... First Amendment Rights with expressing themselves. Many parents are worried that the uniforms will cost too much and they will only burden their economic status. Uniforms will either give the school strength or separate the students and parents from the administration. Proponents of uniforms argue that the widespread violence in schools is due largely to gangs. They believe that the distinctive ... to persuade us why this violates our First Amendment rights. Lauren Seigal, who is director of the ACLU Public Education Department, has stated "no one knows for certain whether the school uni...

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... . He should know because he is the principal of Lake Center Middle School in Los Angeles, California. Kommer highlights the middle school adolescents feeling of well-being, parental support, improving school pride, and overall better school atmosphere due to school uniforms. He also gives some advice of how to begin a school uniform policy successfully. The author begins his article by talking about the problem of gang ... didn't solve the gang problem completely, but did create a better atmosphere in his school. Uniform policies are a good opportunity for school's to give adolescents a ...

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... from different backgrounds and distant neighborhoods, which are very different to them. Many schools are seeing a need to stop the violence and are starting to enact discipline codes, conflict mediation, school uniforms, and increased security measures. The most used discipline code has probably been a zero-tolerance policy such as the Gun-Free Schools Act. This was enacted in some form in ... all fifty states to create gun- free schools by suspending or expelling anybody with a gun at school. Some schools have gone further by enacting the same force with all weapons, drugs, and violenc...

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... it has become a big problem in society. Almost three-fourths of United States teens are afraid of violent crime amongst their peers (Lantieri 386). School violence exists due to many causes. One cause could be drugs and gangs. Now that more and more people are selling and buying drugs, people ... revenge for something that has happened to them in the past. There is even the controversial issue of certain films, music and video games provoking school violence. For example, violence in some of our well-known comedy shows, such as Saturday Night Live and Lethal Weapon 3 could be part of .....

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... ones. Schools in Texas cancelled the last two weeks of classes due to repeated bomb threats, but due to parental and community outrage, school officials had to reopen the schools a few days later. Four boys in Michigan were charged with plotting a shooting because someone came forward. ... have learning disabilities. Many schools are now adopting a zero tolerance policy. They are pulling out every student who does anything suspicious. When a school expels a student for writing about violence for an assignment is said to be an overreaction. But is it? Incidents like th boy in Virginia ......

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... are experiencing high levels of youth violence. Some schools have adopted a broad range of solutions to curb the violence. Research suggests that the most promising school violence prevention programs involve at least some of seven characteristics, including a comprehensive approach, starting early and involving parents. Although few prevention programs have been evaluated, ... student fighting. Seventy-one percent of teachers observed less physical violence among the students that participated. Violence-prevention literature and experts consistently associate at least seven characteristi...

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... to experience some sort of gang fights or drugs in their four years of high school. The question everyone wonders while attending high school is whether or not he or she really can get the high school education that they should. No one really can get the high school education anymore because high school is not exactly a safe place to learn anymore. While attending high ... do much about the drug problems. I often heard that they would just ignore it if they saw a student selling drugs. I read or heard news of gang violence that occurred in school, that usually lead to someone's death. M...

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... are no hard facts to confirm those allegations. For that reason, uniforms should not be mandatory in the public school systems. Some arguments against the enforcement of school uniforms are that uniforms are just an extreme measure of the school's dress codes, whether or not school violence would lessen if student were made to wear uniforms, and that uniforms take away a child's First Amendment ... included robberies, vandalism, rapes, stabbing, bombings, shootings, and even cold blooded murders. These crimes were committed by students with problems a lot larger than what they were goin...

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... as people can buy guns they will, legally or illegally. So why not make them childproof store guns in giant aspirin bottles. Bang, bang I was on my school bus arriving at school when I heard this sound, "big deal" I thought someone threw another firecracker on the bus. Then I see everyone pushing to get back on the bus ... will never forget as he screamed in my ear "pop, pop" with his stupid high pitched voice scaring the crap out of me. For bus number 112 school would be canceled that day and I was alright with that, but spending more than half the day talking to police and councilors ...

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... and if we had a uniform policy, it would help increase that number. If somebody unfamiliar started wandering around the school, we'd immediately know that they didn't belong on school grounds. Cases of theft would decrease, which mostly occur due to designer clothing, valuable jewelry, and expensive brand name footwear ... . Gangs would not be permitted to wear their gang colors during school because of the dress code, which would prohibit the display of gang activity. Another reason for uniforms is peer pressure to own the coolest ... the morning because they are embarrassed of the clo...

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... The spread of gangs and drugs has been mixed up with the increase violence of youth students. Experts have also said that most violent conflicts among school-age children can be traced back to long-simmered disputes. Carrying guns and other weapons around schools is becoming more and more popular all around the ... the lack of money. So nobody would be able to buy a weapon. Teachers are in as much danger of being killed or attacked as kids are at school. The risk of a teacher being attacked by a student has doubled since 1956. This is a lot considering that you don't hear about too many ...

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... , which I find very astonishing. Also the use and possession of these illegal substances causes a type of battle ground between the students which alters the atmosphere creating violent acts. Nevertheless, preventing school violence doesn't stop at preventing easy access to weapons. Many schools have added curricula to educate children about their feelings and how to resolve conflicts without resorting to violence, which ... I think is a good idea. Secondly, I think we should step up security measures to make the students feel safe in the school, even if we have to screen visitors by ask...

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... others. I am interested in this issue because I believe that greater discipline in schools will decrease the student violence and the growing crime rate. School dropout rates have been continuously increasing for a long time. This may be a result of innocent students being mentally and physically bullied in schools. ... I would like to see young teenagers enjoy their education and to leave high school with a firm foundation for college and soaring dreams for their futures. I am sure that all parents desire success and the best in everything for ... that students do not enjoy serving t...

