This paper describes the immense difficulty of predicting that someone is going to carry out a school shooting and then turns to threat assessment as a more promising violence prevention strategy. In schools, a multidisciplinary threat assessment team investigates reported threats and develops responses that are calibrated to the seriousness of the threat and the student's educational needs. Researchers have found that school teams have been able to resolve thousands of student threats with no serious acts of violence, yet permitting the majority of students to return to school. Controlled studies have found that schools using this approach can have reductions in the use of school suspension and improvements in student and teacher perceptions of school climate.

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威胁评估作为学校暴力预防策略

本文描述了预测某人将要进行学校枪击然后转向威胁评估作为一种更有希望的暴力预防策略的巨大困难。在学校中，多学科威胁评估小组将调查报告的威胁，并根据威胁的严重性和学生的教育需求制定应对措施。研究人员发现，校队已经能够解决数千种学生的威胁，而没有发生严重的暴力行为，但却允许大多数学生返回学校。对照研究发现，使用这种方法的学校可以减少学校停学的使用，并改善学生和老师对学校氛围的认识。