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Glennon, Sara Denise. "Juvenile Delinquency, IDEA Disability, and School Drop Out in High School Students". Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195884.
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Over the past 10-15 years, the epidemiological research literature on juvenile delinquency has suggested that there is an over-representation of males and Hispanics within the juvenile justice system, and a disproportionate number of youths having an IDEA disability, including emotional disability, learning disability, and mental retardation. In addition, juvenile delinquents tend to perform lower academically than their peers, come from low socioeconomic status backgrounds, drop out of school more often, and frequently come into contact with law enforcement agencies. Moreover, low academic achievement, male gender, and drop out contribute to the increased chances that adolescents will become involved in delinquent activities. Characteristics of juvenile delinquents also tend to be stable over time and resistant to most types of intervention.The purpose of the present study was to examine whether there were significantly greater percentages of school drop out in adjudicated versus non-adjudicated delinquent high school youths with and without an IDEA disability diagnosis. Significant differences between standardized test scores of those adjudicated and non-adjudicated youths who dropped out versus remained in school were also examined. Other variables studied in conjunction with these included gender, minority, and free/reduced lunch status.Chi-Square Tests of Independence revealed a significant association between adjudication and drop out, regardless of disability, gender, minority, or free/reduced lunch status. Chi-Square results also showed a significant association between adjudication and disability, but for non-drop out delinquent youths only. Drop out and disability was found to be significantly associated for males only.Univariate Analyses of Variance revealed significant differences in AIMS Reading standard scores between delinquents who had, versus had not, been identified as having a disability. Significant differences in reading scores were also found between those identified, versus not identified as SLD. Furthermore, an interaction effect between disability and minority status was present. Similar differences were found with respect to AIMS Math scores. Limitations and implications of findings as well as future research directions were discussed.
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Chan, Tsan-ming Kenneth. "School control of juvenile delinquency in Hong Kong /". [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1990. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12840932.
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Vecchio, John Michael. "Do unto others correlations between specific juvenile delinquency and victimization experiences /". Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1213996282.
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Chun, Ping-kit Roxco. "Responses to delinquency in Hong Kong secondary schools towards an integrative approach /". Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37033311.
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Fung, Yuk-ling. "Junior secondary students' understanding of the nature of science through their study of science stories". Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42576908.
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Lui, Lai-hing, e 呂麗慶. "Development of deviant subculture and behaviour: case studies in a secondary school in Hong Kong". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977091.
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Caldwell, Stacy. "The Effects of a Self-Management Procedure on the On-Task Behavior, Academic Productivity, and Academic Accuracy of Female Students with Disabilities in a Juvenile Correctional High School Setting". The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291036723.
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Fung, Yuk-ling, e 馮玉玲. "Junior secondary students' understanding of the nature of science through their study of science stories". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42576908.
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Williamson, David. "The Iron Rage Plus One". Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/742.
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Gunderson, Jennifer R. "Impact of Real Life and Media Violence: Relationships between Violence Exposure, Aggression, Hostility, and Empathy Among High School Students and Detained Adolescents". Connect to Online Resource-OhioLINK, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=toledo1166023506.
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Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Toledo, 2006.Typescript. "Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology." Bibliography: leaves 82-99.
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Al-Qhatani, Mushabab Said. "The impact of family socialisation on juvenile deliquency behaviour in Saudi Arabia, An exploratory study of the behaviour of probation home inmates and high school students in Abha City". Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.511011.
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Chun, Ping-kit Roxco, e 秦炳傑. "Responses to delinquency in Hong Kong secondary schools: towards an integrative approach". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37033311.
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Hallesson, Yvonne. "Högpresterande gymnasieelevers läskompetenser". Licentiate thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för språkdidaktik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-55541.
