SOC316H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: School Violence, School Uniform, Neoliberalism
SOC316 MARCH 26 LECTURE
Situation Crime Prevention:
• O’eil ad MGloi:
• fewer classroom changes less property and violent crime
• biggest predictor of school violence is the number of students, the number of students
there are the violence rates go up
• crime prevention see to hae a oo sese feel to it, the data is’t reall orkig
• Schools are the most safest place for children, at home there’s a chance of getting killed,
abused, etc.
• Wilcox et. Al they looked at defensible spaces, creating places that are defensible,
looked at the idea of school that it was some sort of benefit for them
• Said there is an negligible effect on victimization
• The effects it did have is that teachers means there is less crime and less school
disorder, it’s the teahers and educators that make the school safe
• Schrek et al. the risk factors for students is theft or violent crime, whose likely to
experience theft and violent crime? Its students
• The idea of target hardening tactics consistently did not influence risk of victimization
• Theft is more likely to happen in lockers : schools with regular locker checks experienced
more theft
• “ituatioal rie preetio do’t see to ork i the otet of shools
What do we do with the problem like situation crime prevention?
• 2 studies argued for situatioal rie preetio, the ere’t logiall folloig hat
they argued, they kept saying schools should follow this method
• qualitative research argued that technologies institutionalize mistrust school had
security cameras, so what is that impact? You might be seen as suspicious
• they are generally negative motivational techniques, creating barriers
• it serves to increate alienation
• There are environmentally strategies which are promising: a smaller school size and
smaller class size , the principal knowing the entire school population creating a bond,
the teacher knows everyone and gets to know all students on an intimate level
• LGBTQ consequences: they feel safer in larger urban schools
School Uniforms:
• Uniforms have no effect on substance use , no effect on behavioural problems, violence,
and attendance
• There is a negative correlation between uniforms and student achievement
• There are lower levels of self perception and personal satisfaction
• There is an increasing perceptions of safety : staff had better attitudes to students,
adults felt safer then students
• Teachers reported less gang presence and not students
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Document Summary
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