BABIES KILLING BABIES
PSY 1012
Mrs. Paskins
National Institute of Mental Health: Thinking About Violence in Our Schools
Office of The Surgeon General: Youth Violence
Tamara Santiago
October 24, 2001
Two teenagers entered a high school in Colorado and opened fire on their classmates. The young gunmen end their lives, but not before taking the lives of fifteen students, and injuring twenty, finalizing the tragedy. In recent years we have experienced a rampage of violence in our schools. Researchers have yet to pinpoint the answer to this plague of violent disorders. The National Institute of Mental Health, and The Office of the Surgeon General have focused their research to the areas of stages of violence development, prevention and intervention, and methods of identifying the most effective treatments.
Studies by the Office of the Surgeon General have concluded that there are two paths for the materialization of youth violence. One is identified at......
Join Now or Login to view the rest of this paper.
Approximate Word Count: 2018
Approximate Pages: 8 (260 words per double-spaced page) |