Safety in Schools and Their Surroundings: A Case Study in Istanbul

Abstract

This work proposes school safety be considered in terms of the wider perspective of urban safety in general, taking a totalitarian approach and presenting the basic problems and possible solutions inherent within the issue of safeguarding schools. School safety should not merely lie within the boundaries of any one school. School safety must be considered as one aspect of urban safety as a whole. Data presented in this article was collected by the International Strategic Research Organization (ISRO) as part of the four year, 2008-2012, Istanbul Urban Safety Project. The article does not consider threats to safety inside the school and its environs as matters to be dealt with by the police, but rather takes a holistic approach in the context of wider social problems to which the solutions lie in the implementation of comprehensive policies that include the school, the family, the social environment and policing in that order.

Safety Risks of Primary and Secondary Schools in China: A Systematic Analysis Using AHP–EWM Method

“…Statistical studies on PSS have been developed to explore the frequency distributions of issues such as accident analysis, disaster causes, and demographic characteristics. Bahar [10] identified school safety as one aspect of urban safety, considering the threats to safety inside the school and its outside environment by analyzing the data collected by the Istanbul Urban Safety Project from 2008 to 2012. Hundeloh and Hess [11] summarized the key factors and characteristics of promoting school safety by emphasizing practical changes in construction and fittings, education, training, organization, and politics.…”