Table of Contents TitlePage # Abstract 3 Chapter One: Causes of Violence and Crime 4 Chapter Two: New School Theory 19 Chapter Three: Survey and Thesis Methodology 23 Chapter Four: Teacher Perspective vs. Administrative Perspective Within a New School 25 Chapter Five: Discussion, Conclusion and Recommendations 34 Index of Figures 39 Bibliography 40 Appendix A: Administrator Survey 41 Appendix B: Teacher Survey 50 Abstract What is violence? By most authoritative accounts, violence, including school violence, is the use of physical force to cause harm. Physical force …showed first 75 words of 10252 total…

…showed last 75 words of 10252 total…there is a peer mediation program and that some teachers know nothing of the program. Referring back to the survey, question number three has completely different answers between the administrator and the teachers. The teachers responded to only letter (b) with less than one hundred percent. Letter (b) states that reviewing; revisions or monitoring school-wide discipline practices and procedures took place during the 2001-2002 school year to prevent or reduce violent. The administrator believed that