I. Introduction. Student aggression : current status / Arnold P. Goldstein and Jane Close Conoley. II. Practitioners' perspectives. The low-aggression classroom : a teacher's view / Susan H. Striepling -- Creating safe schools : a principal's perspective / Sheldon Braaten -- The state department of education's role in creating safe schools / Marilyn L. Grady, Bernita L. Krumm, and Mary Ann Losh -- National trends in school violence : statistics and prevention strategies / Ronald D. Stephens. III. Student-oriented interventions. Preschool interventions / Karen T. Carey -- Classroom management / Harold R. Keller and Renee C. Tapasak -- School crisis teams / Scott Poland -- Interventions for aggressive students in a public-school-based day treatment program / Jerry Oestmann and Margaret B. Walker -- Gang-oriented interventions / Donald W. Kodluboy.

IV. School-oriented interventions. Academic and curriculum interventions with aggressive youths / Wendy A. Gagnon and Jane Close Conoley -- The safe school : moving beyond crime prevention to school empowerment / Gale M. Morrison, Michael J. Furlong, and Richard L. Morrison -- Security policy, personnel, and operations / Kenneth S. Trump -- Controlling vandalism : the person-environment duet / Arnold P. Goldstein. V. System-oriented interventions. Families with aggressive children and adolescents / Sandra L. Christenson, Julie A. Hirsch, and Christine M. Hurley -- Coping with the consequences of community violence / James Gabarino and Kathleen Kostelny. VI. Special topics. School violence and cultural sensitivity / Gwendolyn Cartledge and Carolyn Talbert Johnson -- Victims and victimizers : the two faces of school violence / Irwin Hyman ... [et al.] -- FERPA and school violence : the silence that kills / Bernard James. VII. Summary. The known, unknown, and future of violence reduction / Jane Close Conoley and Arnold P. Goldstein.