School Violence.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:30:55
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 11 pages (2942 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 11 pages (2942 words)
School violence has become a widespread problem within the last few years. "A 1996 Children's Institute International Poll of American Adolescents revealed that 47 percent of all teens believed their schools were becoming more violent, 10 percent feared being shot or hurt by classmates carrying weapons to schools, and more than 20 percent were afraid to go to restrooms because these unsupervised areas were frequent sites of student victimization" (The US Department of Health and Human Sciences, 2003). School violence
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