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School Violence

From Encyclopedia of Social Problems
Experts once defined school violence conventionally as a serious crime (i.e., murder, rape, assault, robbery, and theft) that occurred on school grounds. However, as social and political awareness focused more rigorously on investigating the phenomenon of school violence, the definition of school violence expanded. The broadened definition rested on research indicating that the threshold for injury for children is much lower than for adults. Compared to adults, children have less emotional maturity and physical ability to defend themselves, making them more vulnerable to emotional, mental, and physical injury. Therefore, even minimal exposure to violence in a school setting may have lasting detrimental effects on a child’s development. Traditionally, peer harassment (physical and verbal), sexual harassment, bullying, and fear were accepted as school cultural norms. However, such behaviors are becoming less accepted as a normal part of the “school experience.” Detrimental developmental…
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From The Conversation: An Independent Source of Analysis from Academic Researchers
Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of stories from The Conversation’s archive. Students from across the country will march in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. Similar marches will take place elsewhere in the U.S. Organized by survivors of the Parkland school shooting in Florida, the protesters…
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From World of Criminal Justice, Gale
The term, school violence, refers to any hostile crime that takes place in the confines of an educational institution. Examples of school violence are: vandalism , robbery , physical attack, fights with a weapon, sexual battery, rape , suicide , and murder. According to a 1997 report by the National…
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From The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression
The public is naturally concerned about the safety of children attending school, and opinion polls have long shown this concern. Gallup polls show the percentage of parents fearing for their children’s safety in school increased from 24% in 1977 to 55% in April 1999 immediately following the…
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From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies
Violence has taken place in schools throughout recorded history and is experienced in schools across the globe in varying degrees and forms. Though violence can most often connote physical acts, school violence includes a wide range of actions often charged with sexist, homophobic, racist, and…
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From Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy Through Adolescence
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and...
Violence is the use of force or intimidation against another person or group with the express intention of causing physical or emotional harm. School violence is a form of youth violence that occurs on school property or at school-sponsored events, or on the way to school or school events. The issue…
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From Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Generally, violence is the use of force or intimidation against another person or group with the express intention of causing physical or emotional harm. School violence is any activity that creates a disturbance or causes a disruption in or around a school, or pertaining to an educational system. …
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From Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals
A number of highly publicized incidents of school violence in West Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas; Springfield, Oregon; Littleton, Colorado; and Red Lake, Minnesota, occurred, in which guns have been brought into schools and students and teachers have been killed. These incidents have left…
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Full text Article School Violence Prevention

From Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology
School violence prevention involves the application of universal, selected, and indicated evidenced-based programs and procedures in the school setting in order to reduce the incidence of interpersonal violence in all its forms. GLOSSARY bullying Continual infliction of harm or threat of harm, …
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This entry examines the effectiveness of interventions developed to address bullying in schools. The review reveals that most have yet to be empirically validated effectively. Programs that have been evaluated reveal that some do effectively decrease incidents of reported bullying in schools as well…
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Violence among youth is a real concern that many people, organizations, and communities work diligently to combat ( Jimerson & Furlong, 2006 ; McCann, 2002 ). Youth violence takes on many forms from destruction of property to interpersonal assaults. In fact, we can think of interpersonal and…
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