Details

Related name

• Clark, Richard D. [Browse]
• Lab, Steven P. [Browse]
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 2587. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 2587

Restrictions note

Use of these data are restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

The purpose of this study was to gather evidence on the relationship between discipline and the control of victimization in schools and to investigate the effectiveness of humanistic versus coercive disciplinary measures. Survey data were obtained from students, teachers, and principals in each of the 44 junior and senior high schools in a county in Ohio that agreed to participate in the study. The data represent roughly a six-month time frame. Students in grades 7 through 12 were anonymously surveyed in February 1994. The Student Survey (Part 1) was randomly distributed to approximately half of the students in all classrooms in each school. The other half of the students received a different survey that focused on drug use among students (not available with this collection). The teacher (Part 2) and principal (Part 3) surveys were completed at the same time as the student survey. The principal survey included both closed-ended and open-ended questions, while all questions on the student and teacher surveys were closed-ended, with a finite set of answers from which to choose. The three questionnaires were designed to gather respondent demographics, perceptions about school discipline and control, information about weapons and gangs in the school, and perceptions about school crime, including personal victimization and responses to victimization. All three surveys asked whether the school had a student court and, if so, what sanctions could be imposed by the student court for various forms of student misconduct. The student survey and teacher surveys also asked about the availability at school of various controlled drugs. The student survey elicited information about the student's fear of crime in the school and on the way to and from school, avoidance behaviors, and possession of weapons for protection. Data were also obtained from the principals on each school's susp... Cf.: http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/02587.xml

Notes

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Type of data

3 data files + machine-readable documentation (PDF) + SAS setup file(s) + SPSS setup file(s) + Stata setup file(s) + SAS transport + SPSS portable + Stata system

Geographic coverage

Ohio, United States

Funding information

United States Department of Justice. NationalInstitute of Justice. 93-IJ-CX-0034

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Methodology note

• Data source: School data were collected from students, teachers, and principals in 44 junior and senior high schools. Data on the immediate neighborhoods surrounding each school were obtained from the Bureau of the Census, from local police departments, and from a ''windshield'' survey by researchers.
• Universe: All public and private schools in a county in Ohio.

Contents

Part 1: Student Survey Data; Part 2: Teacher Survey Data; Part 3: Principal Survey Data and Neighborhood Data

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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