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Arwen Abenstern Students enjoy more physical safety inside the doors of their schools than they do elsewhere (Devoe et al., 2002; National Center for Educational Statistics, NCES, 1998; Myths, undated). Students may well be up to ten times safer in school than anywhere else in our otherwise violent society (Goldstein & Conoley, 1997). After roughly two decades of steady increase, violent crime among youth dropped during the 1990s (Myths, undated; NCES, 1998). This reduction in youth violence occurred both inside of and outside of school. Despite these data and years of progress in violence prevention, schools are not as safe as practitioners would like them to be (Braaten, 2004).
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