As violence increases, the pressure for a safe and orderly school does the same. I believe that the first step that we can make to ensure school safety is to work with the students and explain that it takes everyone to establish a safe school. Violence in school has changed from bloody noses to pulling out a bloody gun and shooting an innocence person. , Children are so desensitized to violence from TVs, video games, and especially their environment. Young teenagers tend to imitate what they see exposing them to violence before they can understand it does not help them Violence just destroys their future by ending up in prison or the grave at an early age.
Deindividuation is to lose ones sense of one’s own individuality and identity. An example of this would be in a crowd, where the individual becomes part of the group gangbang, such as in a school play ground. There is evidence of deindividuation within educational institutions. Bullying is one example, it is common in many schools. Blyth 1980 studied 13 year old children both in junior high and elementary schools.
In this article, we shall evaluate the effectiveness of the measures that have been taken to control the children and adolescents who have a high risk of future offending. According to researchers, there has been a lot of arrests of young children and adolescents. Law enforcement in the United States for example arrested 2.4 million children aged 18 years and below. This was a 18% of all arrests made, 33% of all property crimes and 17% of the criminal activities that were committed that year (Snyder, 1999). More significant is that cases of cases of youthful offenders are on the rise on among the young female compared to their male counterparts and this situation is raising an alarm (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1999).
In 2008 House Bill 91 was enacted in Kentucky. This act, “Requires school districts to have procedures for reporting and assisting students engaging in disruptive and disorderly behavior, including assault, harassment, intimidation, or bullying of another student. Also requires a strategy for protecting from retaliation” (NCSL, 2014). This bill was specifically enacted, but not limited, to focus on, “students who are victims of felony offenses” (education.ky.gov, 2008). The violence in our school systems, as a nation, has been increasing significantly.
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Web. 11 June 2012. Judith Warner wrote an articled titled “Parents Created This Problem, and Must Address It,” where she tackles the continually dangerous and rising issue of students who are using drugs to make them focus in school and on school work. The drugs being abused are most commonly Ritalin and Adderall, which is medication prescribed to people with A.D.H.D., but however are being used by a countless number of students. Warner argues that this is very dangerous to kids and the pressure of parents on their kids to do well in school
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Client’s Name 24 September 2007 Professor’s Name Course # Youth Gang Membership: Reasons to Join Introduction: Focus on Rehabilitation & Preventing Recidivism In the increasing debate of child criminals and their proneness towards crime, there exists the issue of rehabilitation. In point of fact the entire issue of juvenile delinquency hinges upon the ability of the offender to re-enter society not as a criminal but as a changed individual ready to become a working part of society. In the questions that arise from the concern over juvenile delinquency the recurring question is this: Are children who commit crimes rehabilitated by the juvenile court system, or are they more likely to commit criminal acts as adults? In
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School Bullying Dianna Rumsey Honors English Mrs. Watters May 10, 2013 “70% of middle school and high school students experience bullying in school,” (School Bullying).School bullying has become a growing epidemic throughout today’s society. There are multiple types of bullying that include physical, verbal, emotional, and homophobic. Bullying is happening in every age group but more directly in high schools. Boys and girls have different clarifications of bullying. Boys tend to do more physical bullying while girls are guilty for verbal bullying.