School Violence: The Role of Parental and Community Involvement

This study utilizes the School Survey on Crime and Safety to identify variables that predict lower levels of violence from four domains: school security, school climate, parental involvement, and community involvement. Negative binomial regression was performed and the findings indicate that statistically significant results come from all four domains. When modifying the sample to include only schools that offer some form of parental involvement opportunities, schools with greater parental volunteering and participation in subject area events experience reduced levels of violence. Implications from this analysis include developing creative methods for greater parental input in school activities.     

School Violence Interventions in the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative

Abstract

The Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative was designed to encourage collaboration among school districts and local community service providers in the provision of behavioral health prevention and early intervention efforts. These efforts would address the physical safety of students as well as provide mental health, violence prevention, and social skills services. One local SS/HS Initiative brought together community and school collaborators in an ambitious agenda that included 14 distinct programs that addressed the needs of over 110,000 students in a large school district. The purpose of the current paper is to report the results of the evaluation of two of the programs designed to reduce violent and disruptive behavior in schools. The programs include a school-based anger management program and a community-based, alternative-to-suspension program. Working in cooperation with program staff and the school district, quasi-experimental designs were used to measure change over time for students. The two studies demonstrate the application of multiple methodologies in evaluating the effectiveness of prevention and early intervention efforts with the aim of providing data to support program improvement and sustainability.     

Linking Academics and Social Learning

Abstract

This article examines how school staff conceptualize their work with youths in an alternative school for weapon policy offenders after having undergone at least one year of a whole-school violence prevention program conducted by the Syracuse University Violence Prevention Project. The article examines the intent of school staff, their ideas, perspectives, and language about youths, violence, and schooling, and provides insights into the challenges and benefits of a whole-school approach to violence prevention. Their insights highlight what is needed for a violence prevention program to be successful. A major issue raised in the article is the importance of linking social learning and academics in violence prevention strategies, and of sustaining collaborative efforts that connect conflict resolution to acts of justice and support for youths' intellectual and emotional lives.     

Involving Students in School Violence Prevention

Abstract

Why are some students not willing to tell adults about a possibly violent situation in their school? In this study, 1,100 students in the Mid-South were surveyed on their knowledge of, and willingness to tell about, a possibly violent situation, their involvement in behaviors that are related to school violence, and their school's climate. About 1/3 of students knew of a potentially violent situation, and about 3/4 were willing to tell an adult. However, students who were involved in antecedents to violence and/or who had an unfavorable view of their school were much less likely to tell an adult about such situations. Efforts to prevent school violence should be designed with these factors in mind.     

Warning Signs of Problems in Schools

SUMMARY

One need not look hard to find evidence of concern related to the nature of student behavior in our schools. School violence, aggression, bullying, and harassment (e.g., racial or sexual) are often cited as challenging behaviors confronting educators and community leaders. Unfortunately, most schools address these concerns with aversive consequences delivered to individual perpetrators in a hope of reducing the future probability of undesired behavior. A growing body of literature identifies the need to explore the social context of behavior. The community, school, classroom, family, and peer group interact with student characteristics to help prevent, support the development of, and even exacerbate the display of both desired and undesired behavior. This article applies the logic of warning signs and functional behavioral assessment to schools as it explores the social context of the school and the classroom. The school-wide and classroom-based factors that have been associated with or found to support problem behaviors are discussed. Information is provided that will allow educators to assess their own schools and classrooms in an effort to promote a climate that will aid in the prevention of violence and aggression.     

