学校在许多方面都受到犯罪学家的注意。一般来讲,学校是孩子与比自己家庭范围大的群体交往的第一个地方。正如曼海姆(Mannheim)所指出的,学校一定会对孩子提出他们无法逃避的要求,而家庭则不一定。学校也是能够观察到正常的或反常的社会行为的最早征兆的地方。 Schools are in many ways the attention of criminologists. In general, school is the first place where children engage with groups larger than their own family. As Mannheim points out, schools are bound to ask their children their unavoidable demands, not families. Schools are also places where the earliest signs of normal or abnormal social behavior can be observed.