Focuses on judicial reception of schools' attempts to curb violence, particularly predatory violence and psychopathological violence. School responses have been to create violence-prevention policies based on punitive measures or punish offending behavior after it has occurred. Such reactions may result in finding that schools have abridged…

This report contains digests of concern to public and parochial school students as well as to students in higher education institutions. The digests were compiled from court decisions published in the National Reporter System during the 1969 calendar year. The decisions reported are from 36 States and the District of Columbia. All but four are of…