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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / School ... Read more

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In the last decade, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most "family friendly" American towns and suburbs. These tragedies appear to be the spontaneous acts of disconnected teens, but this important book argues that the roots of violence are deeply entwined in the communities themselves. Rampage challenges the "loner theory" of school violence and shows why so many adults and students miss the warning signs that could prevent it. ... Read more

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fast and quick service
I ordered the book on a Friday, by the middle of the coming week I started reading it. You can't ask for more.

A good look at the other side
Very intelligent book, gives a detailed insight into the shooters minds and explains why and how to prevent. A must read for anyone with children.

Rampage:The Social Roots of School Shooting
This book, gives a new perspective on school shootings.The author creates a new theory behind the roots of these happenings.It gives the background, accounts of students, faculty, community officials, and community members perspectives to these shootings as well.Overall, it helps the reader to put school shootings into perspective.

This book stands alone...
Since 2004, there have been over 1,000 books written on bullying and interventions---most prompted by the rash of school shootings in the late 1990's.Newman's book stands alone for it's clairty and genuine contribution to understanding this complex issue.Having read many texts on this topic, this is by far the one I would recommend to my colleagues.

A useful, if flawed, read
There is much to recommend this book.It provides a well-researched explanation for the ultimate causes of rampage school shootings.The book does an excellent job of refuting the myth that these tragedies have a simplistic explanation.The authors make a very compelling case that Columbine-style school shootings happen only when a tragic combination of necessary-but-not-sufficient factors are present.

Unfortunately, the book falters when it comes to providing practical strategies for the prevention of rampage school shootings.For example, the authors repeatedly acknowledge bullying and teasing as major causative factors that push some youths toward committing these tragic attacks.As the authors note, most of the shooters were bullied severely -- some almost to the point of torture.

Given that, one would have expected the book to devote a good amount of space to prevention of bullying in schools. Unfortunately, the book devotes less than two pages devoted to a discussion of ways to prevent bullying and other forms of harassment in schools.Teenage bullies, of course, are not stupid -- nearly all bullying takes place out of the view of teachers and school administrators.Much research has shown that teachers and administrators tend to dramatically underestimate the size of this problem, simply because they see only a small percentage of the harassment that actually occurs. The book neglects this point almost entirely, which is very unfortunate because there are a number of strategies that have been shown to be effective and that are fairly easy for school systems to implement.

Similarly, the book devotes much space to the widespread availability of guns as a factor, yet offers precious little in the way of suggestions for what to do to prevent desperately disturbed teenagers from gaining access to them.

Given that, I would strongly recommend the book for understanding the causes of these tragedies.Just don't expect much in the way of practical suggestions for prevention.
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Schools and Delinquencyprovides a comprehensive review and critique of the current research on the causes of delinquency, substance use, drop-out, and truancy, and the role of the school in preventing these behavior patterns. Examining school-based prevention programs and practices for grades K-12, the author identifies a broad array of effective and ineffective strategies.In the larger context of the community, she analyzes the special challenges to effective prevention programming that arise in disorganized settings, identifying ways to overcome these obstacles and make the most troubled schools safer and more productive environments. ... Read more

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Formerly a Nelson Hall title, this text is a comprehensive introduction to the study of criminology, excluding additional chapters on the criminal justice system (police, courts, and corrections) as can be found in some texts. INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY avoids an overly legal and crime control orientation. It concentrates on the vital core of criminological theory--theory, method, and criminal behavior. Hagan investigates all forms of criminal activity, such as occupational crime, political crime, and environmental crime. He explains the methods of operation, the effects on society, and how various theories account for criminal behavior. ... Read more