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Recent international surveys reveal a decline in reading performance among Swedish students during the past decade. In the light of these results, this thesis describes the reading literacy of a class of high-performing students in the Swedish upper secondary school, in order to discern characteristics of successful readers. More specifically, the aim is to describe these students’ reading literacy in terms of their reading habits, approaches to texts, reading strategies, as well as reading positions. The study is framed within a socio-cultural perspective and is based on qualitative methods such as case studies, classroom observations and a group discussion, in combination with a partly quantitative survey. A methodological contribution to the research field is the attempt to develop a method for analyzing students’ reading positions, mainly based on the concept of text movability, as used by af Geijerstam, Liberg et al. The results reveal a deep reading position towards non-fiction texts among a majority of these high-performing students. In comparison with students who adopt a surface-oriented position, these students tend to show greater textual awareness and interactive text movability, and seem to use a wider repertoire of reading strategies in order to attain reading success. This study identifies the most prominent features of high-performing students as their textual awareness, i.e. an ability to comment on content, form, function and potential readers of texts, genre awareness, i.e. an ability to identify various text genres, and metacognitive awareness, i.e. knowing what strategies to use and when to use them. These features can be related to the students’ descriptions of their reading habits which imply that they read a great variety of texts, including both fiction and non-fiction. Most of these students report that they read daily and of their own accord. Having broad textual experience helps when it comes to reading texts in specialized domains that require inferencing and/or field knowledge. There also appears to be a match between the literacy supported in school and the literacy sustained in the students’ home environment. The pedagogical implications are the need for continuous work with students’ reading development and reading strategies, making students aware of different text genres and their specific features, and the importance for students to be challenged in their reading, but naturally in combination with appropriate scaffolding methods.
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Chu, Chun Teng, e 朱駿騰. "Effective of Fiction Listening Practice on High School Students' Fiction and Nonfiction Listening Comprehension". Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73505414784806876037.
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碩士東海大學
外國語文學系
101
L2 learners are supposed to acquire a new language through either reading or listening to both fiction and nonfiction texts. Scholars have accumulated evidence that reading and listening to fiction helps learners increase their L2 comprehension and vocabulary. A growing number of studies have contended that learning to extract information from nonfiction texts is as important as, if not more important than, understanding fiction content. In the real world, people need a greater variety of skills to comprehend nonfiction texts in both written and spoken forms, since L2 learning materials are generally fictitious in nature. While L2 learners are accustomed to reading and listening to fiction, it remains uncertain whether experience with fiction benefits nonfiction comprehension. The purpose of the current study is to investigate whether listening to fiction alone improves overall listening comprehension (fiction and nonfiction listening comprehension). The participants were 142 11th-grade students from four classes. Two classes were assigned to be experimental groups while the other two classes were assigned to be control groups. The participants of the experimental groups received fiction listening training during four months, but the participants of the control groups did not. The Participants of both the experimental groups and control groups completed a pretest at the beginning of the study and a posttest at the end of training. Three paired-samples t-tests were administered to investigate the effectiveness of fiction listening training on participants overall listening comprehension, and fiction and nonfiction listening comprehension. Then, two independent-samples t-tests were used to determine whether the experimental group’s fiction or nonfiction listening comprehension improved more than the control group’s. An ANCOVA further investigated participants’ fiction listening comprehension improvements between the experimental and control groups. The results of the current study revealed that the participants’ overall listening comprehension, more specifically nonfiction listening comprehension, improved because of the fiction listening training. The degree of fiction listening improvement remained inconclusive because participants who achieved higher scores on the pretest did not make significant improvement on the posttest. The fiction listening treatment did not contribute greatly to participants who seemed to have better listening ability at the beginning of the study. Finally, the participants who received no listening training did not show an improvement of their listening comprehension.
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Sun, Li-Chun, e 孫麗君. "A Comparison of the Money Attitudes between Juvenile Delinquents and Junior High School Students". Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17755766040138057998.
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碩士國立中正大學
犯罪防治所
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A Comparison of the Money Attitudes between Juvenile Delinquents and Junior High School Students Abstract The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the differences of the money attitudes between juvenile delinquents and junior high school students. The 505 participants of this study were all male, including 252 juvenile probationers or prisoners, and 253 junior high school students. The main tested variables in the study are saving habits, family’s economical situation and money attitudes. Data were statistically analyzed and the result was obtained as follows: 1. Juvenile delinquents have less saving habits than junior high school students. They want more pocket money, and earn money by doing part-time jobs. 2. Juvenile delinquents and junior high school students are less conscious of family’s economic situation. Both of them often talk with their parents about how to use money. 3. Regarding the dimensions of money attitudes, including “money symbolizes the power ”, “lacking money makes me anxious.” and “owning more money can earn others’ respect”, juvenile delinquents have more significantly positive responses in the three dimensions than junior high school students. Besides, in the dimension of “Using money in a proper way”, junior high school students have more significant positive responses than juvenile delinquents. But there is no difference between juvenile delinquents and junior high school students about their attitudes toward using money carefully. In a modern society, people like to consume first, and pay their debt after several weeks. This trend of consuming behavior also influences the new generation. Through this study, we know more about the money attitudes of juvenile delinquents, and it suggest that financial education was very important for them.
