Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. ... Violence at school often involves the use of weapons. ... School violence occurs on school property, on the way to or from school, during a school-sponsored event, and on the way to or from a school-sponsored event. ... Regardless of family and community dependence on schools to educate, shelter, and discipline their children, most schools have difficulty playing multiple roles as educators, surrogate parents, social service, or law-enforcement agencies ( Ross, 2012). ... Sometimes after consulting with parent...

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In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. ... In schools with Zero-Tolerance policies, these minor disruptions are handled by law enforcement rather than school faculty, blurring the line between the classroom and the courtroom. ... The general public perceived the epidemic to be the result of lenient laws and many advocated for more punitive practices to be implemented by law enforcement in retaliation. ... These tough-on-crime laws aimed to decrease crime through deterrence effects, h...

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A handgun carried concealed is a great way to offer that protection What gun control advocates can't perceive is that gun control laws are aimed at the legal buying and selling of guns. ... All the gun control laws are not about preventing crime. Law abiding citizens who are armed will prevent crime. ... Those favoring gun control laws claim that such laws would keep more guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals in an increasingly violent world. ... "Gun control laws might be accurately called victim disarmament laws...

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From the horrible incident that occurred at Columbine High School in Colorado, to the everyday incidents of youth violence, it is apparent that the problem of teen violence is definitely growing and not shrinking at all. ... (Time Magazine) The media bombardment that teens are faced with in society distorts the laws of reality, and as one sociologist puts it: "adolescents show little if any concern for the physical injury or harm inflicted for their victims." ... You see them on their way to school with books in one hand and an ice cream cone in another, and you would never know it" (Ohio poli...

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It has been common for the recent years that during school board meeting, discussion usually focus on the students' terrible behaviors in school; this partakes to school violence, vandalism and being disrespectful to authority. ... Corporal punishment is still greatly practiced both at home and in school (Hyman, 1976; Maurer, 1974). ... On 1867, schools in New Jersey were officially banned in doing the corporal punishment. ... Educators are subjected to criminal liability or a civil claim for personal injuries is a law provided since before the American Revolution. ... With regards...

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arents that were prohibited by law to spank them where unaware of consequences. Their ability to judge what would happen after they had assaulted someone had been hindered by the non-spanking law that was passed when they were children. ... There is authority all the way from federal laws to a boss at work. ... A pole done by National Family Violence survey shows a 10% decrease of spanking in the United States since 1950 yet the amount of juvenile violence in school is on the rise (Larzelere 382). ... Parents should prepare their children for instances that that will require respect for au...

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Old English Common Law allowed husbands to beat their wives provided that the stick they used was not thicker than his thumb; hence the phrase "Rule of Thumb"(Heart on a Chain [Video]). Although times have changed in this regard and laws have been enacted in order to protect women from abuse, the fact remains that acts of domestic violence occur every 15 seconds in the United States. ...

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Acts of violence are committed everyday by High school and even Elementary school kids. ... It also has put pressure on government to pass new laws to protect our children from the violence. ... Patrick Daly, Principal of Public School PS51 was making his way through cold and rain to an apartment building complex in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. ... Daly was simply looking for one of his students who earlier that morning had left the school upset because of a fight with a classmate. ... These children were also likely to perform poorly in school and often unpopular with their peers. ...

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Ever since Columbine there is an increase in coverage of school shootings, making it seem commonplace in our communities. ... An example is the Stop and Frisk laws in New York that allows officers to stop anyone who seems suspicious. The law is usually disproportionally enforced on people of color ("Crime in new york city" 2014). ... Using fear as a justifier, it opens the door to laws like Stop and Frisk which begin to infringe on the rights of the individual. ...

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In the article, Young Children's Video/Computer Game Use: Relations with School Performance and Behavior, it shows the results of the study in this article found that playing violent video games did show signs of increased aggression. ...

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Attitudes, beliefs, laws and other social structures which allow or support the power of one group over another, or which allow or support violence, contribute to the problem of sexual violence in society. ...

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Unsurprisingly, violent video games have been mostly demonized in the media, blamed by many for school shootings such as Columbine or Virginia Tech. ... Nevertheless, the adverse effects of video games not only through visual stimuli but also through audio stimuli on individuals' thoughts, individuals obliviously learn to become more aggressive through a process called modeling, and the fact that these negative influence of playing violent video games will have dramatic and long-term effects on individuals when repeatedly exposed strongly suggest stricter law other than rating the game ...

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In various guises, a search for redemption is a common feature of many of the protagonists in Scorsese's films. J.R. (Who's That Knocking at My Door, 1969), Charlie (Mean Streets, 1973), Travis (Taxi Driver, 1975), Christ (The Last Temptation of Christ, 1988), Henry (GoodFellas, 1990), Sam Bowden (Cape Fear, 1991), Sam Rothstein (Casino, 1995), Frank (Bringing Out the Dead, 1999), Amsterdam (Gangs of New York, 2002) or Teddy (Shutter Island, 2010) are just some of the characters in Scorsese's filmography whose stories of redemption constitute the central conflict of their respec...

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