School Community and Disorder: Communal Schools, Student Bonding, Delinquency and Victimization (Criminal Justice (Lfb Scholarly Publishing Llc).)

Payne focuses on the impact of social organization on school disorder. Communal school organization includes supportive relationships among school members, collaboration and participation of these members, and common norms and goals held by the members. This school organization influences student attachment and commitment to the school which, in turn, affects the level of disorder in the school. In addition, she explores the interaction between communal school organization and the size and racial composition of a school finding that communal school organization matters more for schools which are more racially diverse. Her conclusions include the work’s implications for the prevention of delinquency. Table of Contents 8 List of Tables 10 List of Figures 14 Chapter 1: Introduction 18 Chapter 2: Communal School Organization and Student Bonding: Previous Research 24 Social Organization of Schools 24 Communal School Organization 27 Student Bonding 40 The Links 46 Interactions 47 Hypotheses Examined 48 Chapter 3: Study Data and Measures 50 Data 50 Final Sample 58 Measures 60 Plans for Analysis 85 Chapter 4: Relationships among Communal School Organization, Student Bonding, and School Disorder: Study Results 96 Measurement Models 96 Control Variables 100 Hypothesis 1 103 Hypothesis 2 107 Hypothesis 3 110 Chapter 5: Interactions among Communal School Organization, School Size, and Racial Diversity 114 Hypothesis 4 114 Chapter 6: Discussion 136 Summary of Findings 136 Discussion of Findings 138 Limitations of Study 142 Future Research 145 Potential for Prevention 148 Conclusion 151 References 154 Index 166 A 166 B 166 C 166 D 168 E 168 F 168 G 168 H 168 I 169 J 169 K 169 L 169 M 169 N 170 O 170 P 170 R 171 S 171 T 177 U 177 V 177 W 177 Z 178 Over the past decade, violence and crime in schools has emerged as a dominant concern of the public in general, and of educators and criminologists more specifically. Allison Ann Payne. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 137-147) And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.