Acts of Violence in the School Setting - National and International Responses

Acts of School Violence in the School Setting provides accurate and practical information on school violence at a national and international level to students studying crime and criminal justice. In addition, this book provides information on victimization as it is perpetrated through the internet and focused upon students.

List of contents

Chapter 1: School Violence: Definition and History
Chapter 2: Bullying and Intimidation
Chapter 3: Gangs and Cliques
Chapter 4: School Shootings (2000-2017) and Media Perceptions
Chapter 5: Mental Illness and School Violence
Chapter 6: Warning Factors, Pre-Incident Indicators of School Violence in K-12 Environments
Chapter 7: Victimization in Cyberspace
Chapter 8: Adult Offenders
Chapter 9: Violence in Higher Education
Chapter 10: Controlling the School Environment: Criminal Justice Responses

About the author

Kimberly A. McCabe, PhD, is the director of the Center for Community Development and Social Justice and professor of Criminology at Lynchburg College. McCabe has been an expert witness in law enforcement policies and procedures, child abuse, school violence, human trafficking and equity/parity/discrimination of employment in criminal justice and public safety agencies. She has also acted as a consultant to state and local agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom on design, implementation, and evaluation of criminal justice and public safety programs. She has authored many books and articles on child abuse, sex trafficking, and violence, including Protecting Your Children Online: What You Need to Know About Online Threats to Your Children (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), Sex Trafficking: A Global Perspective (Lexington Books, 2010), and The Trafficking of Persons: National and International Responses (2008).

Summary

School Violence: National and International Responses provides accurate and practical information on school violence at a national and international level to students studying crime and criminal justice, and addresses victimization of students as it is perpetrated through the internet.

Product details

• Authors: Toy D. Eagle, Brianna M. Egan, Kimberly A. McCabe
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781538125359
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-2535-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Assisted by: Brianna M. Egan, Toy D. Eagle
• Series: Theory and Practice in Criminal Justice; Theory and Practice in Crimina
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Gewalt, True Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, TRUE CRIME / General, Verbrechen / Kriminalfälle, Kriminalgeschichte - Kriminalgeschichten, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Criminology, International Response to School Violence, National Response to School Violence, perpetrators of school violence , School Violence, Victimology, victims of school violence, Violence in society, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Violence and abuse in society