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School zone : a problem analysis of student offending and victimization / Pamela Wilcox, Graham C. Ousey, and Marie Skubak Tillyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilcox, Pamela, 1968- author.
- Ousey, Graham C., 1968- author.
- Tillyer, Marie Skubak, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Juvenile delinquency--United States.
- Juvenile delinquency.
- School violence--United States.
- School violence.
- Victims of juvenile crime.
- Victims of juvenile crime--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "This book combines offender, victim, and environmental perspectives to show how leading theories of crime are correctly and incorrectly applied to the school environment. It also evaluates data on a range of crimes at school ranging from theft to violence to verbal and physical assault and evaluates prevention strategies"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The school-crime connection: variation across people, places, and time
- Making sense of school crime: key perspectives
- Measuring school crime
- Student delinquency: the motivated offender
- Student victimization: the suitable, unguarded target
- Double trouble: the victim-offender overlap among students
- The school environment: a place for crime
- School zone: strategies in search of safety.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4399-2038-9
- OCLC:
- 1321790963
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