The rights of victims of crime or violence in school settings are analyzed in this book. The first chapter looks at the scope of the problem and outlines the rights already established for those accused of crimes. The second chapter focuses on efforts to make educational environments safe, including a 1982 amendment to the California Constitution. The growth of the victims' rights movement since the 1970's is reviewed in chapter 3. The fourth chapter discusses victims' rights litigation and provides a checklist for assessing litigability in individual cases. Three main classifications of victims' rights litigation are differentiated in chapter 5--lawsuits by victims against perpetrators, by perpetrators against victims, and by victims against third parties. Chapter 6 considers schools as defendants in victims' rights litigation, and reviews various types of immunity. The seventh chapter examines claims involving schools' failure to protect against or prevent crimes by nonstudents, and the eighth chapter analyzes such claims involving crimes by students. Chapter 9 reviews the roles of schools, students, parents, and others in creating safe schools, and provides a checklist of steps to take. Lists of relevant legal citations and state and federal laws and regulations are appended. (PGD)