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Violence in Schools: The Response in Europereviewed by Ronnie Casella - 2004 Title: Violence in Schools: The Response in Europe Author(s): Peter K. Smith (Editor) Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 0415278236, Pages: 265, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com Those following developments in social policy in the United
States know that during the 1990s school violence became an urgent
issue for the federal government, prompting high profile reports
and significant policy changes. A common refrain in the
chapters in Violence in Schools: The Response in Europe,
edited by Peter K. Smith, is that Europe too became engrossed in
the issue of school violence primarily during the 1990s. The
book is a compilation of chapters, each of which examines school
violence in one country in the European Union, with additional
commentaries by authors who discuss school violence in Israel,
Australia, and the United States. The text grew out of a
European Union initiative (the Connect initiative) that was
developed to support collaboration between countries in
Europe. The European Commission under its Fifth Framework,
which included the Connect initiative, funded 60 education
projects, six of which were on the topic of school violence.
The book reports on one of these six.
Each chapter reports on one country and... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Ronnie Casella
Central Connecticut State University E-mail Author RONNIE CASELLA is an assistant professor of educational foundations and secondary education at Central Connecticut State University. He received his Ph.D. in Cultural Foundations of Education from Syracuse University and an M.A. in English Education from New York University. He is the author of “Being Down”: Challenging Violence in Urban Schools and At Zero Tolerance: Punishment, Prevention, and School Violence. He has also published articles in The Urban Review, Teachers College Record, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and other journals. His current research focuses on the uses of security technologies in public schools.
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