School Zone
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School Zone

A Problem Analysis of Student Offending and Victimization

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

School Zone

A Problem Analysis of Student Offending and Victimization

About this book

Schools should be safe—but they are not always safe for everybody. Authors Pamela Wilcox, Graham Ousey, and Marie Skubak Tillyer studied crime among students located across diverse middle- and high-school settings to investigate why some students engage in delinquency—but others do not—and why some students are more prone to victimization. School Zone focuses on the three key interactional elements—context, victims, and offenders—to understand and explain the impact of common crimes such as theft, weapon carrying, drug possession and the verbal, physical, and sexual harassment of classmates. 

The authors also consider how individual students and schools respond to crime and threats. They analyze the variables that schools can control in planning and practice that explain why some schools have higher crime rates. School Zone uses empirical studies to provide a comprehensive understanding of the patterns and causes of variation in individual- and aggregate-level school-based offending and victimization experiences while also addressing the adequacy of wide-ranging criminological explanations and crime prevention policies. 

In their conclusion, the authors assess the extent to which currently popular strategies of school crime prevention align with what they have discovered through their problem-analysis framework and scientific understandings of student offending and victimization.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. The School-Crime Connection: Variation across People, Places, and Time
  4. 2. Making Sense of School Crime: Key Perspectives
  5. 3. Measuring School Crime
  6. 4. Student Delinquency: The Motivated Offender
  7. 5. Student Victimization: The Suitable, Unguarded Target
  8. 6. Double Trouble: The Victim-Offender Overlap among Students
  9. 7. The School Environment: A Place for Crime
  10. 8. School Zone: Strategies in Search of Safety
  11. References
  12. Index