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When, in the turmoil of my daily occupation, I received an invitation, several months ago, from several hundred students of this famous university, to give them a brief summary, in short special lectures, of the principal and fundamental conclusions of criminal sociology, I gladly accepted, because this invitation fell in with two ideals of mine. These two ideals are stirring my heart and are the secret of my life. In the first place, this invitation chimed with the ideal of my personal life, namely, to diffuse and propagate among my brothers the scientific ideas, which my brain has accumulated, not through any merit of mine, but thanks to the lucky prize inherited from my mother in the lottery of life. And the second ideal which this invitation called up before my mind's vision was this: The ideal of young people of Italy, united in morals and intellectual pursuits, feeling in their social lives the glow of a great aim. It would matter little whether this aim would agree with my own ideas or be opposed to them, so long as it should be an ideal which would lift the aspirations of the young people out of the fatal grasp of egoistic interests. Of course, we positivists know very well, that the material requirements of life shape and determine also the moral and intellectual aims of human consciousness. But positive science declares the following to be the indispensable requirement for the regeneration of human ideals: Without an ideal, neither an individual nor a collectivity can live, without it humanity is dead or dying. For it is the fire of an ideal which renders the life of each one of us possible, useful and fertile. And only by its help can each one of us, in the more or less short course of his or her existence, leave behind traces for the benefit of fellow-beings. The invitation extended to me proves that the students of Naples believe in the inspiring existence of such an ideal of science, and are anxious to learn more about ideas, with which the entire world of the present day is occupied, and whose life-giving breath enters even through the windows of the dry courtrooms, when their doors are closed against it. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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After a brief examination of the creation of the public school system resting on historical and philosophical notions of good order and discipline, this study examines the extent and patterns of juvenile crime, and posits a theoretical model of school crime based on family, home economics and demography, in association with minority status and educational elements, exacerbated by drugs, gangs and weapons. For 90 consecutive days in 1994, a sample of 50 public school districts in Texas participated in a school crime reporting experiment. Scrupulous attention was paid to the recording of criminal incidents and their associated offences in the sample districts. This afforded a rare opportunity to analyze empirical data relating to actual criminal offences on public school campuses. This study gives detailed descriptions of numbers of incidents, offences, age and sex of offenders, place of offence, involvement of drugs, gangs and weapons. ... Read more

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This book is concerned with an investigation of severe school attendance problems. The purpose of this study is to integrate and synthesize related research carried out over the last ten years on this important social problem. The research describes the first use of randomly controlled trials by the courts in Great Britain and the psychiatric assessment of a non-clinical population of poor attenders. The approach provides new and interesting data and a good methodological example of the use of randomized experiments by the courts. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Social Justice, published by Crime and Social Justice Associates on March 22, 2001. The length of the article is 6256 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Introducing the New School of Convict Criminology.
Author: Stephen C. Richards
Publication: Social Justice (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: Crime and Social Justice Associates
Volume: 28Issue: 1Page: 177

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Between 1915 and the early 1940s, the Chicago school brought to its research on urbanism innovative, vigorous, and eclectic methods of analysis. Members of the Chicago school used a dazzling array of methodological techniques in their research and, above all, Chicago sociologists took great pride in conducting research in "the open" or in "the field" (on the streets, in opium dens, in brothels, and in parks), rather than in laboratories, faculty offices, or libraries.
This collection brings together classic texts that demonstrate and explore work at the Chicago school of criminology in the 1920s and 1940s. A new introduction by the editor explains the significance of the works selected for the collection.

Sociological research in the United States was dominated by various academic disciplines at the University of Chicago, particularly those of political science and sociology. To journalists, social reformers, and sociologists, the ever-changing and fascinating patterns of daily life in Chicago were a barometer of the human condition itself. In this stimulating atmosphere, many creative scholars combined their talents and applied their energies to a sociological analysis of the harsh consequences of "urbanism", and especially to those problems generated by living in the inner city. ... Read more

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The color of clothing, the width of shoe laces, a pierced ear, certain brands of sneakers, the braiding of hair and many other features have long been seen as indicators of gang involvement. But it’s not just what is worn, it’s how: a hat tilted to the left or right, creases in pants, an ironed shirt not tucked in, baggy pants. For those who live in inner cities with a heavy gang presence, such highly stylized rules are not simply about fashion, but markers of "who you claim," that is, who one affiliates with, and how one wishes to be seen.

