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School Violence Intervention: A Practical Handbookreviewed by Lizbet Simmons - January 31, 2006 Title: School Violence Intervention: A Practical Handbook Author(s): Jane Close Conoley and Arnold P. Goldstein Publisher: Guilford Press, New York ISBN: 1572306718, Pages: 543, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com In the second edition of their volume, School Violence Intervention: A Practical Handbook, editors Conoley and Goldstein present a comprehensive and well-timed guidebook for teachers, administrators, school counselors, policy makers, and youth advocates who are concerned about violence in U.S. public schools and hope to gain skills for addressing it. Since the first edition of this book was published by the editors in 1997, new questions have emerged in the study of school violence and new strategies for intervention have evolved. In the late 1990s, events in Littleton, Colorado, Pearl, Mississippi, and West Padukah, Kentucky, among several other U.S. cities, have elevated national concerns and motivated new frames for scholarship. It is in this context that Conoley and Goldstein have revised their volume.
Significantly, this new edition, which is motivated by real problems of violence in school, such as those that made Columbine High School famous, is also guided by... (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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- Lizbet Simmons
University of California, Berkeley E-mail Author LIZBET SIMMONS is a lecturing professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Social and Cultural Studies Program. Her research centers on school violence and school disciplinary policies. In her most recent research project, she examined the role of race in the enactment of school disciplinary policy within the New Orleans Public School system.
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