Kids and Violence

The Invisible School Experience

Catherine Dulmus, Karen Sowers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136428630
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Implement prevention interventions and policies to curb the cycle of violence in our schools!Kids and Violence: The Invisible School Experience examines overt and covert violence occurring in the school setting involving students, school personnel, and school policy, and highlights a level of violence that is often hidden, ignored, or subtly tolerated. This book provides the latest research findings on various issues of violence in our schools. It also shows what happens when the adults responsible for the well-being of our children are actually perpetrating violence, staying silent about violence, or upholding a system that supports a violent atmosphere.Kids and Violence is unique in its holistic and systemic approach of examining types of violence that are often overlooked or endorsed by school policies. The book includes 11 chapters focusing on issues such as bullying, school personnel's role in violence, and prevention programs. The contributors are experts in their fields and include professors, deans, and directors of university social work schools. Kids and Violence presents the results of an exploratory study that examines self-identified bullies and addresses issues of immediate and vital importance, including:

• bullying among students, grades 3-8, in a rural school district
  
• observations by school personnel on bullying among elementary and middle school students
  
• corporal punishment as a cultural norm in the United States and its impact on discipline in our schools
  
• solution-focused crisis intervention with adolescents
  
• bullying of children and other abuses of power by school personnel
  
• adolescent dating violence in the school setting
  
• and much more!

It is time to stop the harmful cycle of violence in our schools. This valuable resource serves as a call for immediate action, showing social workers and policymakers how to provide leadership in researching, developing, and delivering empirically-based prevention interventions and policies.

Index

Abuse, childhood, dating violence and, 149-151

Abuse of power, 111-129

background and principles, 112-118

data analysis, 120

data collection, 119-120

discussion and recommendations, 124-127

history of abuser, 126

limitations of study, 124

locations, 124, 125, 126

methodology, 118-120

physical vs. emotional, 125-126

prevalence, 125

reporting, 125

results, 120-124

sample, 118-119

study design, 118

types of bullying, 122-123

Adolescents, solution-focused crisis intervention, 93-110. See also Solution-focused crisis intervention

Adult offenses, bullying and risk of, 90

Age, 9. See also Grade level

abuse of power and, 122

delinquent behavior and, 81

Aggression in the Schools: Bullies and Whipping Boys (Olweus), 160-161

Aggressiveness, dating violence and, 145-146

Anxiety

dating violence and, 148

in victims, 114-115

Attention-deficit disorder (ADHD)

in bullies, 114

in victims, 115

Attitudes, toward corporal punishment, 63-64

Attitudinal characteristics

bullies vs. nonbullies, 166

criminal bullies, 86

personnel, 121

Awareness, 21

personnel, 25-43, 48 (See also Personnel awareness)

BRAVE peer mediation project, 182

Bullies

attitudinal characteristics, 166

attitudinal characteristics of criminal, 86

characteristics of, 161-162

criminal characteristics of, 80-81

as models, 171

personnel as, 116-118

personnel’s communication with, 55

psychiatric disorders in, 114-115

self-perception, 159-174 (See also Self-perception)

types of, 79

Bullying. See also individual subtopics

as abuse of power, 115-116

attention-deficit disorder in, 114

characterization as criminal, 81

criminal, 77-92

See also Criminal bullying; Deliquency

as criminality, 80

definition, 47, 50, 112-113

effects of, 20, 21, 114-115, 171

frequency, 13, 14-17, 169

gender and, 5-24

as global phenomenon, 78...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Introduction
• Bully-Victimization Related to Gender and Grade Level: Implications for Prevention Efforts
• School Personnel’s Observations of Bullying and Victimization Among Rural Elementary and Middle School Children
• Kids–Parents–School Personnel: Few Are Talking and Even Less Are Listening
• Corporal Punishment: Another Form of School Violence
• The Criminal Bully–Linking Criminal Peer Bullying Behavior in Schools to a Continuum of Delinquency
• A Solution-Focused Approach to Crisis Intervention with Adolescents
• Abuse of Power: When School Personnel Bully Students
• “Hotspots” for Bullying: Exploring the Role of Environment in School Violence
• Adolescent Dating Violence on School Campuses
• Perceptions of Bullying and Non-Bullying Children: Results from an Exploratory Study in a U.S. Rural School
• School-Based Violence Prevention Programs: A Review of Selected Programs with Empirical Evidence
• Index