Is a weapons-screening strategy for public schools good public policy?

Jackson Toby

doi:10.7282/T32J697C

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Is a weapons-screening strategy for public schools good public policy?

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Is a weapons-screening strategy for public schools good public policy?

Jackson Toby

Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, Vol.27, pp.261-266

2002

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7282/T32J697C

Abstract

School violence

Public schools--Security measures

A situational crime prevention strategy is essentially the basis for hopes to prevent a recurrence of terrorist attacks on airliners. Can "entry-based weapons-screening" cope with the problem of school violence effectively? I have doubts that it can.

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Title: Subtitle: Is a weapons-screening strategy for public schools good public policy?
Creators: Jackson Toby (Author) - Sociology, Rutgers University
Publication Details: Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, Vol.27, pp.261-266
Date published: 2002
Publisher: Duke University Press
Number of pages: 6 pages
Academic Unit: School of Arts and Sciences; Sociology (SAS)
Language: English
Resource Type: Accepted manuscript
Comment: Published in Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, April 1, 2002. Copyright Duke University Press.
Identifiers: 991031549877204646