Opportunity, Involvement, and Student Exposure to School Violence

• NCJ Number: 228556
• Journal: Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice Volume: 7 Issue: 4 Dated: October 2009 Pages: 299-312
• Author(s): Anthony A. Peguero
• Date Published: October 2009
• Length: 14 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This study examined the relationship between school involvement, opportunity, and youth exposure to school violence and victimization.

Abstract

This study revealed three important findings in terms of the relationships between students' school-based extracurricular activities involvement and their exposure to school violence. First, opportunity and involvement conceptual frameworks are applicable when examining student exposure to school violence and victimization. Second, student involvement in classroom-related extracurricular activities and school clubs are associated with an increase in exposure to school violence and victimization. Third, interscholastic school sports athletes are less likely to be exposed to school violence and victimization. Data were collected from 5,899 White-American, 1,622 African-American, 1,729 Latina, and 1,188 Asian-American public school students. Data for this research were drawn from the restricted-use Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002), whose data were obtained from a longitudinal survey administered by the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) for the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) of the United States Department of Education. Tables and references