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Kevin C. Runions; Jonathan H. Sae-Koew; Natasha Pearce; Kiira Sarasjärvi; Matilda Attey; Francis Mitrou – Health Education & Behavior, 2025
Growing up in socioeconomic disadvantage increases risk of peer bullying at school. Both socioeconomic status and involvement in bullying are predictive of a range of adverse developmental outcomes. However, neither (a) the mechanisms whereby disadvantage increases bullying risk nor (b) the developmental outcomes for which bullying may mediate…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Peer Relationship, Bullying
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Hill-Smith, Andrew J.; Hugo, Pippa; Hughes, Patricia; Fonagy, Peter; Hartman, David – Journal of Adolescence, 2002
This study examines a group of 21 imprisoned males, convicted of murder whilst aged 18 years or less, and compares them on a range of psychosocial variables to 21 convicted non-violent burglars. Results showed that lower socio-economic status, harsh parenting, and exclusion from school were significantly more common for murderers. Confirms that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Environmental Influences, Family Environment
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Loeber, Rolf; Pardini, Dustin; Homish, D. Lynn; Wei, Evelyn H.; Crawford, Anne M.; Farrington, David P.; Stouthamer-Loeber, Magda; Creemers, Judith; Koehler, Steven A.; Rosenfeld, Richard – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
In this prospective study, the authors predicted violence and homicide in 3 representative school samples (N = 1,517). Participants were part of a longitudinal, multiple cohort study on the development of delinquency in boys from late childhood to early adulthood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thirty-three participants were convicted of homicide,…
Descriptors: Risk, Males, Homicide, Violence
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Curry, Vicky – Journal of School Violence, 2003
On May 21, 1998 Kipland Kinkel entered Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, gunned down two students and injured scores more, after murdering his parents the night before. There is a dearth of research focused on the effects of such violence in school settings where the perpetrator is a peer of his victims. We do not know if, how, or under…
Descriptors: Proximity, High Schools, Violence, Adolescents