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School Violence in America: Why and What Now? (2008) Retrieved October 30, 2009 from [] Violent and bloody acts have plagued U.S. schools in recent years. Teenagers in Junior High and High Schools have been lashing out at their peers and teachers, gunning down tens of people, injuring and killing them. Since 1992, there have been 220 violent deaths on school grounds, an average of 37 per year (there have been 34 this year so far). This has caused concern and panic among Americans. From psychologists to criminal analysts, Oprah to the average layman, we are all talking and we are all shocked.

Diagnosing Teen Violence (2009) Retrieved October 30, 2009 from [] One in four youths have used a gun or knife or have been in a situation where someone was injured by a weapon in the past year, according to a large national study of adolescents. The survey funded by 18 federal agencies and analyzed by researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School also found that teen-agers who are failing school and "hanging out" unsupervised with friends are at the highest risk of a number of dangerous behaviors. But it also said that behavior such as smoking, drinking, premarital sex and acts of violence cannot necessarily be correlated to youngsters' racial and economic backgrounds.

Teens are victims of violence, murder and crime (2009) Retrieved October 30, 2009 from []  Teenagers and young adults were more likely to become victims of violent crime than older persons. In 1998, about a third of all victims of violent crime were ages 12 to 19 and almost half of all victims of violence were under age 25. The percent of students reporting street gang presence at school nearly doubled between 1989 and 1995, increasing from 15.3% to 28.4%. Homicide is the second leading cause of death for persons 15-24 years of age and is the leading cause of death for African-American and Hispanic youths in this age.

Dramatic increase (2009) Retrieved Ocotober 30, 2009 from <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidifontweight: bold; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msobidithemefont: minor-bidi; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">[] The number of violent deaths involving students in the nation's third-largest school district has increased so dramatically in the last two years that police are increasing school patrols and soon will be the first department in the country with live access to thousands of security cameras mounted outside and inside schools. Chicago Public Schools is one of the only urban districts to track how many students are killed by guns, though none of the slayings have occurred on school property. Nationally, homicide was the second-leading cause of death for young people ages 10 to 24 in 2004, and of those killed, 81 percent were killed with a firearm, according to the Centers for Disease. Type in the content of your page here.