Abstract
Schools have long been the sites of behaviour which can be described, literally, as crime. Thefts, assaults, sex offences, vandalism, offensive behaviour and indecent language continue to occur within schools. Teachers and students are both victims and offenders, and various school practices have been developed to maintain order and discipline.
This seminar presents papers on reducing crime in schools. In particular it focuses on school discipline, behaviour management, and conflict resolution.
Proceedings of a seminar held 2-4 June 1987
Contents
- Crime at school: an overview
Dennis Challinger - Welcoming address
David Biles - Understanding and preventing behavioural problems in school
Maurice Balson - Parents' view of crime at school
Helen Szuty - Awareness/action/prevention: the pre-service education of teachers relevant to the prevention of crime at schools
Alistair Peacock - Introducing a school discipline code
Kate Sutherland - Empowering the school community: conflict resolution and mediation
Helena Cornelius - Conflict resolution: an alternative approach to school discipline
Susan Plunkett - Adjusting to the abolition of corporal punishment: the South Australian Student Behaviour Management Project
Geoff Thorpe - Using suspension as a sanction: the revision of regulations in Victoria
Roger Slee - 'The Haven' - Whyalla alternative secondary school
Christine Woithe - A study of self-reported offending by Victorian adolescents
Shane Carroll - The 'Ali Baba' program: a joint YACS and NSW Department of Education initiative in intervention into juvenile theft behaviour
Gregg Chapman - Principals and police - a pilot study
Dennis Challinger - The school based community police officer
Roy Harvey - Preventative policing in Queensland schools
David Jefferies, Tony Rand, Sally Leivesley - Arson, vandalism and schools
Frank Meaney - Security against property crime at school: the Victorian Government's response to school crime
Colin O'Neill - School experience of young offenders
Bob Semmens - Schooling and the development of delinquency aspects of the 'hidden curriculum'
Simon Petrie - Criminal teachers?
Peggy Mares - Participants