In this carefully researched ethnographic account, Robert Garot provides rich descriptions and compelling stories to demonstrate that gang identity is a carefully coordinated performance with many nuanced rules of style and presentation, and that gangs, like any other group or institution, must be constantly performed into being. Garot spent four years in and around one inner city alternative school in Southern California, conducting interviews and hanging out with students, teachers, and administrators. He shows that these young people are not simply scary thugs who always have been and always will be violent criminals, but that they constantly modulate ways of talking, walking, dressing, writing graffiti, wearing make-up, and hiding or revealing tattoos as ways to play with markers of identity. They obscure, reveal, and provide contradictory signals on a continuum, moving into, through, and out of gang affiliations as they mature, drop out, or graduate. Who You Claim provides a rare look into young people’s understandings of the meanings and contexts in which the magic of such identity work is made manifest.

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Not Reality!
This book is written by a professor and that is exactly what you get, a bunch of academic intellectual "hogwash".This so-called expert went into his project with a bias and that was all he did the entire book was prove his own bias on Gangs.I got this book hoping it could help with "stopping" or "preventing" gangs in school because I work as a school resource police officer; however, this book is nothing but a bash fest on any gang enforcement or gang prevention.I felt as though he was almost "glorifying" gangs.There are no comments from any school security officers, police officers, gang detectives, probation officers, or corrections officers anywhere in this book!I think "the professor" needs to get out of the classroom, ride with a law enforcement gang unit, and see that "colors" get you killed in the real world!Being a so-called "wanna be" will also get you killed in the real world!It is easy to say such happy go lucky things about gangs when you don't have to clean up their dead bodies or tell their mother's they were killed because they CAME TO SCHOOL WEARING THE WRONG COLOR!!
Save your money and pass on this book.

What is a gang?
A group of violent thugs? A social club? Troubled, homeless losers who are "hard to love"?

And what is gang membership? Is it a fixed identity, or something fluid, which urban youngsters claim or don't claim according to external circumstances and the flow of their lives?

How can we explain why, even in the roughest neighborhoods, at most 10% of youths belong to street gangs? Who are the other nine out of ten, and how do they negotiate survival without affiliation?

Robert Garot, now an assistant sociology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, is ideally situated to take a stab at these difficult questions. For four years while he was in college, he volunteered off and on at an inner-city continuation school in Southern California. Conducting ethnographic interviews with 46 students, he explored how the youths themselves chose to position themselves in relation to the local gangs, and to violence and street life more generally.

In the course of research, he came to believe that superficial anti-gang pogroms, in which schools ban certain colors and styles, do nothing to improve safety or reduce the influence of gangs. Indeed, they may paradoxically increase gangs' allure as a means of resistance against a "counterfeit," alienating educational bureaucracy intent on stifling their creativity and hope.

Garot sets himself apart from the pathologizing lens through which most criminology researchers -- due in part to funding structures that favor the status quo -- approach gangs. Instead, he views gangs as one of many ways for youths to "stylistically remake the world," a tool that some youths in impoverished environments bend to their needs and then discard when no longer useful. This nuanced lens would give more credibility to anti-gang violence campaigns, by acknowledging the mixed, sometimes-positive role gangs can play in communities where official neglect has created a vacuum.

Although Garot backs into his material, getting off to a slow start by reciting dry academic theory, he hits his stride when presenting his observations and case studies. Particularly interesting are his first-hand observations, rare in academic discourse, of fights, and his analyses of the complexities surrounding such street rituals as "hitting up" (demanding to know someone's affiliation) and "ranking out" (claiming no gang), which young people in this community had to master in order to survive.

The essential message: Beware of reifying gangs as fixed and essential components of identity, when even their members do not see them as such. As urban centers create increasingly fluid and multi-faceted possibilities for identity -- witness cuisines such as Polish-Brazilian and Mexican-Korean -- identity is becoming much more malleable and flexible than a narrow, unidimensional, and pejorative focus would lead us to believe.
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Learn more effective methods of studying school violence!

School violence and safety research will move forward and make unique scientific contributions only if it develops a core literature that critically examines its measurements, methods, and data analysis techniques. Issues in School Violence Research is the first book to expose the limitations of previous research, to critically examine methodological and measurement practices, and to provide guidelines to enhance future school violence research. Early literature focused on school violence as a social problem, not as an integrated area of legitimate scientific research. It is time to move beyond the social problem era of school violence to begin critically assessing its common research practices.