推进县乡党校教学和管理体制改革的新思考

推进县乡党校教学和管理体制改革,是广西为了适应大规模培训干部和社会主义新农村建设需要在全国率先进行的一项改革。在新形势下,县级党校必须扩权抓实、拓展职能、强化领导责任、创新投入机制,以省级党校为依托加强“三库一基地”建设,进一步推进县乡党校教学和管理体制改革。     

An Experimental Evaluation of an Internet-Delivered Conflict Resolution Skills Curriculum in a Secondary School Setting

Abstract

Given the Internet's capacity to reach a wide audience and recent increases in violence-related episodes among our nation's youth, Internet-delivered, interactive conflict resolution programs may prove to be a powerful tool to prevent the growing phenomena of adolescent violence. In this study, we tested the efficacy of an Internet-delivered conflict resolution program. Specifically, the program emphasizes the development of conflict management skills, which may decrease future use of violent tactics to manage conflict. One hundred ninety-eight 9th grade students from a large urban area high school (64 = control; 134 = experimental) participated in the study. Results indicated that students exposed to the conflict management program reported an increase in knowledge of conflict management skills and negative attitudes toward violence.     

当代台湾中小学道德教育概览及启示

台湾中小学的道德教育,面对时代发展的潮流和教育改革的需要,产生了较大的变化,其德育课程改革的成功经验和不足之处,值得我们密切关注。台湾道德教育具有课程整合原则下的分散性、能力指标凸显下的渐进性、一纲多本政策下的灵活性、多元评价取向下的实践性等特点。在发挥隐性德育的作用、德育课程的开发、德育的回归生活、德育环境的培育等四个方面,其改革的经验和教训对祖国大陆道德教育改革具有重要的启示意义。     

大数据视域下我国暴恐犯罪侦查治理研究

暴恐犯罪作为当前影响社会公共安全最为突出的犯罪活动之一,需要我们从经济、宗教、民族、外来势力和科技发展等方面分析其特点和发展趋势,在此基础上充分运用大数据时代海量的数据资源、先进的数据技术、创新的数据思维,充分发挥群众工作和各部门各行业齐抓共管的优势,全方位、多层次地实现暴恐犯罪侦查治理的数据化、精准化、科学化、系统化。     

新时代中小学民族团结教育的三个理论维度

民族团结是各族人民的生命线。中小学民族团结教育既是教育学意义上的知识传授,更是政治学意义上的共同体构建。文章基于民族政治学的理论视角,提出新时代中小学民族团结教育的三个理论维度:一是国家与社会关系层面的国民教育;二是自我与他者关系层面的启蒙教育;三是传统与现代关系层面的素质教育。由此出发,培育爱国主义的情结,播种多元一体的种子,提高适应变革的能力,民族团结教育才会是成功的。     

Total and Marginal Cost Analysis for a High School Based Bystander Intervention

Costs of providing the Green Dot bystander-based intervention, shown to be effective in the reduction of sexual violence among Kentucky high school students, were estimated based on data from a large cluster-randomized clinical trial. Rape Crisis Center Educators were trained to provide Green Dot curriculum to students. Implementing Green Dot in schools (N = 13) randomized to the intervention, over five years, cost $1.6 M and included start-up ($58 K) and ongoing implementation ($1.55 M). Costs for adding a school ($25,510) were calculated based on the final year, where no start-up costs were incurred. Knowing the $25,510 cost estimate for adding Green Dot may be particularly useful for high school administrators or school boards when they were making economic decisions based on strong evidence of program effectiveness to reduce violence.     

Evaluation of a Theater-Based Youth Violence Prevention Program for Elementary School Children

Abstract

The present study evaluated the impact of Urban Improv (UI), a theater-based youth violence prevention (YVP) program developed for inner-city youth, on three behavioral and psychological outcome domains: aggressive behaviors, prosocial behaviors, and scholastic attention and engagement. This study compared outcomes for 77 elementary school students in classrooms designated to receive UI with those of 63 students from matched control classrooms. Findings revealed that students who received UI were superior to matched controls on all outcome domains. Findings support UI as a promising practice for YVP with urban elementary school students and suggest that greater attention should be focused on application of theater-based programs in YVP.     

