title: School crime and disruption as a function of student-school fit: An empirical assessment.
abstract: A theoretical model is described which conceptualizes school crime and disruption as a function of the congruence or fit between the personal characteristics of students and the social environments of the schools they attend. In a direct empirical test of the model, indices representing 10 distinct dimensions of student-school fit are related to three composite measures of school misconduct: school crime, school avoidance, and class misbehavior. A number of significant relationships are found between dimensions of student-school fit and the three indices of school misbehavior, several of which manifest one of the nonlinear forms specified by the model, providing at least modest support for a person-environment fit theory of school crime and disruption.
authors: Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA.
authors: R A
authors: RA
authors: Kulka
authors: D M
authors: DM
authors: Klingel
authors: D W
authors: DW
authors: Mann