Issues in School Violence Research addresses significant measurement and methodological issues in school violence research. The contributors have been conducting school research for more than fifteen years. Until recently, there has been such a rush to gather information about school violence that the methods used have hardly been questioned. The editors of this book are some of the first to raise questions about how the field conducts its research, especially with regard to self-reports among students. To enhance your understanding of the practices used—past and proposed, numerous tables are included.

In Issues in School Violence Research, you’ll find information about:

school level warning signs of safety problems
using office referral records in school violence research
identification of bullies and victims
data quality issues in student risk behavior surveys
extreme response bias patterns for the youth risk behavior surveys
the structure of student perceptions of school safety
weapon possession
and much more!

Issues in School Violence Research is an important resource for anyone, from professors to policymakers, involved or interested in the field of school violence research. It is also appropriate as a textbook for research methodology courses. It is only through objective analysis that school violence research can develop new insights, and the topics addressed in this book will stimulate new and better inquiry into the climate within which school violence occurs. ... Read more

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Why would a student bring a weapon to school and without any explicable reason open fire on fellow students and teachers? Are school shooters angry? Are they crazy? Is their motive revenge? Hatred for the victims? A hunger for attention? The origins of human violence are complex. Thinkers, historians, and scientists have explored the issue for centuries, but answers remain elusive. The roots of a violent act are multiple, intricate, and intertwined. The mix of factors varies according to the individual and the circumstances. Understanding violence after it has occurred is difficult enough. Trying to assess a threat and keep it from being carried out is even more of a challenge. This book presents a systematic procedure for threat assessment and intervention. ... Read more

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"Many of our country's children face daily a threat to their personal safety and well-being. As school boards, law enforcement officials, and policymakers continue to look for ways to stop youth violence in urban and suburban schools, not enough attention is paid to eradicating the socioeconomic and cultural conditions that give rise to these acts. In this timely and thought-provoking collection, seasoned educators and cultural theorists emphasize this connection between youth violence and the realities faced by many children--poverty, racism, unequal opportunity, and the media's glorification of violence." ... Read more

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Student review
I agree that this is a very timely and important book and it raises a lot of issues that other books on this topic ignore. But it is not always easy to read.I was assigned this book for an undergraduate college course and I did find a couple of the chapters, especially "Rated CV for Cool Violence" and "Masculinity Matters" and the beginning part of "The Psychology of Violence" a bit difficult to read because they were more technical than some ofthe others. Having a professor to help us understand it and discuss it in class was helpful, as were many of the explanatory definitions and footnotes. Some of what you learn in this book is also very upsetting, especially Spina's comparisons of statistical reports and the horrors described by Freire and Macedo, but if you are upset by it, the book has started to do what the authors set out to do. If you are interested in teaching or in learning about school violence, you should read several books with different viewpoints on the topic but this should definitely be one of them. It is, for the most part, a "student-friendly" book and one of two I had to read last semester that I am not likely to re-sell to the bookstore any time soon.

A POWERFUL, PROVOCATIVE, BOOK YOU MUST READ!
Spina et.al. have written an important, comprehensive and highly readable book that fearlessly and intelligently addresses the issues and mechanisms underlying and contributing to local and global violence.

The authors of the ten chapters here take us on an eye-opening journey that raises serious questions about present violence prevention and intervention practices in schools. They argue that current efforts are ineffective because they treat the symptoms, not the causes, of violence. Contributors range from students (in Jennifer Obidah's chapter and Spina's introduction) and a former gang-member-turned-educator (Charles Hernandez) to those who work in the trenches as teachers, researchers, and social workers (Donna Gaines, Jessie Klein, Lynn Chancer, Zeus Leonardo, Ricky Lee Allen, and the editor) to world renowned scholars and educators (e.g. Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo, Stanley Aronowitz, Peter McLaren, Henry Giroux).Stephanie Urso Spina and the contributors to "Smoke and Mirrors" give us a range of voices, experiences, and insights into the relationship between local and global violence, cultural categorization, and national ideology and policy. "Smoke and Mirrors" is a sophisticated yet accessible collection of essays that puts violence in a social and cultural context and untangles the web of political deciept and mismanagement that feed the true roots of violence.

