School Zone - A Problem Analysis of Student Offending and Victimization

"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"--

About the author

Pamela Wilcox is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Pennsylvania State University. She is the coauthor of Criminal Circumstance:  A Dynamic, Multicontextual Criminal Opportunity Theory and Communities and Crime: An Enduring American Challenge (Temple), and the co-editor of Challenging Criminological Theory: The Legacy of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser.  
Graham C. Ousey is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at William & Mary.  
Marie Skubak Tillyer is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Product details

• Authors: Graham C. Ousey, Marie Skubak Tillyer, Pamela Wilcox
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781439920367
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-2036-7
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories