NCJ Number
181068
Journal
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume: 567 Issue: Special Issue Dated: January 2000 Pages: 1-247
Editor(s)
Alan W. Heston
Date Published
2000
Length
247 pages
Annotation
This special journal issue contains a collection of articles on school violence, juvenile gangs, drugs in school, effects of the school climate on school disorders, factors associated with youth violence, school discipline, the prevention of school violence, and juvenile corrections.
Abstract
Beginning articles address alienation from society, community, and social institutions; changed roles, values, and morality in families and schools; and media sensationalization of gang culture and its impact on fear. Subsequent articles cover corporate and commercial exploitation of gang culture, drugs in schools, poverty and inequality among low-income youth, school discipline and school security and their impact on fear, and school organization and climate. Solutions to the problem of school violence are recommended that involve multiple-level responses. Contributors to the volume believe that an effective strategy against school violence must go beyond a simplistic focus on students to look at the interconnections between violence and the social context in which it occurs. References, notes, tables, and figures