Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Multilevel Social Control Model of Everyday School Violence

校园暴力事件加剧了公众对学校安全的担忧。它们还引起了学术界对此类暴力原因的关注。关于青少年普遍攻击性的两种理论可能有助于解释校园暴力行为。一种理论强调青年个体与其家庭、学校和宗教组织之间的社会纽带对于预防暴力的重要性。另一种理论强调学校环境中的社会控制对个人暴力行为的重要性。这个项目使用肯塔基州有代表性的县的学校七年级学生的样本数据，解决了关于校园暴力原因的四个问题？第一，个人与家庭、学校、同龄人和宗教的联系有什么影响？第二，不同学校之间建立联系的效果是否有所不同？第三，学校层面的变量，如种族构成、学生流动性和经济资源，会产生什么影响？第四，学校组织在教师监督和干预方面是否影响学校层面变量的影响？研究结果不仅有助于了解暴力的原因，还有助于确定预防校园暴力的有效手段。

Episodes of violence in schools have heightened public concern with school safety. They have also generated scholarly concern with the causes of such violence. Two theories of general aggression among adolescents may help explain acts of violence in schools. One theory emphasizes the importance for violence prevention of the social bonds individual youth have with their families, schools, and religious organizations. Another theory emphasizes the importance of social control within the school environment for individual acts of violence. Using data on a sample of seventh-grade students from schools in a representative sample of counties in Kentucky, this project addresses four questions concerning the causes of school violence? One, what are the effects of the bonding of individuals to families, schools, peers, and religion? Two, do the effects of bonding vary across schools? Three, what are the effects of school-level variables such as racial composition, student mobility, and financial resources? And four, does the organization of schools in terms of teacher supervision and intervention affect the influence of the school-level variables? The results not only contribute to the understanding of the causes of violence, but also help identify effective means to prevent school violence.