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Kim, Jeongsuk; Gentle-Genitty, Carolyn; Kim, Jangmin – School Psychology International, 2020
Many studies have examined significant factors associated with school delinquency among adolescents, including relationship violence, property damage, and other serious threats to students' safety. However, students' coping behaviors after being victims of or witnesses to violence and other forms of delinquency have not been thoroughly examined.…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Middle School Students, High School Students, Violence
Rubel, Robert J. – 1979
This volume summarizes, analyzes, and discusses the 52 papers on theoretical perspectives of school crime and poverty solicited by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) for the purpose of illuminating findings from the "Safe School Study Report to Congress." It also analyzes 12 papers not included in the original NCCD…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Delinquent Behavior
Natriello, Gary; Scott, Paul – 1981
This paper examines the relationship between the evaluation (for both behavior and academic work) and authority systems of public high schools and the extent to which students in those schools become disengaged. Student disengagement is reflected in student absenteeism, low-level student participation in school, and student participation in…
Descriptors: Attendance, Conflict, Power Structure, School Vandalism
Jackson, Maurice A. – 1976
The author, an experienced principal from Washington, D.C., spent the 1975-76 school year on leave to the National Institute of Education to work on a program to identify and visit secondary schools that had experienced recent incidents of violence but were on their way toward stabilizing and containing the disruptive situation. The author…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Crime, Educational Change
Institute for Development of Educational Activities, Dayton, OH. – 1974
School security directors, educators, and social scientists met in conference to explore in depth the causes of school crime and to recommend realistic means of containing and minimizing it. The conferees made the following recommendations. All school administrators should set up an appropriate recordkeeping system in order to pinpoint patterns of…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Delinquency Causes, Delinquent Behavior, Educational Environment
Feinstein, Leon – 2002
The cost benefits of lifelong learning in the United Kingdom were estimated, based on quantitative evidence. Between 1975-1996, 43 police force areas in England and Wales were studied to determine the effect of wages on crime. It was found that a 10 percent rise in the average pay of those on low pay reduces the overall area property crime rate by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Attention Deficit Disorders, Basic Skills