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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795895103321

Autore

Wilcox Pamela <1968->

Titolo

School zone : a problem analysis of student offending and victimization / / Pamela Wilcox, Graham C. Ousey, and Marie Skubak Tillyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Temple University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-4399-2038-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

362.8808837

Soggetti

Juvenile delinquency - United States

School violence - United States

Victims of juvenile crime

Victims of juvenile crime - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--