This book should be read by parents, educators, social workers, criminal justice workers, and anyone (which is everyone) affected by or concerned about violence. ... Read more

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Your school must be prepared to face problems that range from name calling and bullying to extortion, rape, and homicide. Decrease the chances of tragedy and learn how to respond most effectively!

This essential handbook explores the causes of school violence, presents state-of-the-art information on preventing school violence, and arms you with practical interventions to use when violent incidents occur. You’ll also learn about the best Internet sites on school violence issues. This book—prepared by the editor of the Journal of School Violence—can help you decrease the chances of tragedy. It will also show you how to respond effectively when violence does occur.

Part I: Causes of School Violence focuses on the ways that connectedness and identification with academics influence school violence. This section presents a framework for creating developmental interventions as well as a chapter examining the concept of "bonding to school," with two interesting scenarios to consider.

Part II: Prevention of School Violence examines the effectiveness of interventions in use today and brings you important information on threat assessment, peer mediation, and weapons reduction. You’ll also find an insightful chapter on the value of developing empathy and good communication with youth who are gang members.

Part III: Interventions in Cases of School Violence provides you with effective strategies to address the consequences of crisis events and takes an incisive look at crisis events themselves, what they are, how they progress, and what you may encounter in their aftermath. In addition, you get an invaluable inside look at crisis intervention and support services in the aftermath of the 2001 Santana High School shootings in San Diego, California.

With your purchase of this essential handbook, you’ll also be kept up to date by the author’s new Internet forum—a space where scholars and practitioners from around the world come together to create new strategies for school violence prevention and intervention and develop new online and print publications that address school violence.

"When I was like 11, I was hanging out. I used to go to a middle school. It was for bad people, only bad people go there. It's a school just for bad people that had gotten kicked out of school. And I had got kicked out of my school cause they found me with a gun."

The Handbook of School Violence brings together many voices—those of violent youngsters and the helpers who provide the care they need—those of students who feel no connection with their families or with their work at school—those of the professionals who strive to prevent these students from acting on their feelings of alienation in violent ways—and those of scholars who create theory and research, laying the foundation for prevention and intervention. Add this book to your collection, and you’ll benefit from the contributions of this rich chorus of voices. And through the Internet forum, the chorus can add a new voice—yours. ... Read more

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This new CORE edition of Siegel's best-selling CRIMINOLOGY, Seventh Edition and CRIMINOLOGY: THEORIES, PATTERNS, AND TYPOLOGIES, Seventh Edition takes a concise look at criminology and criminological theory. Not just the same book, this version is a complete rewrite, making this a shorter, less expensive alternative to other criminology texts on the market. The material has been carefully structured to cover relevant information in a manageable format and in a presentation that is interesting and contemporary. Siegel continues to incorporate unbiased, high-interest examples on many diverse criminology issues that characterize its interdisciplinary nature. ... Read more

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Criminology
this is a great book that takes you through many theories, statistics, stories and the affect of criminal behavior in the present as well as the past. a must have if you are interested in the study of sociology, criminology or both. ... Read more

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Radical criminology's distinctive, non-mainstream perspectives on environmental crime and justice issues, and on state crime and terrorism, are fully explored in completely new chapters of the "Primer in Radical Criminology" (4th edition). Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, this college-level textbook has been much praised for insightfully framing the problem of crime within the contexts of social class, race, gender, culture and history.

The wide-ranging new chapter on "The Environment, Crime and Justice" addresses such topics as: environmental pollution as a crime; environmental justice research; global warming and the end of oil; and the potential of a "green" criminology. The provocative new chapter on "State Crime and Terrorism" offers analyses of: political crime versus state crime; the absence of state crime in orthodox criminology; war as state crime; state and anti-state terrorism; and genocide, among other topics.

In its eleven other extensively updated chapters, the "Primer" presents radical/critical perspectives on: criminological theory; the causes of crime; conceptions of state and law; policing; courts; punishment and corrections; and many other subjects. ... Read more