1. Boyd‚ Hannah. Keeping Schools Safe. Education.com. Web page. Secondary Source. Intended Audience: Parents concerned with school safety issues. This article talks about the statistics in school safety‚ revealing that violence in schools are actually at a decline (most likely due to the technological advances). As far as preventing violence‚ Boyd says you should ask your child if he feels safe in school and if there are any problems. Also‚ talk with your school to find out what it’s doing
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School violence is a problem throughout the United States. Students can only learn effectively in a safe and protected environment. The daily news reports too often remind us‚ schools are no longer immune from the violence that plagues other parts of society. Many people question‚ "How could we as a nation let such a terrible thing take place"? In my opinion‚ school bullying‚ family and or personal problems‚ and gangs are some of many reasons that relate to violence in school aged children. First
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are all kinds of school related violence and shootings today. If The Police are not full force in the schools they are not going to be able to quickly respond to something that happens unexpectedly. The first people to protect the students are the school staff themselves‚ Yet they do not have the resources to do so. Arming the teachers is the easiest way to do that. Indiana has passed a law that requires schools to have an armed Protection Officer on campus at all times during school hours (Chapter
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Does School Violence Starts at Home? Rebecca Campbell PSY 496 Applied Project Jason Etchegaray December 10‚ 2011 Abstract The best place to start is understanding the cause of school violence and then one can understand what to do to work toward a prevention. In this qualitative research plan‚ I will be gathering data and putting it all together to come up with a decision as to whether school violence starts at home‚ looking at different problems that may occur and problems
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life I’ve been dumped on” (Page 27). As a result‚ the anger that was building inside of him eventually got out of control.This anger causes Cole to commit crimes. Cole robbed and trashed a hardware store. Peter‚ a boy at Cole’s school‚ found out that Cole did this act of violence. So‚ Peter told on Cole. Cole found out‚ in which he got very angry and mad. Instead of confronting Peter‚ Cole decided to smash Peter’s head against the sidewalk‚ very badly.Once Cole was sent to the island of Drake in Alaska
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MLK and Gang Violence Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a very powerful and kind man. His life was one that was devoted completely to his one and only life goal- ending segregation and violence. He attempted to accomplish this through making a series of speeches throughout the nation. He never solved anything with physical contact‚ but with his mind and with his voice. Thinking about Dr. King’s methods of approaching violence‚ we may ask ourselves‚ “What would Martin Luther King do about modern-day
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A gang is “an association of three or more individuals‚ whose purpose in part is to engage in criminal activity and which uses violence or intimidation to further its criminal objectives” (National Institute of Justice). Gangs are organized as structured social groups‚ being more complex than they might first seem. When criminals come together as a group‚ trouble is bound to occur‚ and these gangs become a powerful force that must be combated. Gangs are well known‚ but how do gangs operate? Why do
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argue that gang activity and youth involvement has grown exponentially through the years‚ it has been an ongoing epidemic for decades. Methods‚ levels of violence‚ rules‚ and motivations may have changed over the years‚ but the basic infrastructure has remained the same. The earliest accounts of youth involvement in gangs first appeared in Europe or Mexico‚ while the earliest record of youth gangs appearing in the United States are recorded as early as 1783. In the early 1800’s youth gangs appeared
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These three articles were specific in trying to understand the relationship between ethnicity/race‚ violence‚ and the culture of gangs. Most of them focused on adolescence and creating a way to view how violence‚ defining of ethnicity‚ and other environmental forces cause the gang culture. In the journal Ethnic Identity and Offending Trajectories Among Mexican American Juvenile Offenders: Gang Membership and Psychological Maturity‚ George P. Knight et al. constructed a way to identify and be able
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What is school violence? Many describe school violence as any form of violence projected on an individual within school premises. Within the decade’s school violence has become more and more common in our society and has even lead to mass shootings. Most shooters are seen as outcasts by their peers and feel excluded. In our course textbook‚ Understanding Violence and Victimization cites that violence has increased dramatically within the past decade (Meadows‚ 2013). Meadows then discusses some risk
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