1. Violence and Its Prevention: A Challenge for Schools / Joan N. Burstyn
2. What Is Violent About "School Violence"? The Nature of Violence in a City High School / Ronnie Casella
3. Importance of Ethnography in Understanding Violence in Schools / Kimberly M. Williams
4. Resisting Dominance? The Study of a Marginalized Masculinity and Its Construction Within High School Walls / Geoff Bender
5. Someone Is Screaming / Howard W. Gordon and Joan N. Burstyn
6. "Frontin' It": Schooling, Violence, and Relationships in the 'Hood / Kimberly M. Williams
7. Interrupting "Good" Girlness: Sexuality, Education, and the Prevention of Violence Against Women / Kristen V. Luschen
8. Involving the Whole School in Violence Prevention / Joan N. Burstyn and Rebecca Stevens
9. Cultural Foundations of Peer Mediation: Beyond a Behaviorist Model of Urban School Conflict / Ronnie Casella
10. Peer Mediation: An Examination of a School District's Training Program for Educators / Rebecca Stevens
11. What Derails Peer Mediation? / Kimberly M. Williams
12. Reaching Troubled Teens Through a Literacy Tutoring Project / Domingo P. Guerra and Joan N. Burstyn
13. Challenge for Schools: To Prevent Violence While Nurturing Democracy / Joan N. Burstyn.