Welcome to episode 70 of The Criminology Academy podcast! On today’s episode, we have Dr. Beverly Kingston! Join us as we learn about school violence and responses to school violence.
Beverly Kingston, Ph.D., is director and Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on addressing the root causes of violence by creating the conditions that support healthy human development throughout the life course. She has led several multi-million dollar school and community initiatives and research studies that focus on implementing a comprehensive public health approach to violence prevention. Dr. Kingston has published articles on using comprehensive public health models to address youth violence, school safety, neighborhood social factors, and health and the built environment.
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Get in touch with Beverly:
The University of Colorado Boulder website // beverly.kingston AT colorado.edu
This is the article authored by Beverly and her colleagues that were discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Kingston, B., Mattson, S. A., Dymnicki, A., Spier, E., Fitzgerald, M., Shipman, K., … & Elliott, D. (2018). Building schools’ readiness to implement a comprehensive approach to school safety. Clinical child and family psychology review, 21, 433-449. [Article Link].
Link to the Katie Couric video mentioned in this episode of The Crim Academy:
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