Violence in Schools

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Many studies have been conducted to try and explain the reasoning behind the increase of violence in schools. It was hypothesized that this rise in violence is due to the increase of exposure to violence in everyday life. This paper shows that the results of many of these studies show evidence that media and other factors do influence young people to turn to violence as a way to solve their problems. The paper shows that there are many solutions available for aiding in the reduction of this school level violence and argues that the steps need to be taken to place effective policies and actions into effect to curb the increasing violence in schools.

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"Perhaps the only similarity these tragic events share is that violence occurred within a school. A study by the Secret Service and the US Department of Education (DOE) found that student killers do not lend themselves to police profiles because they do not share common traits (Danitz 2000). In most cases the student shooters varied in age. They did not have similar racial, ethnic or family backgrounds. Some were advanced students, while others struggled with academics. Many were loners, but some were very popular (Danitz 2000). The astounding discovery of this study was that most of the attackers did not show any change in their behavior prior to the attack (Danitz 2000)."

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