Youth Violence in Schools

YOUTH VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS

BY

SAMIRA A. GARNER

AIU

YOUTH VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS

ABSTRACT

Today, violence among our youth is out of hand. The statistics of someone getting bullied or committing suicide, because someone is picking on them, go up everyday. The training to prevent such things should start at home with the parents. Counseling and programs will help our youth to understand, violence isn’t the way to go. As a result, the statistics will deplete instead of increase when parental involvement is stepped up.

YOUTH VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS

Statistics of kids being killed or committing suicide is skyrocketing. This is not good for the future. Without the children, the world will not exist in the future. If you have a bully for every other person, and they can’t handle it or stand up to them, then we have a definite problem. We as adults should step up and make sure we talk to our kids on a daily basis to keep up with what’s going on in their lives.

Examples of school violence are: vandalism, robbery, physical attack, and fights with a weapon, sexual battery, rape, suicide and murder. In World of Criminal Justice, Gale, (2002). This is becoming frequent in their lives. Our focus is to stop all of these types of violent things from happening in our schools and communities.

In the decade extending from roughly 1983 to 1993, an epidemic of violence, often lethal behavior broke out in this country, forcing millions of young people and their families to cope with injury, disability and death. This epidemic left lasting scars on victims, perpetrators, and their families and friends. It also wounded entire communities and in ways not yet fully understood, the United States as a whole (Cook & Laub, 1998). Weapons, and firearms in particular, are widely available in the United States and are at the heart of youth

YOUTH VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS

violence. Many schools and communities through - out the nation have identified weapon-carrying among...