School Violence

Examples of School Violence in the following topics:

• Violence in Schools

  • School violence is a serious problem in the United States.
  • A home environment may contribute to school violence if, at home, students are exposed to gun violence, parental alcoholism, domestic violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or harsh parental discipline.
  • Finally, school violence tends to be higher in certain types of schools, the characteristics of which are listed below:
  • School-wide strategies are designed to modify school characteristics associated with violence.
  • Recall the risk factors for school violence in the U:S. and the two types of bullying

• Conclusion: The Effects of Reconstruction

  • The following list describes some schools of thought regarding Reconstruction:
  • The Dunning School considered failure inevitable and felt that taking the right to vote or hold office away from Southern whites was a violation of republicanism.
  • A second school sees the reason for failure as Northern Republicans' lack of effectiveness in guaranteeing political rights to blacks.
  • A third school blames the failure on the freedmen not receiving land so they could have their own economic base of power.
  • A fourth school sees the major reason for failure of Reconstruction as the states' inability to suppress the violence of Southern whites when they sought reversal for blacks' gains.

• Discrimination Based on Sex and Gender

  • Extreme sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence.
  • The United Nations recognizes domestic violence as a form of gender-based violence, which it describes as a human rights violation and a result of sexism.
  • Transgender inequality is the unequal protection and treatment that transgender people face in work, school, and society in general.
  • Transgender people regularly face transphobic harassment and violence.
  • Transgender people are much more likely to experience harassment, bullying, and violence based on their gender identity; they also experience much higher rates of discrimination in housing, employment, healthcare, and education (National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 2010).

• 100 Days of Violence

• Current Research

  • The reason why the assumption that playing violent video games is not accurate is because it decontextualizes violence.
  • Those who claim violent video games lead to violence fail to realize that violence is context dependent and most players of video games are fully aware of this.
  • Individuals who play video games recognize that violence in the context of the game is okay and that it is not okay to be violent outside of that context.
  • Seldom is a connection made between adult shooting sprees in the workplace (which are far more common than school shooting sprees) and video games.
  • There has been a great deal of attention concerning sexual violence on college campuses in recent years.

• Mass Media and Technology

  • This means stories that affect a large number of people on a global scale often receive less coverage in some markets than local stories, such as a public school shooting, a celebrity wedding, a plane crash, or similarly glamorous or shocking stories.
  • Millions of deaths in an ethnic conflict in Africa might be afforded scant mention in American media, while the shooting of five people in a high school is analyzed in-depth.
  • Many people believe that violent video games, when played regularly, lead to real-life violence.
  • In fact, video game violence can lead to an increase in a person's thoughts and behaviors.
  • There have been incidents of children acting out the violence they see in a game, often with dire consequences.

• Legally Free, Socially Bound

  • Coalitions of white and black Republicans passed bills to establish the first public school systems in most states of the South, although sufficient funding was hard to find.
  • Tens of thousands of African Americans from the North left homes and careers and also migrated to the defeated South, building schools, printing newspapers, and opening businesses.
  • While legally the Reconstruction Amendments had granted African Americans certain legal rights, in social practice they remained second-class citizens and were subject to discrimination and violence.
  • In the face of mounting violence and intimidation directed at blacks—as well as whites sympathetic to their cause—the U.S. government retreated from its pledge to guarantee constitutional protections to freed men and women.
  • To reduce black voting and regain control of state legislatures, Democrats had used a combination of violence, fraud, and intimidation since the election of 1868.

• Legislation Protecting against Discrimination

  • It ended unequal application of voter-registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace, and in facilities that served the general public.
  • The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law that initially provided 1.6 billion dollars toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed civil redress in cases prosecutors chose to leave unprosecuted.
  • VAWA also established the Office on Violence Against Women within the Department of Justice.

• Case Studies

• Research Examples

  • Erlanger was interested in a correlation between social class and physical violence.
  • While he did not find a strong correlation indicating lower class individuals were more likely to employ physical violence in punishing their children, he did present evidence concerning several outdated propositions.
  • use of corporal punishment is not part of a subcultural positive evaluation of violence
  • Rosenbaum was interested in the effects of high school tracks on IQ.
  • High school tracks are the different levels or types of courses students can take; for instance, many high schools now include college preparation tracks and general education tracks.