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A new social problem that is starting to become very serious in America is school violence. Ever since the shootings at Colorado's Columbine High School, the media has paid a great deal of attention to violent acts in schools. In the August 29th issue of Newsweek an article titled "Creative Writing "or Criminal ... Robertson's two-page writing, what he called "literary art."" Brian wrote out a descriptive scenario sounding like a military commander's order to student terrorists on how to take on the school. Although no plot or characters were named in the instructions the content of the pape...

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... the numbers immediately began to rise. Unwed women 15-19 years of age showed a phenomenal increase of 200% in the rate of pregnancies after the School Prayer decision. (CE) The United States now has the highest incidence of teen-age motherhood in any Western country. (CE) Abortion has also risen ... has risen over 500%. (CE) D. For the 15-19 and 20-24 age group, the rates of youth suicide remained relatively unchanged until the School Prayer decision in 1962. But in the years since, suicides among the same group have increased 253%, or an average of 10.5% per year. ( ... from making/s...

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... schools; it not only hinders the educational process, but also creates unnecessary burden on children. The use of the National Government's budget surplus to fund law enforcement for nationwide public school districts on a permanent basis. Although it would be costly, this would allow local law enforcement to safeguard schools in their respective districts. Depending on the size of each district, size ... of the school, and severity of crime in the school, officers would be assigned on a permanent basis to maintain as safe an environment as possible. As of now, other proposals and acts ...

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... he had discovered while arriving at the scene. The time the incident is reported is1:00 A.M. on July 6th, 2002. There has been no past history of prior events or reports to this address and the neighborhood appears to be a quiet community with a larger amount of elderly and retired citizens. The arriving officer informs me that there was a robbery in progress ... to ensure the timely flow of pertinent information for the crime. The focus of the scene appears to be the living room where the body of a 35-year-old parochial school teacher is found. Working outward from our focal point I in...

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... due to a variety of different reasons, possibly this officer is single and is looking for a life partner or maybe they might have gone to high school together. The problem here is that the officer has some connection either from the past or possibly an attempt for a future relation, in turn making ... aim of blending values into practical training. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department adopted a policy whereby it can classify police reports as secret, according to the Nevada Press Association (NPA). The NPA said that the department has broad discretion to list police officers ... "...

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... During this time, the number of drug law violation cases increased 169%, public order offense cases increased 74%, and person offense cases increased 55%" (p. 1). According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, juveniles were responsible for 16% of all arrests in 1992 (Allen-Hagen, 1992, p. 1). In a breakdown of individual crimes, the report shows that juveniles were involved in 15% of murder ... that the 8% of at-risk offenders could be identified by their involvement of crime at an early age, as well as a multi-problem profile including significant family problems, problems at school, dr...

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... probationary Police Officer assigned to a patrol unit performs basic duties such as responding to the scene of a crime or an accident, interviewing suspects and witnesses, filling out crime reports, and responding to radio calls. A Police Officer assigned to a specialized division or as a Desk Officer performs all of the aforementioned duties in addition to performing duties that are ... to these specialized divisions. For example, a Police Officer may be assigned to Juvenile Narcotics Division to conduct undercover narcotics investigations or patrol the school area to monitor criminal a...

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... what I feel has brought my peers into these situations. • First, youth experience a sense of alienation and powerlessness because of a lack of traditional support structures, such as family and school. This can lead to feelings of frustration and anger, and a desire to obtain support outside of traditional institutions. • Second, gang membership gives youth a sense of belonging and becomes a ... presence are twice as likely to report that they fear becoming victims of violence, than their peers at schools without gangs (Trump, 1993). Moreover, a 1992 Bureau of Justice Statistics surve...

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... an adult and is serving three life terms. December 1997 in West Paducah Kentucky three students are killed and five wounded while praying in a school hallway. 14-year-old student Michael Carneal is arrested and plead guilty but mentally ill. Carneal was sentenced Dec. 17 to live in prison ... for 25 years. Jonesboro, Arkansas March 24 1998, four girls and a teacher are shot and 10 others wounded during a false fire alarm at a middle school. 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11 year-old Andrew Golden killed four classmates and a revered teacher were found guilty of capitol murder. But bec...

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... 1984. On that date, the death penalty for juvenile offenders was an obscure issue in law as well as in political and social arenas. These reports have been with us (1) through the intense litigation of the late 1980s, (2) through our society's near hysteria about violent juvenile crime in the ... on the United States to abandon this practice, and (4) now into a revitalized movement to finally end this practice. The solitary goal of these reports is to collect in one place the best available data and information on the death penalty for juvenile offenders (defined as those under age 18 .....

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... prisons to meet the number of offenders. A country has yet to succeed in building enough prisons. A new prison costs an average of 60 million dollars. Capitol costs of a new primary school are only 1.5 million dollars, and a secondary is only 8 million dollars. This is a huge expense for the tax payers, especially when they do not benefit from it. While prisoners are in ... found in high crime areas because it is issued over those who need a higher level of control. This may also vary in time from 3 months to 3 1/2 years, based on the reports taken from the probation officer. If the you...

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... devising means by which to reduce variance within the system, the most recent, and probably most contentious, is that of Paul Butler, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, and former Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia. Butler's thesis, published in an article in the Yale Law Journal, is that "for pragmatic and political reasons ... that discrimination must be proved through demonstration of intent, and not just results. This disparity is reflected in the number of Black death row inmates. The NAACP Legal Defense fund repor...

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