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School violence in context : culture, neighborhood, family, school, and gender /

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"Draws on surveys comparing Jewish and Arab-Israeli students with students in the United States. Presents an empirically-based model for understanding school violence, highlighting both universal and culturally specific patterns of school violence"--Provided by publisher

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benbenishty, Rami
Other Authors: Asṭor, Ron
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
School violence > Social aspects > Israel > Case studies.
School violence > Social aspects > United States > Case studies.
School violence > Cross-cultural studies.
Violence dans les écoles > Aspect social > Israël > Études de cas.
Violence dans les écoles > Aspect social > États-Unis > Cas, Études de.
Violence dans les écoles > Études transculturelles.
Violence dans les écoles > Aspect social > États-Unis > Études de cas.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > School Safety & Violence.
School violence
Israel
United States
Geweld.
Scholen.
Vergelijkende onderwijskunde.
Electronic books.
Case studies
Cross-cultural studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • School victimization embedded in context: a heuristic model
  • Context and methods
  • Victimization types
  • Patterns of victimization
  • Sexual harassment
  • Student victimization by staff
  • The influence within-school context on the subjective experience of victimization: safety, violence as a problem, and school nonattendance due to fear
  • Difference in victimization between schools
  • Schools embedded in larger contexts: the Matryoshka Doll theory of school violence
  • One school, multiple perspectives on school safety
  • Revisiting our central thesis: schools to the center o fthe theoretical model
  • Appendix 1: Research instruments
  • Appendix 2: Details of the structural equation analyses.