Dewey Cornell

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]

Dewey Cornell
Born
Dewey Gene Cornell
NationalityUnited States
EducationTransylvania University
University of Michigan
Scientific career
FieldsForensic psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Virginia
ThesisFamilies of Gifted Children (1981)

References
  1. Bellows, Sierra (Spring 2008). "How Safe Are Our Schools?: Professor Dewey Cornell traces the roots of violence". Virginia Magazine. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
  2. "Dewey Cornell". Curry School of Education and Human Development. 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
  3. Mandell, Josh (2018-03-16). "School safety measures discussed at Charlottesville forum". Charlottesville Tomorrow. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
  4. Baars, Samantha (2017-06-14). "Threat assessment: UVA prof says schools are safe". C-Ville. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
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