Prevention of multiple forms of violence in schools.

This article is based on studies into the prevalence of various forms of violence among students. The youngsters involved are in public schools and range in age from 11 to 15 years. The investigation was conducted on a group of 288 youngsters at random. A questionnaire was utilized to investigate the various forms of violence among youngsters. The categories of violence investigated included physical, psychological, and sexual violence. Physical violence was found out to be common among those involved in the study having an 85.4%. Psychological violence and sexual violence had a prevalence of 62.5% and34.7% respectively.

The study is subjected to bias on the accuracy of the findings. This is because of the involvement of adolescents aged between 16 to 18 years yet it was only for children who are aged 11 to 15 years. Some students may not also disclose the actual truth they face. This is because some may fear that others will know the type of violence he/she has faced. For instance, one may fear to indicate that she was sexually abused.

Bushman, B. J., Newman, K., Calvert, S. L., Downey, G., Dredze, M., Gottfredson, M., ... & Romer, D. (2016). Violence among youths: What we know and what we need to know. American Psychologist, 71(1), 17.

The article is based on youth violence. It discusses the things that are known and not known about youth violence. Youth violence is rampant and the article suggests that there are factors that will trigger a youth to get involved in violence and eventually shoot another individual. It argues that factors such as access to guns, exposure to violent media and mental problems may cause youth violence. Family can also influence a youth to either participate in youth violence or not. The article also suggests that to prevent youth violence; exposure to drug abuse, guns, and violent media needs to be limited.

The article is informative as it well describes youth violence. This is in consideration of the school shooting and street shooting. Furthermore, discussing the causes and factors that might have led to the existence of youth violence is also well described. It is also important to make prevention of youth violence a national priority to prevent school tragedies.

Finkelhor, D., Vanderminden, J., Turner, H., Shattuck, A., & Hamby, S. (2016). Situations of violence and victimization. Journal of school violence, 15(1), 67-90.

The article is based on a survey that analyses the condition at which there are violence and victimization exposure in schools. Those involved in the survey where both the youth and children whose ages range between 5 to 17 years. The survey was conducted through telephone and the survey lasted for about 55 minutes. In a situation that the child was too young to answer the survey, a caregiver of the child was required to answer instead of the child. The findings of the survey indicated that 48% of the population used have been involved in a form of victimization while at school. These forms are bullying, theft, sexual assault, harassment, and vandalism.

The process in which this article dealt with victimization and violence of the youth while at school is amazing. This is because it gives a clear description on which type of violence of victimization was faced. This includes bullying, vandalism, sexual assault or vandalism.

Malette, N. (2017). Fighting Forms: A Micro-Social Analysis of In-School Violence and Bullying. Canadian Journal of Education,40(1), 1.

This journal focuses on the research on the forms of fighting using the micro-social analysis approach. It tests the forms of fighting such as retaliatory violence, bullying, group fights and scapegoating. In analyzing this forms of fighting that are experienced in- school, methods such as the social status of the victim and the offender and ratio of the aggressor to victims are considered. Recruitment was done by the volunteers for the study as posters were used to indicate the aims and purpose of the study. The results obtained from 15 participants who had an average age of 16 confirmed that there is the existence of youth violence.

The research provided accurate results because each of the participants was interviewed individually. This results in accuracy because each of the individuals has different views and getting different views of each participant is useful. Getting volunteering participants is also important for an accurate finding because each participant is willing and aware of the study.

Knoll, J & Pies, R. (2016). Mounties, Cowboys, and Avengers: The cultural script of gun violence. Psychiatric Times.

The article discusses on the mass shooting in the United States. It argues that mass shooting has been rampant and it has been majorly believed by many that it has been contributed by those who have mental disorders. The article shows that mental disorder is not the actual cause of the mass shooting. This is because there is lack of actual data to prove that it is caused by mental illness. Factors such as substance abuse and inadequate treatment lead to a mass shooting in the article. The article also discusses on depression faced by a psychiatrist. The article also argues that the youth needs to be educated on the way they can control, identify and own their anger to prevent any violence.

The article clearly shows that mental illness is just a situation that one can control. Furthermore, it describes the way of controlling depression. This is important because it will prevent future gun violence as every individual will fight depression.