Title Statements
- Full title :Schools and delinquency / Denise Gottfredson.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2000.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2000.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii,316p. : : ill. ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0521623243, 0521626293, 9780521623247, 9780521626293
- oclc:on1043064263
- LC Classification:HV9104.G63335
- Dewey Decimal:371.780973
Table of Contents
School's potential as a location for delinquency prevention -- School-related individual characteristics, attitudes, and experiences -- School effects -- Field studies of school-based prevention: an overview -- Changing school and classroom environments: the field studies -- Changing student personality, attitudes, and beliefs: the field studies -- Lost in translation: why doesn't school-based prevention work as well as it should? -- Where do we go from here?
1. School's potential as a location for delinquency prevention. Definition of delinquency -- Rates of delinquency -- Delinquency and being in school. 2. School-related individual characteristics, attitudes, and experiences. Correlates and antecedents of problem behavior -- Risk factors for problem behavior -- Personality structure and problem behavior -- Theories of crime causation. 3. School effects. Schools embedded in communities -- Studying contextual effects -- School effects research -- A note on externally determined factors. 4. Field studies of school-based prevention: an overview. Correlation vs causality -- Methods -- The studies. 5. Changing school and classroom environments: the field studies. Overview of studies…
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