität; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Urban area; Stadtregion; Geschlechterkonflikt; Rassenunterschied; Mord; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Straftäter; Jugendbande; Armut; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status
Abstract	This study assessed the importance of sex, race/ethnicity, and geographic context for incidents of school-associated student homicides between July 1, 1994 and June 30, 1999, covering 5 academic years. Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention School Associated Violent Deaths Study (n = 125 incidents), we compared percentages and medians of victim, offender, motive, and school characteristics for incidents by geographic context and race/ethnicity of the offenders. Most incidents involved urban areas (53.6%), Black and Latino offenders and victims, moderately high youth poverty, and male on male violence (77.6%) driven by disputes and gang-related motives. Suburban area incidents (31.2%) often involved offenders and victims of a different race/ethnicity (51.3%). Multiple victims and White offenders were more common in rural areas (15.2%). More than 50% of the rural incidents involved male offenders and female victims. White offender incidents more often included multiple victims and female victims while Black and Latino offenders more often included single victims of the same sex. These results emphasize the utility of an incident-based analysis of school-associated student homicides in highlighting important variations by intersections of sex, race/ethnicity, and geographic context. (Contains 4 tables and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10