Eitle, David, & Eitle, Tamela McNulty
Researchers: David EitleTamela McNulty Eitle
University Affiliation: Montana State University
Email: deitle@montana.edu
Research Question:
Whether desegregation reduces or exacerbates the problem of school violence.
Published: 1
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: Social Forces
Journal Entry: Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 589-615
Year: 2003
Findings:
- Increasing levels of school segregation are associated with decreases in school violence and the level of racial inequality in the community conditions the inverse relationship between school segregation and school violence.
- Supports previous findings that intergroup contact may exacerbate feelings of frustration and prejudice between groups if the groups are unequal in status.
- Under conditions of greater racial inequality in a county, the magnitude of the association between school segregation and violent crime is larger.
- Higher levels of crime in the community are correlated with greater rates of violence at schools in those communities.
- Schools with a greater percentage of students being African American, middle schools and schools exhibiting weaker attachment and commitment of the student body to the schools, have higher violent crime rates.