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Environmental Design, 1972
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Fire Protection, Innovation, Safety Equipment

Cardellichio, Thomas – NASSP Bulletin, 1992
In many communities, Halloween has become an excuse for young people to commit acts of violence and vandalism. One New York middle-school principal sent a post-Halloween letter to parents detailing the weaponry confiscated by police and terming the holiday a pointless social exercise. The letter helped parents reassert their limit-setting…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Letters (Correspondence), Parent Responsibility, Principals

Stout, Beth – Green Teacher, 2000
Discusses vandalism as a major concern in schoolyards and believes that it can be kept at a minimum during outdoor activities. Presents statistical information on arrests in cases of vandalism. Describes four key strategies for discouraging vandalism that the National Crime Prevention Council focuses on, and discusses the psychology of criminals.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Habitats, Outdoor Education
Beaudin, James A.; Sells, Jeffrey A. – American School & University, 2000
Examines ways of adequately providing the security of middle schools while creating an environment in which students and staff feel at home. Areas covered include architectural strategies to encourage better communication, controlling vandalism, and preventing unauthorized people from entering the building. (GR)
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Guidelines, Middle Schools, School Security
Stout, Beth – Clearing, 1999
Discusses vandalism to schoolyard habitat site areas. Finds that instances of vandalism are few and the threat of vandalism can be kept to a minimum while students, teachers, and community members enjoy a hands-on, outdoor learning opportunity. (Author/CCM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Habitats, Outdoor Education
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
Nation's Schools and Colleges, 1974
Short descriptive notes discuss new developments in curriculum, such as student use of television cameras to record vandalism damage; and development of new games in which the element of winning or losing is either eliminated or sharply deemphasized. (JF)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Childrens Games, Curriculum, Educational Games
Gross, John G., Ed. – 1975
The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to establish if members of the university community (students, faculty, and staff) have been victims of selected crimes or incidents while on the University of Missouri--Columbia campus that were not reported to the police; (2) to establish a range of reasons why these incidents were not reported to the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Crime, Faculty, Higher Education
Hoppe, Ronald A.; Simmel, Edward C. – Coll Res Libr, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Books, College Libraries, Experiments
Burns Security Inst., Briarcliff Manor, NY. – 1973
As educational and cultural centers, public libraries are in the mainstream of American life. Persistent library crime, such as pilferage, theft and vandalism, represents much more than financial loss. It deprives the public of access to irreplaceable books, rare manuscripts and other reference materials. Equally important, it inflicts hardships…
Descriptors: Books, Libraries, Library Materials, Library Surveys

Campbell, Frederick L. – Journal of Leisure Research, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Camping, Data Collection, Observation
Rittner-Heir, Robbin – School Planning & Management, 2003
Vandalism is the main problem in maintaining school washrooms. Ways to help schools meet this challenge include designing washrooms with hidden moving parts to cut down on vandalism and making toilet partitions of solid polyethylene plastic which is virtually indestructible, hard to deface, and easy to clean. The article suggests it is worth…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Maintenance, School Buildings

Takahashi, Susumu; Inoue, Wataru – Thresholds in Education, 1995
Violence is a serious problem in Japanese schools, despite the absence of guns. There are three forms: violence among students, violence against teachers, and vandalism. Violence among junior-high students is widespread. Schoolwide strategies to reinforce positive social norms, organize special teams of teachers, and strengthen extracurricular…
Descriptors: Family Influence, Intervention, Parent School Relationship, School Safety
DiGeronimo, Joseph – School Administrator, 1991
A California school superintendent presents clever savings tips, including boosting average daily attendance, sparing new hires, bird dogging insurance interest, disposing of surplus school property, recruiting students attending nonpublic schools, creating more classroom space, contracting for part-time help, reducing vandalism, marketing staff…
Descriptors: Average Daily Attendance, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1991
Twenty-two states now specifically outlaw such activities as entering a research laboratory without permission, releasing animals, disrupting experiments, and removing documents and photographs related to research. Several expand the definition of criminal activity to include videotaping or photographing facility interiors. Penalties vary by…
Descriptors: Crime, Higher Education, Laboratories, Laboratory Animals