School Violence Outline

Sentence Outline:

Violence in American schools has triggered debates on the root cause of student’s anger and aggressive behavior and proposed proactive solutions.

I. The initial indicator of the levels of school violence as a detrimental problem was a major increase between 1990 and 2014.

a) According to the National Center for Education Statistics (2011), between 1992 and 2009 there were 14 to 34 homicides among children ages 5 to 18 at school each year.

b) The Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that in 2010, approximately 828,000 nonfatal victimizations occurred at school among students’ ages 12 to 18 years of age.

1. A breakdown includes 470,000 were victims of theft, 359,000 were victims of simple assault and serious violence, CDC (2011).

II. Society has suffered from various factors that are contributors of school violence. These factors are personal, family, school, and environmental.

a) A child may suffer from personal factors such as history of violent behavior, a victim of child maltreatment and attributing hostility towards others is imperative.

1. Due to previous school shootings, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) performed a two years research, Doake, Melissa (2007).

b) Family factors include being exposed to violence, deplorable family functionality, diminutive emotional attachments to parents and poor monitoring of children.

c) Aspects surrounding the school environment as a contributor are association with delinquent peers, extremely low commitment to school, academic failure, lack of discipline, and the lack of the enforcement of school policies.

d) Environmental factors are exposure to the usage of substance abuse and alcohol, poverty and involvement in street gangs.

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...ica performed random metal detector checks on their students, Doake, Melissa (2007).

d) Counselling programs have been available for children with aggressive behaviors and to victims who are exposed to school violence.

e) Staff training has been implemented by schools that suffer a violent tragedy.

1. According to Shah, Nirvi (2013) reported that laws have been adopted to prevent school violence. For example, a Missouri Bill mandated that all school personnel to participate in stimulated active-shooter and intruder response drills that are conducted by law enforcements.

f) Security measures are implemented in schools to prevent school violence.

1. According to Dinkes et al, security cameras have placed into schools to monitor twenty-eight percent of primary schools, forty-two percent of middle schools, and sixty percent of high schools, Doake, Melissa (2007).