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Violence in schools has long been a primary concern of school administrators, parents, and students themselves. While school-shootings are the most publicized type of school violence , low level violence that occurs between students in the form of bullying or physical fights in schools is much more common.
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Gershoff, E.T., Purtell, K.M., Holas, I. (2015). Introduction. In: Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14818-2_1
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