School violence and criminology: Free article access

This month only, Routledge (publisher of multiple academic journals) is offering free access to a series of articles on school violence relevant to forensic psychology. Click on any of the articles below to access the content:

• “The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions”: A Historical, Theoretical, and Legal Analysis of Zero-Tolerance Weapons Policies in American Schools (In: Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth)

• The Practice of Campus-Based Threat Assessment: An Overview (In: Journal of College Student Psychotherapy)

• The Prevalence of Stalking Among College Students: The Disparity Between Researcher- and Self-identified Victimization (In: Journal of American College Health)

• Releasing Their Stories: A Qualitative Study of Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth with Histories of Mental Health Issues and Violence (In: Journal of Forensic Social Work)

• Effects of “Safe School” Programs and Policies on the Social Climate for Sexual-Minority Youth: A Review of the Literature (In: Journal of LGBT Youth)

• Providing Anchors - Reclaiming Our Troubled Youth: Lessons for Leaders from a Study of 15 Targeted School Shooters (In: The Educational Forum)

•  The Relevance of the School Class as Social Unit for the Prevalence of Bullying and Victimization (In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology)

• Urban African American Youth Exposed to Community Violence: A School-Based Anxiety Preventive Intervention Efficacy Study (In: Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community)

• Young Offenders’ Perceptions of School: An Ecological Analysis (In: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law)

• The Impact of Bullying and Coping Strategies on the Psychological Distress of Young Offenders (In: Psychology, Crime & Law)

• ‘Stop It, That’s Enough’: Bystander Intervention and Its Relationship to School Connectedness and Shame Management (In: Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies)

The above is just a sampling. For a complete list of the articles, in the form of an interactive online PDF, click HERE.

Justice Quarterly virtual special issues

Wait, there's more!

In honor of its 30th anniversary, Justice Quarterly has put together a set of four virtual special issues, featuring highly cited scholarship from the archives:

• Thoughts on Seminal Theoretical Criminology 

• The Growth and Development of Correctional Research 

• A Generation of Policing Research

• 30 Years of Research on Court Processing

With all of this free content, hopefully there is something here for everyone.