Dewey Cornell | |
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Born | Dewey Gene Cornell |
Nationality | American |
Education | Transylvania University University of Michigan |
Scientific career | |
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 School of Education and Human Development (formerly 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]
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