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LIN, SHAO-TING, e 林紹庭. "The Subculture of Students in Juvenile Correction School-The Law of the Jungle in One High School". Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22s2s7.
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碩士國立中正大學
犯罪防治碩士在職專班
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This study is a Ethnography of the students in the juvenile correction school.The researcher used observation to find out the subculture of the students in the school. The researcher sorts out the subculture corrected by observing or interviewing to help the staff in the juvenile correction school used their job.It may offer the following researchers some information to help them completing their studies. The subculture of the students in the school corrected by full participant observation is as follow： 1.The students in the school have developed a unique subculture that different from normal students. 2.The subculture of the students evolved from the mother cultures of students and poor management of the school. 3.The subculture may result some problems in the school,for example：fights of students or danger games playing by students. According to the study results, some advices are offered for readers. 1.The staff in the school must know about the subculture of students. 2.The staff in the school must have some reactions for the subculture. 3.The staff in the school could make use of the subculture for their jobs.
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Cooper, J. Lloyd. "Supports and constraints in the alteration of aggressive and criminal behaviour". 2005. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=232750&T=F.
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Lan, Man-Wen, e 藍曼文. "An Action Research of Using Adolescent Fiction to Improve Junior High School Students’ Reading and Writing Literacy". Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/x9s7up.
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碩士國立東華大學
教育與潛能開發學系
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This research aimed to improve the reading and writing literacy of junior high school students using adolescent fictions. The research subjects included 29 junior high school students （9th graders） at a junior high school in Hualien County. In this action research, three questions were raised: （1） How to design an adolescent fiction reading and writing course answering to not only students’ literacy, but also their learning differences? （2） Having designed and developed the abovementioned course, what kind of changes did happen regarding the literacy in question? （3） What kind of difficulties encountered during the course of the action research; hence, what kind of changes? The following Do’s and Don’ts were concluded after going through the three-phase fiction teaching cycle. The data included the teaching transcripts, the reflection journals on teaching, the students’ literary works, interviews with the students, talks with the thesis advisor and the feedback from a critical friend. 1. Do not regard any fiction as a textbook; instead, do make good use of textual characteristics when teaching. It is suggested that the fictions, which feature topics for discussion and inner depictions, can better motivate students to read. 2. Do not underrate literacy development and hence regard it as skill training; instead, do attach importance to the process of both the scenario-based leading and the students’ active constructing, and use characterization as an introduction to teaching fictions to design a read-to-write literacy teaching. 3. Do differentiate when teaching the literacy of fictions in the classroom, i.e. no need to finish reading the entire novel; instead, do make good readers the teacher’s assistants, have students write their own works on interesting topics, and then start to engage them in the editing work. 4. The biggest achievement, as far as this course is concerned, is to successfully change the students’ impressions about reading and writing. On the one hand, the reading literacy, the students attempted to reach the ‘Stage of Multiple Viewpoints’; on the other hand, the writing literacy, the students made progress in their choice of ideas and materials, structures and organizations, and the presentation of details. The reflection upon this action research: （1） Do conduct textual analysis seriously because it enables the teacher to rethink the definition of reading comprehension. （2） Do not rush in; instead, do pay close attention to the course of learning established independently by the students, do provide weak readers with supports necessary, and do unleash the value of the fictions. Besides these two, more suggestions have been offered according to the aforementioned finding and results in the thesis.
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"靑少年偏差行為的性別差異: 香港中文學生的硏究". 1987. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5887469.
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丘海雄.Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學, 1987.
Reprint of manuscript.
Qiu Haixiong.
Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1987.
導論 --- p.1
Chapter 第一章 --- 研究的問題 --- p.8
Chapter 第二章 --- 理論與假設
Chapter 第一節 --- 理論回顧 --- p.14
Chapter 第二節 --- 變項與假設 --- p.21
Chapter 第三章 --- 研究的方法
Chapter 第一節 --- 自陳法 --- p.55
Chapter 第二節 --- 樣本與資料收集過程 --- p.59
Chapter 第三節 --- 概念的操作化和量度 --- p.63
Chapter 第四章 --- 研究結果與分析
Chapter 第一節 --- 兩變項分析 --- p.75
Chapter 第二節 --- 多變項分析 --- p.79
Chapter 第三節 --- 男女兩個群體的比較 --- p.98
Chapter 第五章 --- 結論
Chapter 第一節 --- 研究結果 --- p.107
Chapter 第二節 --- 局限性 --- p.112
Chapter 第三節 --- 討論與建設 --- p.114
注釋 --- p.117
中文參考資料 --- p.1
英文參考資料 --- p.1
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Yueh, Tsai Feng, e 蔡峰月. "Juvenile’ Moral Value in Social Evolution- -The survey research of Chang Hua Zone vocational high school students’ moral value". Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38418521941329713692.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
三民主義研究所在職進修碩士學位班
91
In the past fifty years, Taiwan overcame the restriction of congenital island resource scarcity and exploited Chinese excellent traditional culture characteristics of Confucianism’s diligence and saving. Moreover, all people in Taiwan worked hard together to make an “economical miracle”. From then on, people lived in rich life, and economy prospered. Besides, people in Taiwan not only developed the new situation of party parading in politics to implement the system of democratic politics, but also cultivated citizens’ habits of participating politics. However, as the society was changed too rapidly, social structure and social relation were also changed accordingly. Thus, many kinds of social problems occurred. For example, social value corrupted, human nature degenerated and moral value became befogged. Those problems mentioned above make the whole society indulge in a living style of luxury, dissipation, waste and extravagance. Because of the influence from the society, juveniles are becoming blind, eager for quick success and instant benefit, estranged from people, and have the sense of insecurity and uncertainty. Therefore, how we can make juvenile know the exact value concepts in this lost generation depends on the reestablishment and strengthening of moral value consciousness. Just as Da Syue says: “proverty benefits your house, virtue benefits your body.” Jnveniles are the main force for the competing power of future country. The objects of this research is from the zone of Changhua, and we want to do some reseaerch about moral value. The Stratified Random and Cluster Sampling method should be taken for sampling .We consider students’ grade, sex, and type as much as possible. Moreover, we explore vocational high school students’ moral value concepts by means of questionnaire, and hope that we can generalize the conclusion for those educators or investigators who engage in the moral research as a referen . The time for questionnaire is from February 22 to March 10 in 2002. The amout of effective questionnaires are 489. The information we get are analyzed by computer package program SPSS/PC+. The statistic methods we adopt are Frequency Distribution, Proportion, Mean, Stahdard Deviation, T-Test, One-Way ANOVA, Scheffe method Post Hoc, Pearson product-moment correlation. The following is the conclusion we get: 1.Investigated different students with different sex have conspicuously different moral value. 2.Different investigated students in different type schools have conspicuously different moral value. 3.The moral values of investigated students who have the experiences of class officers and clubs and who have not are conspicuously different. 4.Investigated students’ “sex” and “family factor” are conspicuously correlative with “rely on traditional moral mechanism”. 5.Investigated students’ “sex” and “family factor” are conspicuously correlative with “rely on democratic moral mechanism”. 6.Investigated students’ “sex”, and “citizen participating experience” are conspicuously correlative with “trust on others”. 7.Investigated students’ “sex” and “citizen participating experience” are conspicuously correlative with “tolerance on citizen moral ”. 8.Investigated students’ “sex”, and “citizen participating experience” are conspicuously correlative with “tolerance on private moral ”. 9.Investigated students’ “rely on traditional moral mechanism” are conspicuously correlative with “tolerance on citizen moral”. 10.Investigated students’ “rely on democratic moral mechanism” are conspicuously correlative with “tolerance on citizen moral”. 11.Investigated students’ “turst on others” are conspicuously correlative with “tolerance on citizen moral”. 12.Investigated students’ “rely on traditional moral mechanism” are conspicuously correlative with “tolerance on private moral”. 13.Investigated students’ “rely on democratic moral mechanism” are conspicuously correlative with “tolerance on private moral”. 14.Investigated Students’“turst on others” are conspicuously correlative with “tolerance on private moral”.
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Tsui, Yi Chun, e 崔儀君. "Effects of Reality Therapy Approach Classroom Guidance Program on the Juvenile Correctional School Students’ Self-control and Self-efficacy — Ming Yang High School". Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gkcmm4.
