枪支暴力与自杀率与美国侵略性外交政策的关系
虽然美国自杀式枪支流行病的原因复杂多变,但很显然,一个团体对统计数据的贡献高于所有其他人:军事退伍军人。
学校是学生枪杀案数量少于3%的地方;另外97%发生在学校以外的某个地方。
作者 Mike Males
Every day, 42 Americans die in gun homicides, the grim backdrop against which to talk about school shootings. In the three months between the 10 shot dead in Santa Fe, Texas, on Friday, and the 17 in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, around 4,000 Americans lost their lives in firearms homicides. In the initial horror following a school shooting, we
Mike Males is a senior researcher for the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, San Francisco.
School shootings are a symptom of a very large, very dangerous problem. They are not simply a symptom of a need for gun control, or a symptom of a lack of accessible mental health services, or a symptom of an over-medicated, desensitized youth population.
While the outrage and horror being expressed about the most recent mass school shooting that took place on Valentine’s Day in Florida is certainly warranted, the anger is incredibly displaced. Anger, disappointment, fear and sadness are all acceptable and understandable emotions to experience after an event such as this takes place
The first three weeks of 2014 have seen seven school shootings across the country.
Last year was supposed to be a year of action to curb gun violence in our schools. But three weeks into the new year, statistics suggest that the problem could actually be worsening. Though the sample size is far too small to draw any definitive conclusions, 2014 is off to a deadly start: in the first 14 school days of the year, there have been
Are drunk driving, school shootings, glorification of Italian-American gang violence, child abuse and white-collar crime evidence of the crisis among Whites?
Former Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, during a recent speech, decided to dispense some tough love to a predominantly White audience when he voiced his concerns about the state of affairs in American White communities.
"The epidemic of Whites students involved in drunk-driving incidents is deplorable,"
At one school, a renaissance is underway. At another, a chemistry student finds herself facing felony charges.
In two different parts of the country, two different schools are taking two different approaches to student safety and are getting radically different results.
In Roxbury, Mass., Orchard Gardens was built to be a showplace for the Boston neighborhood. When built in 2003, the
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