| Violence
in American Schools: Book
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.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS:
1. Violence in American Schools:
An Overview
Delbert S. Elliott, Beatrix Hamburg, & Kirk R.
Williams
2. Youth
Violence is a Public Health Concern
Margaret A. Hamburg
3. Social
Contexts and Functions of Adolescent Violence
Jeffrey Fagan & Deanna L. Wilkinson
4. Juvenile
Aggression at Home and at School
Rolf Loeber & Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
5. The
Interdependence of School Violence with Neighborhood
and Family Conditions
John H. Laub & Janet L. Lauritsen
6. Preventing
Firearm Violence in and around Schools
James A. Mercy & Mark L. Rosenberg
7. Reducing
Violence through the Schools
J. David Hawkins, David P. Farrington, & Richard
F. Catalano
8. Evaluation
of School-Based Violence Prevention Programs
Faith Samples & Larry Aber
9. Safe
School Planning
Ronald D. Stephens
10. Exposure
to Urban Violence: Contamination of the School Environment
Raymond P. Lorion
11. Community
Policing, Schools, and Mental Health: the Challenge
of Collaboration
Steven Marans & Mark Schaefer
12. Tailoring
Established After-School Programs to Meet Urban Realities
Marcia R. Chaiken
13. An
Integrated Approach to Violence Prevention
Delbert S. Elliott, Kirk R. Williams, & Beatrix
Hamburg
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