The writer explores various causal factors of violent behavior and several different types of programs being implemented to prevent it. Included in the discussion are programs that attempt to intervene during early years and prevent the onset of violence as well as those that come later on in the child's development and seek to obstruct the entry of weapons into schools. Bibliography lists 6 sources. A 12 page examination of violence in our schools and the anti-violence programs which are being implemented to deter it. Special emphasis is placed on one such program in Northwest Florida.
Bibliography lists seven sources.
The paper delves deeply into the many conflicting theories on the causes and solutions of the epidemic of school violence, and concludes that parents, schools, and society share the blame. Bibliography lists 6 sources. An 8 page exploration of the sociological reasons behind school violence. Proposes that children engage in deviant behavior when social controls are either ineffective or absent and that two of these social controls are parental punishment methodologies and the media. Bibliography lists 16 sources.