ABSTRACT

Threat assessment has been proposed as a method for schools to respond to student threats of violence that does not rely on exclusionary discipline practices (e.g., suspension, transfer, expulsion, arrest). The present study compared disciplinary consequences for 657 students in 260 schools using the Comprehensive Student Threat Assessment Guidelines (CSTAG) with a comparison group of 661 students in 267 schools using a more general threat assessment approach. The odds that students receiving a threat assessment in CSTAG schools would receive a suspension (OR = 0.59) or law enforcement action (OR = 0.47) were less than those in schools using a general approach. Students in CSTAG schools were expelled at lower rates (0% versus 1.7%) than students in comparison schools. These results indicate that schools using the CSTAG model are less likely to respond to student threats with exclusionary discipline.

摘要

已经提出了威胁评估，作为学校应对学生暴力威胁的一种方法，该方法不依赖于排他性纪律做法（例如，停学，转移，开除，逮捕）。本研究比较了《综合学生威胁评估指南》（CSTAG）对260所学校中657名学生的纪律后果，并使用更通用的威胁评估方法对267所学校中的661名​​学生进行了比较。在CSTAG学校接受威胁评估的学生获得停学（OR  = 0.59）或执法行动（OR = 0.47）低于采用一般方法的学校。与比较学校相比，CSTAG学校的学生被开除的比率较低（0％比1.7％）。这些结果表明，使用CSTAG模型的学校不太可能以排他学科来应对学生的威胁。