These University of Oregon experts are available to answer media inquiries and to discuss issues related to youth violence in schools.
Jeff Sprague Sprague is co-director of the University of Oregon Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior. He is prepared to comment on the root causes of violent behavior. The institute has been instrumental in the development of a number of prevention and school safety programs used throughout the country. Sprague is a nationally recognized expert on early prevention of violence.
Tom Dishion
Tom Dishion of the University of Oregon studies the factors that cause adolescents to move from relatively minor misbehavior to serious behavior problems. He can discuss the causes as well as interventions that are effective in reducing and preventing adolescent problem behavior. Director of a family-based prevention program that is funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse to prevent adolescent problem behavior, Dishion has recently focused on how peer dynamics play in those changes. An expert on interventions, he has found that interventions that segregate youth into groups may often have negative, long-term effects.
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