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Juvenile Delinquency and Vandalism in the School

NCJ Number
75380
Journal
Journal of Research and Development in Education Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Dated: (Winter 1978) Pages: complete issue
Editor(s)
R Wells
Date Published
1978
Length
98 pages
Annotation
This volume examines the causes and scope of school vandalism, impacts on teachers, and delinquency classification methods, and identifies possible solutions.
Abstract
The scope of the school vandalism problem is reviewed by the senator who headed a Congressional investigation on the subject. The next three chapters focus on methods for predicting and classifying delinquent and predelinquent behavior in youth and for classifying delinquent behavior according to individual, academic, and school characteristics. Recommendations for planning school facilities which minimize opportunities for vandalism are presented, based on a survey of school security directors. Factors which cause higher incidences of vandalism are identified and discussed. These causes range from student, parental, and educator perceptions of the school to the administrative style of educational leaders. A chapter on the impact of school violence on the classroom teacher reviews the incidence of attacks on educators and reports recommendations from a teacher's union for minimizing this form of school crime. Limitations on school authority and court-determined student rights are considered in another chapter. The final section of this publication examines the community school concept and its relationship to reductions in school vandalism rates and improvements in student attitudes. References are included after each chapter. Some chapters include tabular data.