Vandalism costs are usually the result of numerous small incidents, rather than more-serious incidents. Various estimates reveal that the costs of school vandalism are both high and increasing. Not all incidents of vandalism and break-ins have the same effect on the school environment.
Again, two useful dimensions for understanding the problem's impact are the monetary cost where the repair charges are high , and the social cost where the event has a significant negative impact on student, staff, and community morale. Events with high monetary and social costs typically occur less frequently than those with low monetary and social costs. Understanding the factors that contribute to your problem will help you frame your own local analysis questions, determine good effectiveness measures, recognize key intervention points, and select appropriate responses.
Those who vandalize or break into schools are typically young and male, acting in small groups. Vandalism and break-ins are most common among junior high school students, and become less frequent as students reach high school.
While the majority of students do not engage in vandalism, they do not generally harbor negative feelings toward those who do. In other words, "vandalism is a behavior that students can perform without the risk of condemnation by other students. Though far less frequently, adults sometimes commit school vandalism and break-ins.
Most often, they do so to steal high-value items e. The typical observer may think school vandalism and break-ins are pointless, particularly when the offenders have focused on property destruction and have taken nothing of value. For more details: Your Grant Advice Notice contains the details of the vandalism funding. Property design standards and legal requirements. The following table lists items that you can't use your vandalism funding for. It also shows other funding sources you may use to pay to repair such damage.
Contents insurance for schools. Security management security systems. The 5 vandalism risk categories are ranked from A lowest risk to E highest risk. The funding you receive is the mid-point amount within your category, multiplied by the number of your students.
If your vandalism costs go over the mid-point, you have to meet the difference, up to the upper limit. Kiwi Park Primary School has students and is in category B. Kiwi Park Secondary School has students and is in category A. To be reassessed you need to provide us with a record of your vandalism costs for the last 3 years. Having the student remedy the problem he created is the best way of holding him accountable for his behavior.
In devising this remedy, consider the nature of the damage and the age of the student, and make the punishment fit the crime. If the student has torn a page from a book, you might have him carefully tape it back in the book. If he has put gum under his desk, you might have him stay after school and remove gum from under all the desks.
If he has written on the desk, have him clean the desks in your classroom. If the damage is such that the parents must pay for it, suggest that they find some way for their child to do chores at home to work off the cost in a way that is suitable for his age. Model respect for school property. Demonstrate to your students how you value school property through your actions. You can do this by treating items in your room with care, whether by the way you have arranged books on the shelves or the attention you have paid to decorating the room.
Recognize students who treat property with care. This not only conveys the message that care of school property is an important value but also suggests to students that treat classroom materials respectfully will gain attention from you.
Have the student write down what he did. Have an older student describe what he did on paper and ask him to discuss the possible consequences of school vandalism. Tell him that you will put this paper in his school file and remove it at the end of the year if there are no further incidents of vandalism.
You might also send his written statement to his parents while telling the student you are doing this. By Mark Theoharis. The crime of vandalism, sometimes called malicious mischief, criminal mischief , or property damage, occurs whenever someone intentionally damages property that belongs to someone else. Juvenile vandalism is any vandalism performed by a person under the age of All states criminalize vandalism, though the language state laws use to describe the offense often differs.
Regardless of how state laws describe the crime, all states criminalize the act of vandalism. If you're an adult facing vandalism charges, please see Vandalism. States do not have separate laws on vandalism and teen vandalism. Instead, vandalism laws apply to everyone regardless of a person's age. When a person under the age of 18 commits vandalism, that person is dealt with through the juvenile justice system.
In this system, a prosecutor must still show that vandalism occurred, but the way the courts deal with the crime and the juvenile offender is very different than the way an adult court would deal with it.
Vandalism occurs when a person damages someone else's property without the owner's permission. Any action that causes actual physical harm to property, or that diminishes the property's value, qualifies as vandalism. For example, common activities such as breaking windows, keying cars, or tagging structures with paint or other forms of graffiti count as vandalism.
As long as you are not the owner of the property, or do not have the owner's permission, any damage to any property is covered under vandalism laws. The damage can be very slight, and the property can be real estate, personal property, or property owned by the public. A person cannot accidentally commit vandalism. Vandalism requires that a person have the intent to act in a way that results in property damage, even if the person didn't intend to cause the specific damage to the property.
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