NCJ Number
58773
Date Published
1978
Length
1559 pages
Annotation
THE 40 ORIGINAL PAPERS IN THIS COMPILATION DISCUSS THE CAUSES OF SCHOOL CRIME, ITS RELATION TO POVERTY, AND THE ROLE SCHOOLS PLAY IN GENERATING CRIME WITHIN THE SCHOOL AND IN SOCIETY.
Abstract
ORGANIZED INTO THREE VOLUMES, THE PAPERS PROVIDE ACADEMIC VIEWS ON SCHOOL CRIME, WITH HEAVY EMPHASIS ON CAUSATIVE FACTORS AND LIMITED ATTENTION TO PREVENTION APPROACHES. SEVERAL OF THE PAPERS COVERING HIGH SCHOOLS DEAL WITH SUCH TOPICS AS VANDALISM, REBELLION AGAINST AUTHORITY, SCHOOL VIOLENCE AND THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF HIGH SCHOOLS, CREATION OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR IN HIGH SCHOOLS, ORDER AND DISRUPTION IN A DESEGREGATED HIGH SCHOOL, TRENDS IN VIOLENCE AND CRIME IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS FROM 1950 TO 1975, AND ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLYING PROGRAMS USED TO PREVENT OR REDUCE STUDENT VIOLENCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS. HISTORICAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL VIEWS ARE PROVIDED IN PAPERS ON CRIME AND DISRUPTION AMONG APPALACHIAN STUDENTS, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE SCHOOLING PROCESS, ANTIQUATED SOCIAL CONTROL MECHANISMS, AND SCHOOL, DELINQUENCY, AND THE YOUTH CULTURE IN NORTH AMERICA AND ENGLAND. SUBSEQUENT PAPERS CENTER ON ESSENTIALLY SOCIOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL CONCERNS: AESTHETIC THEORIES OF SCHOOL VANDALISM, THE MASS MEDIA AND SCHOOL CRIME, A RATIONALE AND MODEL FOR TRAINING EDUCATIONAL SPECIALISTS TO WORK WITH DISRUPTIVE YOUTH, CHILDREN IN JAIL, THE INTRINSIC REWARDS OF SCHOOL CRIME, LEGAL LEXICON AND SOCIAL LABELING, THE HUMAN ECOLOGY OF SCHOOL CRIME, SCHOOL CRIME AS A FUNCTION OF PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT, ALIENATION AND DELINQUENCY, THEORETICAL VIEWS ON POVERTY AND DELINQUENCY, HUMAN RELATIONS IN THE SCHOOL SETTING, THE SOCIAL PATTERNING OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR, AVENUES OF ALIENATION IN THE SOCIALIZATION LINKAGES BETWEEN SCHOOLS AND THE COMMUNITY, AND PREPARADIGMATIC RESEARCH ON SCHOOL VANDALISM. DISCUSSION OF PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES RELATE TO COPING WITH VANDALISM IN THE FAMILY AND SCHOOL, DELINQUENCY AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, AND AN INTEGRATED, COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH TO THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DISTURBING BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN. REFERENCES, GRAPHS, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS ACCOMPANY SELECTED PAPERS. FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS IN THIS COMPILATION, SEE NCJ 58774-58799. (KBL)