School Crime: Ideologies and Incident Reporting

Abstract

Since the mid 1960's the problem of school crime has had varying degrees of impact on our nation's public school system. Ideologies with respect to source of the school crime problem are controversial. Some propose that the source of the problem is located within the school itself, others suggest that the source is the community, while others contend that a combination of these two ideologies provide a more accurate explanation. In addition to this controversy in ideology, there exists the problems associated with the reporting of inaccurate and inadequate incidents of school crime to a central data collection point.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 07, 1989
Accession Number
ADA217435

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  • Thomas J. Plutt

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