Conference Presentations

September 6, 2012 Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia
Authoritative school discipline and zero tolerance: Questions of fairness and effectiveness

August 20, 2012 Page County Public Schools Convocation, Luray, Virginia
Good schools are like good parents

July 30, 2012 DCJS School Safety Conference, Hampton, Virginia
Good schools are like good parents: Demanding, but supportive

July 17, 2012 Workshop Aggression, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

June 20, 2012, Bullying Prevention State Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia
The Assessment of School Climate and the Identification of Victims of Bullying

March 17, 2012 American Psychology-Law Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico
A randomized controlled study of student threat assessment

February 22, 2012 National Association of School Psychologists, Philadelphia, PA
Workshop handouts for Guidelines for Responding to Student Threats of Violence

August 6, 2011 American Psychological Association presentation, Washington, DC
The relationship of school structure and support to suspension rates for Black and White high school students

2011 APA Poster Presentations, Washington, DC

August 2, 2011 School and Campus Safety Training Forum, Hampton, Virginia
Authoritative Schools

April 7, 2010 Les États Généraux de la Sécurité À L’École: Comprendre, Prévenir, Agir, Paris, France
Violence Prevention in American Schools

March 30, 2010 Parent Symposium, Mooresville, North Carolina
Bullying and School Safety: Fears vs Facts

March 20, 2010 Staff Training Program, Mooresville Graded School District, Mooresville, North Carolina
Violence Prevention in Schools

November 8, 2009 Workshop on Student Threat Assessment, Berlin, Germany
The Virginia Model for Student Threat Assessment

November 7, 2009 Keynote at XIV Workshop Aggression, Berlin, Germany
Prevention of School Shootings in the United States

October 23, 2009 Presentation at Virginia Psychological Association Fall Conference, Richmond, Virginia
Findings from the Virginia High School Safety Study

August 3, 2009 Presentation at the Governor’s Campus Preparedness Conference, Richmond, Virginia
College Threat Assessment as a Violence Prevention Strategy

July 28, 2009 Presentation at the School and Campus Safety Training Forum, Hampton Roads, Virginia
Recommended Practices for Virginia College Threat Assessment

June 22, 2009 Presentation at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden
Preventing lethal school violence: The American experience. What we know about school shootings & promising preventive approaches

2003-2008 Archived Presentations

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