In today's society there is a national trend of disorder and delinquency starting to develop in all of the nations" schools. There are many different issues involving the problems with violence in schools. Emotional and psychological problems, as well as other issues, that society neglects in young students causes a dramatic effect on the outcome of a student's work in many various ways. The problems can cause them to lash out in violence and or be disruptive in class, which are all part of the problem violence in school. Society created all of the problems that are associated with "violence in school" and now can't live with it! Society's issue with school violence can only be blame on the nation for having students to work and grow up in harsh environments. The media has really turned the violence in our schools into a growing concern for our nations" parents. Since the 1970's there has been a growing increase of violence in school, and now in the 1990's it!.
's seemed to thrive.
In the early 1970's there was a variety of problems with the inner-city schools and it has seemed to finally spread to the urban and rural areas in the early 1990's. In "School Violence" the author, Deborah L. Kopka, writes about how in the 1970's violence was really not perceived as a problem until the media enhanced the issue with all their glare and spotlight. From the beginning of the 1970's decade their was an increased number of juvenile arrests for violent crimes. Violent crimes include, such actions as robbery with a deadly weapon, murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault and other indecent acts that intermingled as a part of society. In 1987 to 1992 there was an increase of violent crimes nationally and "Juveniles were responsible for about one in eight violent crimes in 1992" (Kopka 2). In the 1990's, school violence seemed to grow under the watchful eye of media, while its viewers, society, seem to do nothing but look at the reality that they only had to face in their television sets.