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School violence. School violence includes violence between school students as well as attacks by students on school staff and attacks by school staff on students. It encompasses physical violence, including student-on-student fighting, corporal punishment; psychological violence such as verbal abuse, and sexual violence, including rape and ...
The issue of school speech or curricular speech as it relates to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution has been the center of controversy and litigation since the mid-20th century. The First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech applies to students in the public schools. In the landmark decision Tinker v.
School bullying, like bullying outside the school context, refers to one or more perpetrators who have greater physical strength or more social power than their victim and who repeatedly act aggressively toward their victim. [2][3] Bullying can be verbal or physical. [2][3] Bullying, with its ongoing character, is distinct from one-off types of ...
School violence prevention through education is the attempt to reduce violence and bullying through comprehensive approaches and interventions within the education sector. It aims to create a safe and non-violent learning environment. Acceptable practices include strong leadership; a safe and inclusive school environment; developing knowledge ...
95–96% of perpetrators of school firearm violence have been male. [19] [17] The median age of a perpetrator of a school shooting is 16. [2] People of all races commit gun violence in schools, however the nature of these incidents differ by race. White perpetrators commit disproportionately deadly assaults, these are often mass, indiscriminate ...
According to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, school violence is a serious problem. [1] [2] In 2007, the latest year for which comprehensive data were available, a nationwide survey, [3] conducted biennially by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and involving representative samples of U.S. high school students, found that 5.9% of students carried a weapon (e ...
The Journal of School Violence is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the study of school violence. It was established in 2002 and was originally published by Haworth Press, [ 1] but is now published by Taylor & Francis ' subsidiary Routledge. [ 2] The editors-in-chief are Ryan W. Randa ( Sam Houston State University) and Brad ...
Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, or non-human life, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction. [1] Some definitions are somewhat broader, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened [2] or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which ...