TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - A Case Study of the Types and Prevalence of Violence at Two Middle Schools and One High School in the Camden City Public School System
JO  - Dissertation abstracts international
A1  - Andrews, Curtis Albert
SP  - 823A
EP  - 823A
VL  - 61
IS  - 03
N2  - AUTHOR'S ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to determine the types and prevalence of violence in three high schools in the Camden City Public School District, as perceived by students, staff, and a Gang Abatement Task Force. This study reviewed archival data found in school incident reports and used limited portions of the National Crime Victimization Survey (Office of Juvenile Justice, 1997), including the following sub tests: Nonfatal Student Victimization, the School Crime Supplements, the National Household Education Survey, and Monitoring the Future. The Principal/School Disciplinary Survey was also used to determine principals' perceptions of actual reported incidents of school violence. The views of a random sample of students, faculty, and administrators from three purposefully selected schools provided the majority of the data. Of the 159 student respondents, 57% or more reported that they had not experienced violence in their high school within the previous 6 or 12 months. Approximately 30% or more indicated that they had experienced some aspect of theft, personal attack, sexual assault, or bullying behavior one or more times during the previous 6 or 12 months. Sixty-one percent of the student respondents reported using no alcohol between September 1998 and December 1999, while 35% reported consuming alcohol once during that time period. Marijuana intake was reported as "not at all" by 78% of the students and as "one time" by 20%. Of 55 school faculty and administrators who reported on the types and prevalence of violence in their schools, more than 70% reported the presence of graffiti, the availability of drugs, and an increase in the presence of weapons. Only 48% reported an increase in physical confrontation. When responding to the same survey questions, more than 70% of the members of the Gang Abatement Task Force reported the presence of graffiti, the availability of drugs, an increase in weapons, and an increase in physical confrontations. The most serious problems, identified by the three participating principals, were student tardiness and absenteeism. It was recommended that the district organize and maintain a community-based violence prevention program, including a violence prevention and conflict resolution program, and develop a district-wide system for reporting and tracking incidences of student violence. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Curtis Albert Andrews; University Microfilms International)  Delaware School Violence Child Violence Juvenile Violence Junior High School Student Senior High School Student Late Childhood Late Adolescence Early Adolescence Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Violence Incidence and Prevalence Firearms in School Weapons in School Student Violence Student Substance Use Drug Use Incidence and Prevalence Substance Use Incidence and Prevalence Juvenile Substance Use Child Substance Use Child Victim Child Crime Child Bully Juvenile Crime Juvenile Bully Juvenile Victim Victimization Incidence and Prevalence Bullying Incidence and Prevalence School Crime 03-01<p />
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