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.
Research Department, Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems, PO Box 870, Lausanne 1001. ekuntsche@sfa-ispa.ch
Emmanuel N
EN
Kuntsche
Harald K-H
HK
Klingemann
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