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Peer reviewedBurke, Jim – Educational Leadership, 1991
A California English teacher explores the school safety issue for both innercity and suburban high schools students. Wearing certain sports team jackets can place kids in danger; girls degrade themselves by keeping gang members' drugs and guns in their lockers. Schools can help reclaim the "Great Disconnected" by developing…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Clothing, High Schools, Intervention
Download full textDepartment of Justice, Washington, DC. National Inst. of Justice. – 2000
This report focuses on the activities of the National Institute of Justice in 1998. It begins by discussing the organization and its financial data. Funding growth and collaborative activities since 1994 are also described. Overviews of basic and applied research, technology development, testing the research and technology, initiatives with other…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community, Cooperation, Crime Prevention
Newman, E. Jean – 1999
In this literature review on school violence, over 4,000 sources were found in government reports, journal articles, editorials, and texts. This review is offered as a reference, with the implication that it represents only a cursory overview of this field of study. The paper begins by quoting articles that define school violence and theories as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Elementary Secondary Education, Journal Articles
Facts You Can Use--Seeds of Help, 1997
The escalation of youth violence is one of the major public health concerns of the United States. Many factors today make juveniles more likely to commit, or to become victims of, violent acts. Drugs, the availability of guns, and the emergence of gang problems in all regions of the country are among the causes of youth violence. Prevention of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Delinquency, Early Parenthood
Capuzzi, David, Ed.; Gross, Douglas R., Ed. – 2004
The fourth revision of this text offers both tested prevention strategies for work with diverse at-risk populations and counseling techniques that address the complexities of destructive behavior from individual, family, school, and community perspectives. Drawing on the wisdom of 24 experts, this book provides concrete advice for creating and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Children
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 1993
These transcripts feature statements and testimony from a Senate hearing on gun-related violence among school children. Opening statements by judiciary committee members Joseph R. Biden, Paul Simon, Herbert Kohl, Strom Thurmond, and John H. Chaffee offer statistics and anecdotes about the increasing presence of guns on school campuses, the…
Descriptors: Accidents, Adolescents, Child Health, Children
