Violence in American schools : a new perspective /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Description:	x, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	School violence -- United States. School violence -- United States -- Prevention. School violence. School violence -- Prevention. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3449508

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Other authors / contributors:	Elliott, Delbert S. Hamburg, Beatrix A. Williams, Kirk R.
ISBN:	0521594502 9780521594509 0521644186 9780521644181
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	Using a variety of perspectives including public health, criminology, ecology, and developmental psychology, this text reviews the latest research on the causes of youth violence in the nation's schools and communities. In this volume, experts from a range of disciplines use a variety of perspectives, notably those of public health, criminology, ecology, and developmental psychology, to review the latest research on the causes of youth violence in the nation's schools and communities and on school-based interventions that have prevented or reduced it. They describe and evaluate strategies for the prevention and treatment of violence that go beyond punishment and incarceration. The volume offers a new strategy for the problem of youth violence, arguing that the most effective interventions use a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach and take into account differences in stages of individual development and involvement in overlapping social contexts, families, peer groups, schools and neighborhoods. This book can be used profitably by school teachers and administrators, scholars, policy makers, and those who work with young people at risk, as well as by the general reader who is concerned with current social problems.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Introduction
1. Violence in American schools: an overview
Part II. Understanding Child and Youth Violence
2. Youth violence is a public health concern
3. Social contexts and functions of adolescent virtue
4. Juvenile aggression at home and at school
5. The interdependence of school violence with neighborhood and family conditions
Part III. School Based Interventions
6. Preventing firearm violence in and around schools
7. Reducing violence through the schools
8. Evaluations of school-based violence prevention programs Faith Samples
9. Safe school planning
Part IV. Community-Based Interventions
10. Exposure to urban violence: contamination of the school environment
11. Community policing, schools, and mental health: the challenge of collaboration
12. Tailoring established after-school programs to meet urban realities Marcia R. Chaiken
Part V. Conclusions
13. An integrated approach to violence prevention

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