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School size, staffing patterns, and resources are school characteristics of importance because of the suggestions in the NIE (1978) and McPartland and McDill (1976) reports that school size, at least, may be an important determinant of school order, at least indirectly via negative consequences of large school size for the quality of teacher-student interaction. This suggestion is supported by Garbarino (1978). In addition, thorough examination of school size, staffing, and resources is a prerequisite to model testing at a later stage in the present research effort. Eventually, we will want to examine more explicitly hypotheses that these school characteristics influence other aspects of school climate, which in turn are related to delinquency. In this chapter we begin the task by examining correlations of school size, staffing patterns, and resources with our measures of school disorder.
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Gottfredson, G.D., Gottfredson, D.C. (1985). School Size, Staffing, and Resources. In: Victimization in Schools. Law, Society, and Policy, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4985-3_7
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