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Submitted by msjuicy on May 23, 2005
Category: Social Issues
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Abstract
School violence remains a serious American problem, especially in America's inner-cities. Mainstream strategies to reduce school violence have focused on combinations of upgrading school security postures (more guards, metal detectors, etc.) and in improving student intervention programs (peer counseling, conflict resolution, etc.). This paper investigates another aspect of school violenceschool cultures of violencethat few schools recognize as a serious problem and that mainstream strategies fail to address. School cultures of violence entail school administrators, teachers, and students becoming socialized into an environment where school violence as a method of student interpersonal relations is tolerated or perhaps considered inevitable. This paper develops, through an ethnographic and survey study of four Miami-Dade public high schools, how school cultures of violence are allowed to exist through a combination of factors that include: (1) school staff discourses of denial that school violence problems exist, (2) non-caring school atmospheres, and (3) remiss school security forces. In those schools with cultures of violence, it is shown how high neighborhood crime rates are allowed to invade the schools, resulting in higher levels of school crime and increased student fear of being victimized in school.
Introduction
I fear going to school one day and a Haitian might don't like me and say "Look at that American, I don't
like that American"
.and they might come over there
they'd be 50 of them jumping [me]
.I feel like I
[might] just walk in and just say the wrong thing and get whooped, get beat down
.They [are] so crazy,
they bring weapons to school, I mean guns, knives, everything, everybody.
Male African-American...
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