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Meade, Jeff – Education Week, 1998
Discusses the prevalence of school arson, motives for setting school fires, and sex and type of student involvement within the context of a detailed description of the high school burning in rural Cross Plains, Texas. Investigation findings and community and teacher reactions are given. (SAS)
Descriptors: Delinquency, Fire Protection, High School Students, High Schools
Bayh, Birch – Viewpoints in Teaching and Learning, 1979
The problem of violence and vandalism in schools is presented, and a number of promising programs that appear to be effective in reducing violence are outlined. (JMF)
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavior Standards, Delinquency, Guidelines
Stover, Del – American School Board Journal, 1986
Provides an in-depth discussion of issue of gang violence and effects on schools. In past two decades street gangs have become a problem, not just in large urban centers, but also in smaller urban areas and suburbs. Outlines seven ways to work at preventing gang activities in schools. Urges school boards to play greater role in fighting gang…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textSnyder, Howard N. – 2002
This bulletin examines the national and state juvenile arrest rate in 2000 using data reported annually by local law enforcement agencies nationwide to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program. Results indicate that the murder rate in 2000 was the lowest since 1965; juvenile arrests for violence in 2000 were the lowest since 1988; few juveniles…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Crime, Delinquency, Homicide
Kenney, Dennis Jay; Watson, T. Steuart – 1998
Schools are the primary means by which society transmits skills, values, and concepts about self to youth. Without a safe and secure environment, it becomes virtually impossible for students to learn. This book reports on one project to change the atmosphere of fear in a high school. Eleventh grade students were taught the SARA (Scanning,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Crime Prevention, Delinquency, Discipline Problems
National School Resource Network, Washington, DC. – 1980
This bulletin addresses the issue of improving interagency cooperation between the school and the court for the purpose of coordinating their efforts to reduce violence and vandalism within the school and the community. The experiences of Berrien County (Michigan) are used to illustrate the process of assessing, formalizing, and maintaining…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Delinquency, Elementary Secondary Education
Pearson, Dennis A.; Goff, Clinton – 1977
This project was part of the Portland High Impact Program and had as its goal a 60 percent reduction in burglary losses over a three-year period to be attained by installing centrally-monitored, silent, anti-intrusion devices in eleven schools. Comparison with eleven control schools indicates that the alarm system has demonstrated effectiveness in…
Descriptors: Alarm Systems, Attendance, Cost Effectiveness, Delinquency