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碩士國立中正大學
犯罪防治研究所
102
The purpose of this research is to study how Reality Therapy Approach Classroom Guidance Program affects the Juvenile Correctional school students’ self-control and self-efficacy. The main goal of this research is to design a Reality Therapy Approach Classroom Guidance Program for the Juvenile Correctional school students and to understand how Reality Therapy Classroom Guidance Program affects the Juvenile Correctional school students’ self-control and self-efficacy in short-term period, long-term period, and the period after group treatment with no counseling assistance. The experiment was done on two groups with the Juvenile Correctional school students from Ming Yang High School. There were two groups: experiment group and control group, each group composed of forty-five people with a total of ninety students who are from different glasses. The experiment group received Reality Therapy treatments for ninety minutes weekly for ten weeks; the control group received counseling courses from the Juvenile Correctional school. Each group was evaluated by “Self-control of the delinquents juvenile Scale” and “Self-efficacy of the delinquents juvenile Scale”. The evaluation was done before the experiment started, after the experiment finished, and three month after the experiment. The data were analyzed by analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) for quantitative analysis.. This study shows: The results showed that Reality Therapy Approach Classroom Guidance Program had an immediate effect on self-control and self-efficacy .Both are not effects of long-term period, and the period after group treatment. Finally, suggestions from the results of this study were provided for school counselors and correctional officers. Some topics for future research were also indicated.
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"An exploratory study on the influence of the mode of parental and school supervision on alienation among adolescents in Hong Kong". Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5886217.
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Mathungeni, Recheal Nthangeni. "An Exploratory Study of Crime Among High School Learners in Nzhelele East Circuit, Vhembe District, Limpopo Province". Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1118.
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MA (Youth in Development)Institute for Gender and Youth Studies
High school crime has become a major problem all over the world including South Africa. The aim of this study was to explore the nature, causes and effects of youth crime amongst learners in high schools in Nzhelele East Circuit. Three high schools known for high crime rate were purposefully selected. A mixed method approach was adopted. Focus groups were conducted among the Life Orientation teachers in the selected schools to collect qualitative data, and questionnaires were administered to learners to collect quantitative data. Purposive sampling was used to sample Life Orientation teachers for the focus groups. Stratified random sampling was used to survey 40 grade 10 and 40 grade 11 learners from each of the three high schools (240 learners). Qualitative data was analyzed thematically and the quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics methods. Consequently, the results from the two methods were compared and triangulated. Ethical precautionary measures were taken to avoid harm to the research participants. The study found that a variety of family, economic and environmental factors contribute to crime in schools. Findings of this study assist the teachers, learners, parents and the Department of Education authorities in the Vhembe District to gain a better understanding of the nature, causes and effects of crime among high school learners. Only a multi-pronged strategy can be effective in overcoming crime which is plaguing many high schools in South Africa.
NRF
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Mhlongo, Thabani. "The perceptions and experiences of students regarding weapons in schools in Umgungundlovu District, KwaZulu-Natal". Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10321/2618.
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Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Master's in Public Management, Durban University of Technology, 2017.The purpose of the study explores the perception and experiences of students regarding weapons in schools, in a bid to create a peaceful and conducive learning environment. This study concentrated on four high schools in Umgungundlovu District. Students, educators and principals were asked to participate in this study on a voluntary basis. The study recognises that existing data related to weapons in South African schools is largely anecdotal. The significance of the study is that it collected data related to the weapons in schools and used data to inform recommendations on ways in which we can make schools safer places to the young people and staff. This was a mixed methods survey; however, the bulk of the findings were drawn from the quantitative data, which was conducted through surveys. The qualitative data was collected in interviews and in focus group discussions. The data revealed that a high proportion of students have seen weapons in school, which might be an indication that weapons find easy access onto school premises. The results revealed the types of weapons brought to schools. Knives were the weapons most seen at school followed by guns, while some other weapons mentioned were pepper sprays, screwdrivers, pangas and bats The study showed that in other schools, drugs, alcohol, substance abuse were reported in the sample. Among the contributing factors raised by the respondents on the reasons for the presence of weapons onto schools were the issue of drugs, alcohol, bullying, fights among students, and being involved on gang activities. Some policy recommendations regarding school security measures were proposed on the basis of the findings which were drawn from this study. As part of the study, it is recommended that the Department of Education ensure that all South African schools implement well-documented discipline policies, a code of conduct and school rules for their school which must clearly indicate seriousness of carrying a weapon in school as well as the consequences of misbehaviour. The policy must have steps to be followed by the principals and or educators where there are elements of misconduct against the students and sanctions to be issued if the student is found guilty. Other recommendations were made in line with the findings based on the results. Limitations of the study were further pointed out.
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