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

• 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.

• 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were more likely to employ physical violence in punishing their children, he did present evidence concerning several outdated propositions.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.

• Informal Social Control

  • External sanctions are enforced by the government to prevent chaos, violence, or anomie in society.
  • In extreme cases, sanctions may include social discrimination, exclusion, and violence.
  • In this scene, a young protagonist is ridiculed and verbally abused by a high school teacher for writing poetry in a mathematics class.

• Sexual Violence

  • Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
  • The most commonly discussed form of sexual violence is rape.
  • Sexual violence has a profound impact on physical and mental health.
  • Sexual violence is severly under reported.
  • This graphic illustrates the magnitude of the underreporting of sexual violence

• Family Violence

  • Family violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one family member against another.
  • 3.3 million children witness domestic violence each year in the US.
  • 3.3 million children witness domestic violence each year in the US.
  • These are known as the psychological effects of domestic violence.
  • These are the financial effects of domestic violence.

• Spousal Abuse

  • The relationship between gender and domestic violence is a controversial topic.
  • Other sources argue that the rate of domestic violence against men is often inflated due to the practice of including self-defense as a form of domestic violence.
  • Determining how many instances of domestic violence actually involve male victims is difficult.
  • Male domestic violence victims may be reluctant to get help for a number of reasons.
  • Domestic violence also occurs in same-sex relationships.

• Formal Means of Control

  • By the "monopoly on violence," Weber means the state is the only institution within a society who can legitimately exercise violence on society's members.
  • Our understanding of formal control is enhanced by social theorist Max Weber's work on the state's use of violence.
  • Weber writes of the definitional relationship between the state and violence in the early twentieth century in his essay "Politics as Vocation. " Weber concludes that the state is that which has a monopoloy on violence.
  • By this, Weber means that the state is the only institution within a society who can legitimately exercise violence on society's members.
  • The formal means of social control and the monopoly on violence serve a similar role in defining the state—they both illustrate the unique relationship between the state and its subjects.

• Peace

  • Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage.
  • rejection of physical violence to obtain political, economic or social goals
  • opposition to violence under any circumstance, including defense of self and others
  • Principled pacifism holds that at some point along the spectrum from war to interpersonal physical violence, such violence becomes morally wrong.
  • Pragmatic pacifism holds that the costs of war and inter-personal violence are so substantial that better ways of resolving disputes must be found.