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School violence in context : culture, neighborhood, family, school, and gender / Rami Benbenishty & Ron Avi Astor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benbenishty, Rami.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School violence--Social aspects--Israel--Case studies.
- School violence.
- School violence--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.
- School violence--Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Culture, neighborhood, family, school, and gender
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Draws on surveys comparing Jewish and Arab-Israeli students with students in the United States. Presents an empirically-based model for understanding school violence, highlighting both universal and culturally specific patterns of school violence"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 School Victimization Embedded in Context: A Heuristic Model; Chapter 2 Context and Methods; Chapter 3 Victimization Types; Chapter 4 Patterns of Victimization; Chapter 5 Sexual Harassment; Chapter 6 Weapons in School; Chapter 7 Student Victimization by Staff; Chapter 8 The Influence of Within-School Context on the Subjective Experience of Victimization: Safety, Violence as a Problem, and School Nonattendance Due to Fear; Chapter 9 Differences in Victimization Between Schools
- Chapter 10 Schools Embedded in Larger Contexts: The Matryoshka Doll Theory of School ViolenceChapter 11 One School, Multiple Perspectives on School Safety; Chapter 12 Revisiting Our Central Thesis: Schools to the Center of the Theoretical Model; Appendix 1 Research Instruments; Appendix 2 Details of the Structural Equation Analyses; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; W
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210).
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028908-2
- 1-60256-904-5
- 0-19-803588-8
- 1-280-50280-0
- OCLC:
- 252582759
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