School safety interventions: Best practices and programs

Children and Schools

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-32

  Astor, Ron Avi ^a   Meyer, Heather Ann ^b   Benbenishty, Rami ^c   Marachi, Roxana ^d   Rosemond, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interventions; Monitoring; Policy; Schools; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746337903     PISSN: 15328759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cs/27.1.17     Document Type: Review

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