Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

["Shelle Marie michaels" <>]

Safely back to school?
Thursday, September 7, 2006

A course being introduced this fall in online format will focus on school 
violence and the juvenile justice system.  It's open to graduate students 
interested in reducing school behavioral problems and violence, and 
complements a course on school law offered by the SCSU College of Education. 

School violence and the juvenile justice system are the focus of an online 
course being introduced this fall at SCSU.  Criminal Justice Studies 661, 
"Juvenile Justice & Schools," is open to graduate students interested in the 
causes and outcomes of juvenile delinquency, school behavior and violence, 
juvenile law and the juvenile justice system as it applies to reducing school 
behavioral problems and violence. 

For students in educational administration, the course will complement a 
course on school law that is offered by the SCSU College of Education.

Textbooks for the online course will include "School Crime and Juvenile 
Justice," released in May in its second edition by Oxford University Press.  
The work is authored by SCSU Professor Richard Lawrence, criminal justice, 
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/rlawrence/<http://web.stcloudstate.edu/rlawrence/>,
 who wrote it in response to a dearth of appropriate textbooks on the subject.

The book reviews the theories that attempt to explain the relationship 
between school crime, crime in the community, the role of parents and peers, 
and school organization and policies.  Lawrence said it also speaks to how 
people can work together to create safer schools and develop cooperative 
delinquency prevention programs.

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