Urges community colleges and police departments to cooperate in the development of meaningful, relevant and practical police science programs to raise the educational level of police departments throughout the country. (AYC)

Examines the implications of the Young Offenders Act for educators by focusing on three stages of direct relevance to educators: preventive education, prearrest through adjudication, and meaningful intervention following adjudication. Outlines the philosophy of the Young Offenders Act and provisions that illustrate its fundamental principles.…

Reviews the growth of postsecondary programs in criminal justice. Cites studies and reports indicative of the need to improve the quality of police personnel, the value of a college education, and the advantages of community college programs, which offer practical training. (AYC)

Because school lockers are potential hiding places for weapons and drugs, some schools are eliminating them. Searching student lockers on a random basis raises legal questions. Examines the legality of random locker searches based upon the guidelines for student searches set forth by the Supreme Court in "New Jersey v. T.L.O." and lower…

In this article we consider how broad shifts in social relations over the past 30 years have given rise to new social control regimes in US public schools. We argue that the contemporary mechanisms of control engendered by mass incarceration and post-industrialization have re-shaped school discipline. To illustrate contemporary discipline in the…

When armed police officers, with no warrant, confiscated and searched the computer from this author's state university office, she began to cross-examine her relationship to computers and to investigate professors' computer privacy at public universities. She had violated no university policy. She had simply received an anonymous e-mail (an e-mail…

In 1985 the Illinois Legislature revised its Juvenile Court Act and sections of the criminal code to get tough on juvenile crime and school-related crime. The Illinois Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the act. Greater legislative and judicial support is a national trend to control school violence. (MLF)

Outlines the development of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program (DARE), particularly in the United Kingdom, and explores the added value of DARE for children, schools, teachers, and the community. Considers the development of DARE in terms of curriculum review to optimize DARE in accordance with current best practice guidance. (Author/KB)

This document identifies violence as a major problem in North Carolina public schools, with thousands of students and staff victimized every year. In 1994, 6,937 criminal incidents were reported to the State Board of Education; 6,897 students were involved in incidents on school property as offenders and 1,447 students were victimized.…

As administrators contemplate installing metal detectors, different legal issues must be considered. Five lessons learned from past litigation are listed to aid administrators in their decision. A sample policy outline concerning weapons and metal detectors is provided. (KDP)

To fight school vandalism, a community should set up a broad-based committee for vandalism prevention. The committee might consider setting up a vandalism hotline, installing silent alarms in schools, increasing exterior school lighting and police surveillance, correcting vandalism quickly, and publicizing their efforts and the results.…

A federal case from Georgia about strip-searches of fifth-grade students for a missing $26 was appealed to the 11th Circuit Court. The 11th Circuit affirmed the district court that the strip searches were unconstitutional but that certain federal law rules shielded the school employees, a police officer, the school district, and the county from…

This paper discusses the proper way to conduct official government investigations on college campuses within the framework of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. The article emphasizes that this amendment lays the groundwork for the limitations on the exercise of…

Legal methods and related case law that can be used by public higher education administrators to deal with intrusions by outsiders onto the campus are examined. The following legal factors related to control of campus access are addressed: risk management, police power, general trespass, school related trespass/loitering statutes, First and…

Various social changes have diminished the authority of school officials, deemphasized the school role, and altered the options regarding school discipline. School officials must recognize when and how they should utilize police expertise and when they must submit to police jurisdiction over student-committed crime in schools. (Author/MJL)