Reducing the Risks of Firearm Violence in High Schools: Principals’ Perceptions and Practices

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 234-243

  Price, James H ^a   Khubchandani, Jagdish ^b   Payton, Erica ^b   Thompson, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Firearms; Guns; High schools; Principals; School violence

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FIREARM; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL; VIOLENCE;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ADULT; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SCHOOLS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84959506197     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: 15733610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-015-0087-0     Document Type: Article

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