School violence
Introduction:
For this discussion, you will examine the best practices and methods educators, governmental agencies, and law enforcement professionals are using to evaluate and mitigate risk of targeted violence and terrorism against U.S. educational institutions based on prior historic incidents.
Instructions:
Assess the phenomenon of school violence.
Identify the implications of the Beslan and Mumbai attacks relative to the phenomenon of school violence in the United States.
Summarize how the information you have learned in this unit can be used to mitigate threats to schools in your community.
Characterize contagion of violence.
Explore how the Beslan and Mumbai attacks can be assimilated relative to contagion of violence.
Explain the use of threat assessment in pre- through post-secondary education.
Elaborate on the information presented in FEMA’s IS-907 activity and how it relates to the information presented throughout this course.
Describe how the CDC’s suggestions relative to schools’ utilization of CPTED can assist pre- through post-secondary educational institutions.
Special Instructions:
Create a 1 page essay using APA format in accordance to the instructions above. Use 2 academically reviewed sources for references. Be sure to utilize in-text citations. In addition, there is a transcript in the link below that is required for your assessment.