School Crime & Violence
School Crime & Violence

Author: James A. Rapp

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Published: 1992

Total Pages: 144

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This comprehensive guide for protecting school crime victims provides a concise, central source for quickly accessing and utilizing new legal authorities pertinent to the inalienable right to safe schools and tort principles relating to the rights of campus crime victims. Intended for school officials and trial lawyers, the book can also be used as a supplemental text in courses such as education law, torts, family law, workers' compensation, juvenile justice and constitutional law, among others. Material is organized into nine chapters: (1) "School Crime and Violence Victims"; (2) "Victims Respond: The Right to Safe Schools"; (3) "The Victims' Rights Movement"; (4) Victims' Rights Litigation"; (5) "Classifications of Victims' Rights Litigation"; (6) "Schools as Victims' Rights Litigation Defendants"; (7) "Claims for Failure to Protect Against or Prevent Non-student Crime or Violence"; (8) "Claims for Failure to Protect Against or Prevent Student Crime or Violence"; and (9) "Schools Respond: Providing Safe Schools." An alphabetical list of primary citations and an index are appended. (MLF)

Toward Better and Safer Schools
Toward Better and Safer Schools

Author: Amalia G. Cuervo

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Published: 1984

Total Pages: 258

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This handbook, structured to facilitate use by policy makers, practitioners, school board members and school staff, contains three parts. Part I presents practical information and an action plan for implementing school improvement and delinquency prevention measures. Chapters 1 and 2 focus on how delinquency affects the U.S. educational system, and on establishing a rationale for school-based delinquency prevention policies and practices. Chapters 3 through 5 present a six-step process to support local boards in selecting non-punitive approaches to discipline and to delinquency prevention, particularly early prevention programs. The process provides for choosing a focus for change, assessing a school's weaknesses and strengths, setting goals and objectives, developing an action plan, implementing chosen strategies, and gauging progress toward improvement. Part II is a compendium of more than 45 in-school improvement and delinquency prevention program models that are currently being implemented in public schools throughout the U.S. This part functions partly as a how-to manual for practitioners, and partly as a resource guide to a network of innovators and experts. Part III, a more extensive resource and reference guide, may be used to assist in planning and evaluating delinquency prevention programs; it includes and annotated list of recommended books, articles, readings, theme-related periodicals and congressional hearings, selected media aids, technical assistance sources, databases and clearinghouses, and development resources. An appendix contains examples of behavioral contracts between students, parents, and schools. (Author/KH)

Security and Crime Prevention Strategies in California Public Schools
Security and Crime Prevention Strategies in California Public Schools

Author: Marcus Nieto

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Published: 1999

Total Pages: 64

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A report by the California Research Bureau, which conducted a survey of school security policies and practices of a representative sample of California school districts. Chapters: violence in American schools; public opinion about the causes of youth violence; contemporary approaches to school safety; selected school drug and crime prevention funding programs; brief history of school violence prevention efforts in California; safe school plan development in California school districts; California school security resources; school violence prevention programs; legislative and administrative options; school safety and security survey. 23 charts and tables.