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Watson, Donnie W. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2004
The literature provides ample evidence of the relationship of substance abuse to crime. Research over the last 20 years has established a strong correlation between substance abuse and juvenile delinquency (held, 1998). Currently, there are more than 350,000 juveniles on probation and in continuing care programs in the U.S. who have substance…
Descriptors: Correlation, Crime, Delinquency, Substance Abuse
Dear, Joseph D. – 1995
California is the only state to require school-violence training as a condition for state certification of teachers, school administrators, and pupil service personnel. This report presents findings of a study conducted by the State of California Commission on Teacher Credentialing's advisory panel on school violence. The study identifies the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Conflict Resolution, Discipline Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
Dear, Joseph D. – 1995
Government officials, researchers, and especially educators must consider the "big picture" as they develop strategies to address violence in schools. This report presents findings of a study conducted by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing's advisory panel on school violence. The study identifies the effects of school violence on…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Conflict Resolution, Discipline Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
California State Office of the Attorney General, Sacramento. Crime Prevention Center. – 1995
This guidebook shows how schools can form partnerships with law-enforcement agencies and communities to develop a comprehensive safe-school plan. The planning guide is based on four principles: that safe schools are caring schools, are built through cooperative efforts of all stakeholders, communicate high standards, and stress prevention. This…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Court Litigation, Discipline Policy
Diver-Stamnes, Ann C. – 1995
This analysis of causes of poverty in the Watts section of Los Angeles (California) and other inner-city communities and of the effects of poverty on children considers exogenous factors that affect lives and behaviors, focusing on the situations of high school students. The first five chapters are arranged around issues cited by those who blame…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Causal Models, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education

Schwartz, Audrey James – Urban Education, 1989
Concern about potential disruption by Latino gang members in East Los Angeles (California) high schools results in over-emphasis on classroom control and neglect of these students' academic and social development. This study recommends steps to encourage the integration and participation in schooling of gang members through individualized…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Classroom Techniques, Educational Attitudes, Grade 10
California Agriculture, 1994
This special issue focuses on problems and challenges confronting the California family and on research and extension efforts to provide at least partial answers. Research briefs by staff include "Challenges Confront the California Family" (state trends in poverty, divorce, single-parent families, child abuse, delinquency, teen births,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Parents, Extension Education

Adler, Peter; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1984
Data collected from 30 East Los Angeles Mexican American mothers, using semistructured interviews, indicated that family related variables distinguish families of gang members from control families. Youths in gangs are more likely to come from families which put less emphasis on intrafamilial socialization, youth supervision, and outward…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Acculturation, Discipline Policy, Family Attitudes
Moore, Joan W. – 1991
This book traces the histories of two Chicano gangs in East Los Angeles since the early 1940s, when common gang stereotypes were created by the media and law enforcement agencies. In an unusual collaborative effort, researchers worked with former gang members to make contact with and interview members of various "cliques" (cohorts) of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Delinquency, Economic Factors
Erlanger, Howard S.; Persily, Fred – 1976
In considering whether subcultural values were associated with violence, it was critical to determine both the precise content of such values and the way in which the subculture interacts with structural forces to affect the level of violence. Based on interview and observational materials, this qualitative study examined the role of…
Descriptors: Activism, Antisocial Behavior, Conflict Resolution, Cultural Traits
Dietrich, Lisa C. – 1998
"Westhills" is a multiethnic coastal community in San Diego County, California, in which Mexican Americans comprise approximately 22 percent of the population. This book reports ethnographic research on a group of working-class Chicana adolescents in one Westhills barrio and their problems, school experiences, immersion in two…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cultural Context, Disadvantaged Schools, Dropouts
Heller, Celia S. – 1966
Studies of Mexican Americans, the third largest minority group, have resulted in an effort to understand them as well as to provide opportunity of exploring whether new trends have appeared among Mexican Americans. This fast-growing group has had a profound effect in settling the Southwest and has been the product of prejudice and discrimination…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Acculturation, Curriculum