An Examination of School Violence and Safety in South Florida Elementary Schools

Abstract

This study examined conditions of safety and violence in South Florida elementary schools. Although conditions were generally considered safe in these schools, approximately one-half of the elementary school students in the study did express some concerns about their safety, especially in school bathrooms and the area outside of their school building. Students who do not have positive relationships with other students at school and do not feel safe in their community generally feel less safe at school. In addition, students who are experiencing academic difficulty in school and do not expect to attain an education beyond high school feel less safe at school. In this study, those students who felt less safe also tended to be male and from lower SES back grounds.     

Role of School Psychologists in Violence Prevention and Intervention

Abstract

Kansas school psychologists were extremely accurate in their estimates of violence in their own schools and viewed school violence prevention as an important part of their job, regardless of the rates of violence in their districts. Most had at least some involvement in their own school's violence prevention program, although many reported that they had little or no training. Despite the fact that the majority of respondents work in districts with relatively low rates of violence, over half reported that fighting, bullying, and substance abuse, early warning signs of school violence, occur a lot or a fair amount in their districts.     

犯罪心理研究在犯罪防控体系中的价值

在治理犯罪问题上必须具有政治的高度和社会的广度。政治的高度意味着犯罪防控不仅仅是刑事司法领域之事,更重要的是社会政策和社会关系的调整;而社会的广度在于犯罪防控不单单是法律之事,还需要我们从社会学、心理学等角度展开相关研究,提出一个完整和谐的犯罪预防对策,从而建立整体和谐的犯罪防控体系。这当中,犯罪心理学的研究具有独特的价值。     

和谐社会构建下老年人犯罪预防

随着社会的发展,一些国家相继步入“老龄化”社会,中国也不例外。目前,我国60岁以上的老人有1．85亿人,占全国总人口的13．7％。并且我国的“老龄化”社会还具有“未富先老”的特征。长期以来．理论和实务界对青壮年犯罪给予了比较多的关注,但对老年人犯罪关注甚少。但现实中由老年人引发的犯罪却屡见不鲜,并有逐步增长的趋势。老年人作为一个特殊群体,其生存状态与目前提出的“诚信友爱、安定有序”和谐社会的建设休戚相关。因此,以老年人犯罪为切入点,探寻预防老年人犯罪的对策。有助于促进和谐社会的构建。     

析征地拆迁领域职务犯罪及预防

作者通过对征地拆迁领域的职务犯罪作案形式、特征,及征地拆迁安置中职务犯罪的原因进行了有理有据的分析,并对预防和惩治征地拆迁安置中的职务犯罪提出了极具操作性的对策。     

论民族传统体育在中小学的传承与发展——以湘西凤凰中小学开展“花鼓舞”为例

民族传统体育进入中小学,不仅有效地开发了学校体育课程资源,而且对于传承与弘扬民族传统体育和推动学校体育发展都有着积极的作用。以湘西凤凰民族传统体育项目花鼓舞进入中小学校园,实施校本体育课程教材化的现状,探讨花鼓舞校本化的开发途径与方法,为保护和传承文化遗产,促进民族传统体育的传承与发展提供参考。     

预防职务犯罪工作在区域经济一体化进程中的意义及方法探究

区域经济合作是东亚地区在实践中产生的一种适合于各有关经济体的共同发展方式。由于历史原因和政治、经济、社会、文化背景的差异,当一些地区以组建大范围的区域经济合作组织时,相邻的国家和地区间,建立“增长三角”或次区域经济合作是一种有效的合作途径。区域经济一体化过程中,预防职务犯罪工作面临着新的机遇,也面临着严峻的考验,如何把预防职务犯罪工作延伸到区域经济一体化进程中,更好地服从、服务于党的工作大局,是我们当前和今后一个时期务必做好的一项崭新工作。     

目前高校思想政治教育系统建构的重点

我国高校正面临着改革深化的现实 ,高校思想政治教育在改革深化的今天同样面临着种种的机遇、挑战与选择 ,透视高校思想政治教育的现状 ,打破已经不适应高校现状的旧的思想政治教育的范式 ,建立符合现实要求的思想政治教育系统 ,是保证思想政治教育生命线作用的唯一选择。