Skip to main content
Taylor & Francis Group Logo
Advanced Search

Click here to search books using title name,author name and keywords.

  • Login
  • Hi, User  
    • Your Account
    • Logout
Advanced Search

Click here to search books using title name,author name and keywords.

Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages.

Chapter

Involving the Whole School in Violence Prevention

Chapter

Involving the Whole School in Violence Prevention

DOI link for Involving the Whole School in Violence Prevention

Involving the Whole School in Violence Prevention book

Involving the Whole School in Violence Prevention

DOI link for Involving the Whole School in Violence Prevention

Involving the Whole School in Violence Prevention book

BookPreventing Violence in Schools

Click here to navigate to parent product.

Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2001
Imprint Routledge
Pages 18
eBook ISBN 9781410600202

ABSTRACT

Televised pictures of students who have killed their school fellows with handguns; newspaper stories of a teacher disarming a student in the classroom; and telephoned bomb threats that close down schools for searching, while students shiver on sidewalks and in parking lots, watching; all these foster a belief that public schools are no longer safe. What has happened to cause these events? In 1993, John E.Richters of the National Institute of Mental Health wrote: “In a few short years the widespread availability and use of handguns has transformed childhood into something quite foreign to what most adults can recall of their own childhoods” (Richters, 1993, p. 3). By 1993, those who lived in the cities understood the effect of handguns on adolescents, especially those drawn into the traffic of illegal drugs. However, it was not until 1997-1998 that the nation at large became aware of just how far childhood, for all children, had been transformed by them. During those years, headline news on television and in newspapers across the country announced that, in a series of incidents, boys

had shot to death several people at schools in Pearl, Mississippi, West Paducha, Kentucky, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and Springfield, Oregon. The killing did not stop in 1998. Similar incidents, some perpetrated by even younger boys, have occurred since then each year.

T&F logoTaylor & Francis Group logo
  • Policies
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Cookie Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Cookie Policy
  • Journals
    • Taylor & Francis Online
    • CogentOA
    • Taylor & Francis Online
    • CogentOA
  • Corporate
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
  • Help & Contact
    • Students/Researchers
    • Librarians/Institutions
    • Students/Researchers
    • Librarians/Institutions
  • Connect with us

Connect with us

Registered in England & Wales No. 3099067
5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG © 2021 Informa UK Limited