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Bullying Prevention: Assessing Existing Meta-Evaluations

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Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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Evaluation; Intervention research; Meta-analysis; Prevention; School aggression; School programs

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In this entry contemporary methodological issues in bullying prevention research are considered. The findings of extant systematic reviews and meta-analyses of school-based bullying prevention programs are assessed and integrated, with the aim of drawing clearer and more differentiated conclusions regarding their efficacy. Conclusions are drawn based on six reports, of which two included a systematic review but no meta-analysis, two included a systematic review and a meta-analysis, and two were not based on systematic searches of the literature but included some level of meta-analytic assessment. Based on a careful screening of all available meta-analytic investigations, it is concluded that bullying prevention programs are effective in reducing bullying and victimization. However, research users should be careful in identifying those intervention components and...

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  1. Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Maria M. Ttofi & Manuel Eisner

  2. Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Catherine P. Bradshaw

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  1. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

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  4. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

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Ttofi, M.M., Eisner, M., Bradshaw, C.P. (2014). Bullying Prevention: Assessing Existing Meta-Evaluations. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_585

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