Inner City School Violence

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the cause of violence in inner city schools might be related to a lack of resources to combat violence and lack of interest in productive activities on the part of the students. The author points out that the decision to include mandatory police officers on patrol in the inner city school building may be necessary to reduce the total level of harm to the society in that setting, but students may feel that their privacy is being invaded, may feel depressed to be in a school where there are mandatory police officers and may not support the program on a student-centered level. The paper relates that inner city schools are best served by emphasizing positive, well-directed, high-quality extracurricular choices to improve students' self-concepts, which will lead to improved academic achievement and a decrease in too much sex and violence in the school environment.

Table of Contents
Explanations for Violence
Mandatory Police Officers
Drugs
Teenage Pregnancy
Lack of Interest in Academics
What Can Be Done
Future Programs/Facilities

From the Paper:

"If a student chooses to spend their time away from school in an unproductive manner that is dictated by violence, this will affect they way they behave when inside of the institution in a negative way. This is often a problem in inner city and other schools where a culture of oppression may heighten violence. Attention need not be over-
emphasized on recent events concentrating on violence in school, as statistics and mass media attention tend to speak for themselves in the emotions and opinions raised by negative incidents in inner city schools, but in schools like Columbine as well. The lack of positive patterns of rule enforcement in schools can, in extreme cases, lead students to
form horrifyingly negative structural patterns of behavior that are then taken back into the institution in violent ways."

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