Dewey Cornell
Dewey Cornell | |
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| Born | Dewey Gene Cornell |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | Transylvania University University of Michigan |
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| Fields | Forensic psychology |
| Institutions | University of Virginia |
| Thesis | Families of Gifted Children (1981) |
Dewey G. Cornell is an American forensic and clinical psychologist known for his research on youth violence and school security.[1] He is Professor of Education in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, where he also holds the Bunker Chair in Education. He is the director of the University of Virginia's Virginia Youth Violence Project, as well as a faculty associate at the university's Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. He is the principal author of the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines, which are widely used for threat assessment in schools in the United States and Canada.[2][3] Using the guidelines, he has found that 97.7% of threats made in schools were never attempted.[4]
References
- ^ Bellows, Sierra (Spring 2008). "How Safe Are Our Schools?: Professor Dewey Cornell traces the roots of violence". Virginia Magazine. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
- ^ "Dewey Cornell". Curry School of Education and Human Development. 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
- ^ Mandell, Josh (2018-03-16). "School safety measures discussed at Charlottesville forum". Charlottesville Tomorrow. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
- ^ Baars, Samantha (2017-06-14). "Threat assessment: UVA prof says schools are safe". C-Ville. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
External links
- Faculty Page
- Psichologas Raimonda
- Dewey Cornell publications indexed by Google Scholar
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