NCJ Number
101885
Editor(s)
G Nicholson,
R D Stephens,
G Bond,
N Worcester,
D Mahoney
Date Published
1985
Length
155 pages
Annotation
Several articles discuss American schools from historical and legal perspectives, aspects of school crime, mechanisms for addressing school crime, and the legal profession's role in education.
Abstract
A sociological study of the interrelationships among offenders, victims, and fearful students in schools is presented, along with a review of studies on how crime and fear of crime in schools reflects crime in the surrounding community. Also considered is the authority courts have granted and withheld from school officials in dealing with crime and misbehavior on school property. Court decisions pertaining to school officials' handling of disciplined students' due process rights are reviewed, followed by a look at possible mechanisms for reducing school crime. These mechanisms include restitution for damages to public school property, statutes that make parents liable for their children's torts, and a California constitutional amendment that may be used to require schools to develop formal programs for addressing school crime. The final group of articles examines the practical aspects of educational law as a specialty area of legal practice. For individual articles, see NCJ 101886-89. Chapter notes.