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Alcohol, the accessibility of weapons, race, inadquate families and communities all contribute to violence in schools. Mediation, protecting staff and students, and anger management courses are some ways violence in schools can be reduced.
Violence is a very important issue that is coming to the front in today's school systems. School violence is a 'complex social policy problem' and is considered very complicated and hard to define. My paper is on school violence and the methods in which the government and schools can provide support and/or programs to help stem the recent rash of incidents. These steps include: use of 'less violent' materials, peer mediation interventions, police presence and action, individualizing of the troublemaker(s), safety measures [in schools, and at home], and raising deviancy awareness. Through using these methods, hopefully we can start to stem the amount of, and types of violence that has been ruling the schoolyards these days. It is important to provide for these changes, so that the youth of today can become safer.
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