School Shootings
Most students at college campuses are worried about exams, homework, social relationships, family, and financial responsibilities. School shootings and school violence are not at the top of the list of concerns for these same individuals. Looking back nine years ago this was also not of concern for the students at the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University that April morning. No one is prepared for tragic events and no one is ever expecting them to happen. They happen in a blink of an eye and leave those affected in shock and in disbelief. Unfortunate circumstances and events raises awareness to the public, researchers, and in this tragic case, students.
On April 16, 2007 in Blacksburg, Virginia the state and the nation …show more content…
There are several theoretical explanations to why school violence is reported today more frequently than before. According to institutional explanations of school disorder, school climate is an explanation to the causes of school violence. The climate of a school includes the unwritten beliefs, values, and attitudes that become the style of interaction between students, teachers, and administrators. School climate sets the parameters of acceptable behavior among all school actors, and it assigns individual and institutional responsibility for school safety. School climates includes factors such as communication patterns and norms about what constitutes appropriate behavior (Welsh W. , 2000). School with violence problems tend to have unclear and unfair rules that are inconsistently enforced and schools where students perceive greater fairness and clarity of the rules have less violence and student victimization. In my opinion this means that a school who has better communication and understanding of the school rules and behaviors are less likely to experience victimization. I believe this to be true to an extent but I also believe there could be more than just the school setting that causes violence. Institutional explanations are not the only explanations that try to explain why violence occur …show more content…
An interesting preventative method that has come to light in the recent years is the biosocial approach. For example, poor nutrition during early childhood increases antisocial behaviors at schools and homes during the elementary school years, even after accounting for genes and shared familial risks among siblings. (Jackson, 2016) The way that I understand this is that nutrition plays an important role in the early development of young children. This approach gives a different perspective of the different ways we can prevent crime before it even becomes issue. Who would have known that simple healthy nutrition plan could prevent antisocial
On April 16, 2007 in Blacksburg, Virginia the state and the nation …show more content…
There are several theoretical explanations to why school violence is reported today more frequently than before. According to institutional explanations of school disorder, school climate is an explanation to the causes of school violence. The climate of a school includes the unwritten beliefs, values, and attitudes that become the style of interaction between students, teachers, and administrators. School climate sets the parameters of acceptable behavior among all school actors, and it assigns individual and institutional responsibility for school safety. School climates includes factors such as communication patterns and norms about what constitutes appropriate behavior (Welsh W. , 2000). School with violence problems tend to have unclear and unfair rules that are inconsistently enforced and schools where students perceive greater fairness and clarity of the rules have less violence and student victimization. In my opinion this means that a school who has better communication and understanding of the school rules and behaviors are less likely to experience victimization. I believe this to be true to an extent but I also believe there could be more than just the school setting that causes violence. Institutional explanations are not the only explanations that try to explain why violence occur …show more content…
An interesting preventative method that has come to light in the recent years is the biosocial approach. For example, poor nutrition during early childhood increases antisocial behaviors at schools and homes during the elementary school years, even after accounting for genes and shared familial risks among siblings. (Jackson, 2016) The way that I understand this is that nutrition plays an important role in the early development of young children. This approach gives a different perspective of the different ways we can prevent crime before it even becomes issue. Who would have known that simple healthy nutrition plan could prevent antisocial