Weapon-carrying at Swiss schools? A gender-specific typology in context of victim and offender related violence.
After reviewing prevalence rates, this work tries to identify gender specific groups in which weapon-carrying occurs in the context of victim and offender related violent behaviours. k-Means cluster and logistic regression analyses were calculated, based on a cross-sectional survey of a national representative sample of 1549 15-year-olds as part of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) international collaborative study. The victims and offenders of violence concern mainly female bullies and physically violent boys. In the male victim-offender group, 17% had already taken a weapon to school. Another male group emerged in which 95% had already taken a weapon to school. Members of this group revealed an elevated level of acting violently but a low level of being the victim. Among the minority girls who were offenders and victims of physical violence, everyone has already taken a weapon to school. Based on these results, homogenous risk groups can be targeted for violence prevention.
Kuntsche
Emmanuel N
EN
Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, PO Box 870, Lausanne 1001. ekuntsche@sfa-ispa.ch
Klingemann
Harald K-H
HK
D000293:Adolescent; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D019548:Crime Victims; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005389:Firearms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012574:Schools; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013557:Switzerland; D014754:Violence / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data