Teacher_Victimization

Teacher Victimization Background of crime victimization and some of the factors which lead to crime in schools and collegiate campuses: Teacher Victimization: Teachers experience a variety of criminal acts throughout the school year. These indignities range from rare offenses, such as rape and assault, to more frequent experiences of verbal abuse. In a typical month, teachers endure physical attacks, robberies, thefts of $1 or more, and swearing and obscene gestures. It is estimated that each month, 6,000 teachers have at least one robbery; 128,000 have had something stolen from them worth more than a dollar; 5,200 are physically attacked. Also, 48% of the teachers report that students swore at them and made obscene gestures, and 12% report that a student threatened to harm them. An equal percent (50/50) reported they hesitated to confront misbehaving students for fear of their own safety. MdDermott & Hindelang conducted a survey in the late 1970’s in 28 cities. According to them, about 8% of the 3.3 million victimizations reported in a 1 year period occurred in school, and about 8% of these were victimizations of teachers or school administrators. Most of these crimes involve theft (larceny w/o victimizations, schools, students, school, about, teachers, rules, families, student, criminal, children, likely, factor, school’s, much, victimization, less, environment, amount, among, ways, way, typical, teacher, social, resources, report, raise, part, moral, major, instance, indignities, good, girls