Research Catalog

Title

School crime & violence : victims' rights / James A. Rapp, Frank Carrington, George Nicholson.

Author

Rapp, James A.

Publication

Malibu, Calif. : National School Safety Center, c1992.

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Additional Authors

• Carrington, Frank
• Nicholson, George.
• National School Safety Center (U.S.).

Description

xi, 127 p.; 26 cm.

Alternative Title

• School crime and violence
• Victims' rights

Subject

• Tort liability of school districts > United States
• School violence > United States
• School discipline > Law and legislation > United States
• Victims of crimes > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. School crime and violence victims. The scope of the problem -- Perpetrators' rights. 2. Victims respond: the right to safe schools. Reshaping the law -- California constitutional right to safe schools -- Federal constitutional considerations -- Tort law right to safe schools -- Statutory remedies. 3. The victims' rights movement. The Connie Francis case -- Victims' rights initiatives. 4. Victims' rights litigation. Negligence theory of tort liability -- Special considerations in victims' rights litigation -- Alternative remedies -- Checklist for victims' rights litigation. 5. Classifications of victim's rights litigation. Victims against perpetrators -- Perpetrators against victims -- Victims against third parties. 6. Schools as victims' rights litigation defendants. Requirements prior to suit -- Sovereign or absolute immunity -- Official or qualified immunity -- Charitable immunity -- Insurance waiver of immunity
• 7. Claims for failure to protect against or prevent non-student crime or violence. Duty-at-large rule or public duty doctrine -- Intervening cause doctrine -- failure to protect or prevent cases in the school setting -- Failure to protect against criminal activity generally -- Failure to protect against ot prevent specific foreseeable criminal activity -- Status as student sufficient to establish duty. 8. Claims for failure to protect against or prevent student crime or violence. Student-school relationship -- Failure to supervise -- Failure to apprehend or restrain isentifiable dangerous students -- Negligent admission of violent students -- Negligent placement of violent students -- Negligent selection, retention or training of staff. 9. Schools respond: providing safe schools. School responsibility -- Student responsibility -- Parent responsibility -- Community responsibility -- Checklist for providing safe schools -- Prevention as goal
• Primary citations -- State and federal provisions -- Restatements.

ISBN

0932612253

OCLC

30820927

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library