Safety of schools and other educational institutions

This section will post articles, research, reviews and other materials of the project participants on the topic - «Safety and security of educational institutions and other places with mass attendance of children, from threats of criminal, terrorist and other nature».
A promising direction for publications:
At the present time, research on effective measures to ensure the safety of educational and other institutions for children is quite relevant and of real practical interest to specialists. Situations in which high-profile crimes with large numbers of victims are committed in kindergartens, schools, colleges, universities, and other places with large concentrations of children and adolescents are no longer uncommon. Educational facilities have often become targets for terrorist attacks, and the «Columbine»* movement, or «Skulshooting»* or «School Shooters»*, is also a growing dangerous phenomenon around the world.
An equally urgent threat today is the commission of crimes against the sexual integrity of underage pupils and students, as well as crimes of an ordinary criminal nature.
Another important area for research is the development of effective methods to counteract the growing activity of «school gangs» and other informal groups of adolescents, who pursue illegal goals, including the spreading of criminal or extremist ideology.
It is important to remember that when working on materials on these issues, authors should not evaluate or make judgments about the causes of these phenomena. Social, political, religious or other motives that served as the basis for mass murders, terrorist acts or other crimes should not be discussed. This should be handled by subject matter specialists such as psychologists, educators, sociologists and journalists. The purpose of our project is to review the situation from the professional perspective, as specialists in law enforcement, public order and safety, and combating terrorism and extremism.
The requirements to the content and design of publications, the order of their placement and recommendations on copyright protection can be found in the section Contacts.
* in a number of countries are recognized as extremist movements and terrorist organizations, the activities of which are prohibited

Publications of the project participants, on the topic of the section:

Handbook of Crimes and Terrorist Acts in Schools and Other Educational Institutions.
author - Roman Grishin, Russia
Information and Reference Manual. It contains statistical and other data on crimes and incidents of criminal and terrorist nature committed in schools, other educational and childcare institutions (including preschools) in the period from 2000 to 2023 (first edition) inclusive. In addition, the handbook contains the results of statistical analysis of these data, both for separate time periods and in comparison, and, based on the collected information, the author has attempted to create a «statistical model» of a potential criminal. Periodically reprinted with changes and additions.
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Ensuring the safety of schools, other educational organizations and institutions with mass attendance of children.
author - Roman Grishin, Russia
The article consists of two parts. In the first, the author analyzes the current situation, the level of existing and probable threats, the vulnerability of the existing system of school security. On the example of the U.S. foreign experience in this matter, the general principles and individual elements, approaches and solutions used there to build a system of security of educational and other children's institutions, their comparison, evaluation of effectiveness.
In the second part, based on the earlier analysis, the author puts forward his proposals for a set of measures, the use of which, in his opinion, can effectively counter both existing and probable threats.
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