Beginning articles address alienation from society, community, and social institutions; changed roles, values, and morality in families and schools; and media sensationalization of gang culture and its impact on fear. Subsequent articles cover corporate and commercial exploitation of gang culture, drugs in schools, poverty and inequality among low-income youth, school discipline and school security and their impact on fear, and school organization and climate. Solutions to the problem of school violence are recommended that involve multiple-level responses. Contributors to the volume believe that an effective strategy against school violence must go beyond a simplistic focus on students to look at the interconnections between violence and the social context in which it occurs. References, notes, tables, and figures