Since 1971 the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency has held 55 days of hearings and received testimony from 419 witnesses on topics including the extent and causes of drug abuse, runaway youth, school dropouts, and the confinement of juveniles in detention and correctional facilities. A questionnaire designed to obtain…

One of 52 theoretical papers on school crime and its relation to poverty, this chapter examines the relationship between the major goal of affective educational programs--improved student self-esteem--and school crime. The author believes that by focusing on the whole person, not just the cognitive domain, schools can have an impact on the school…