Dewey G. Cornell is an American forensic and clinical psychologist known for his research on youth violence and

school security School security encompasses all measures taken to combat threats to people and property in education environments. One term connected to school security is school safety, which is defined as the sheltering of students from violence and bullying, a ...

. He is Professor of Education in the School of Education and Human Development (formerly the Curry School of Education) at the

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, 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

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in schools in the United States and

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. Using the guidelines, he has found that 97.7% of threats made in schools were never attempted.

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