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Peer reviewedTygart, Clarence – Adolescence, 1988
Investigated public school vandalism with 7th through 12th grade students. Found vandalism highest in 7th grade, decreasing progressively with each increase in grade level. Predictors of vandalism included being from the lowest academic track, having committed acts of vandalism during junior high school (for high school students), coming from…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Models, Prediction, Public Schools
Peer reviewedKirkpatrick, John T. – Library Trends, 1984
Reviews nature of criminal activity in libraries in context of two criminological theoretical groupings: psychological theories (encompasses criminological attention to individual psychological traits), and sociological theories (examines ways in which societies are structured and how structures might generate crime). Some strategies of prevention…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Crime, Crime Prevention, Criminology
