Bullying
Repeated, negative acts committed by one or more children against another, which may be physical or verbal.
What is Bullying?
High schools with a completion rate of 40 percent or less
What are the dropout factories?
According to the text, schools with fewer behavioral problems in the student body are characterized by
Who are high-achieving students?
Policies that mandate specific consequences or punishments for delinquent acts and do not allow anyone to avoid these consequences
What are zero-tolerance policies?
Making a focus of crime or delinquency as difficult as possible for potential offenders to access
What is target hardening?
These youths experience more physical and psychological problems.
Who are chronic victims?
Severe long-term financial and personal consequences
What are the effects of dropping out?
Those who fail to meet expected levels of school achievement are among the most likely to be delinquent.
Who are chronic underachievers?
Research indicates that this is one of the most important predictors of levels of violence
What is the social and educational atmosphere of a school?
Training students in techniques to resist peer pressure.
What is a behavioral school-based prevention program?
According to this sociologist, boys who bully are motivated by the need to prove their masculinity. And terrorizing others is a contrivance that allows them to do so in the easiest way possible.
Who is Jessie Klein?
This researcher believes that the dropout problem is a function of inequality of educational opportunity rather than the failure of individual students
Who is Sherman Dorn?
This study found an association between academic failure and delinquency among chronic offenders. Those who were more likely to become involved in chronic delinquency left school without a diploma.
What is Marvin Wolfgang's Philadelphia cohort study?
According to this researcher and his associates, juvenile victimization and delinquency peak during school hours. Whereas substance use peaks over the weekend.
Who is Soule?
This effort to provide young people with a caring, accepting adult role models strengthens the controls against delinquency
What are personalized student-teacher relationships?
Research by these two individuals found that bullies have a long history of antisocial behaviors that precede their school experiences.
Who are Norman White and Rolf Loeber?
This rate has been decreasing over time
What is the overall dropout rate?
Dividing students into groups according to ability and achievement level
What is academic tracking?
Schools with a healthy climate are less likely to experience as much violence as schools with unhealthy climates
What are Institutional-level explanations for violence in schools?
Established in the 1980s, it is considered the most successful of its type, involving school-wide, classroom-wide, and individual-level interventions
What is Dan Olweus’ anti-bullying program?
True or False: bullying was once considered a normal part of growing up and how youth establish a social hierarchy.
True
Failed courses
GPA
Absences
Pushed out
What are the reasons for dropping out?
Since 1974, this act restricts disclosure of student’s education records without parental consent
What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act?
Social disorganization in a community may be reflected in its school
What are Community-level explanations for violence in schools?
These are some of the most prevalent strategies to make schools more effective instruments of delinquency prevention
What are Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral, Environmental, and Therapeutic strategies?