Safe Passage: A Guide to Addressing School Violence offers expert perspectives and guidance in understanding, assessing, and addressing school violence. Although the book is designed for child and adolescent forensic psychiatrists and psychologists seeking proficiency in youth violence risk assessment, educators, school administrators, mental health clinicians, other health care professionals who work with children, and interested laypersons will also find the book both practical and illuminating. The editors' approach to school violence is informed by their educational, scholarly, clinical, and forensic work with children and adults who have been disenfranchised through the cumulative effects of poverty, trauma, untreated mental illness, and inadequate access to education. This background has fostered a sensitivity to and understanding of critically important developmental factors that can be passed on generationally, which are explored in depth in the volume. Case vignettes and follow-ups are used liberally to illustrate and illuminate the range of violent situations (e.g., bullying, cyberbullying, gang violence, sexual violence) likely to be encountered, as well as the advantages and disadvantages inherent in various interventions. The authors stress that threat assessment must take individual, school, and community variables into account, a complex but necessary task for mental health professionals and educators who wish to safeguard individuals and society from harm.

ContributorsPrefaceForewordPart I: FoundationsChapter 1. An Introduction to School ViolenceChapter 2. A Recipe for Violence: Immaturity, Impulsivity, and AggressionChapter 3. Inconvenient Truths: Profiling and Its LimitationsChapter 4. Danger at Home: Addressing Violence Outside SchoolChapter 5. Bullying and CyberbullyingChapter 6. Understanding and Addressing Youth Sexual ViolenceChapter 7. Growing Up in Fear: School Shootings, Attacks, and Gang ViolencePart II: Threat and Risk AssessmentChapter 8. Hostile Intent: The Principles of Threat AssessmentChapter 9. Avoiding Danger: The Principles of Violence Risk AssessmentPart III: InterventionsChapter 10. A System of Care: Addressing Aggression and Violence in SchoolsChapter 11. Assessing and Addressing School ClimateChapter 12. Violence and the MediaAfterwordAppendix A: Example Threat Assessment Questions for Use With Grade School StudentsAppendix B: Example Threat Assessment Questions for Use With Middle School StudentsAppendix C: Example Threat Assessment Questions for Use With High School and College Students