School Safety has been a long standing problem in the United States and each year it doesn’t seem to get any better. In recent years there have been an increase in homicide and suicide rates among children in the United States, with about 242 homicides and 43 suicides from ages 5 to 19 year olds. There is also the problem with the increase of illicit drugs onto school campuses, in 1991 among the different grade levels in high school the drug use has tremendously increased in a span of 10 years. With freshman being the lowest, their drug use increased from 11 percent to 17 percent in 2001, Sophomores 21 percent to 34 percent, and Seniors grew from 29 percent up to 41 percent of students using illicit drugs on campuses in the United States. …show more content…
Due to the rise in juvenile crime rate in the 1990s, many communities in different states have been able to pass more strict rules for future parents and their responsibility for their child. Statistics from the NCJJ (National Center for Juvenile Justice), 34 different state in the United States had set laws that made the parents liable to the crime victim, from their own children under the age of 18. Even now, with 39 state setting laws to make the parents of delinquent children interact with different treatment programs, counseling programs, or even a probation from their own child. Many lawmakers and legislature have made curfews in a number of different cities around the United States, to hopefully reduce the numbers of violence and crime that have been committed by a minor. These curfews have been around for minors since around the late 19th century to reduce the number of crimes committed by immigrant children. Different cities in different states, when the time is needed for control over juveniles the cities will pass curfew as a public regulation. Thanks to the rising rate in the 1980s and 1990s of juvenile violence and crimes, in the United States alone had over 1,000 jurisdictions have been …show more content…
It is a non-profit organization that holds a conference every year that will add different workshops on various prevention measures. This organization also direct these surveys on their own members to find out more about issues that are recent and that affect different schools. From one of their surveys in 2003 about 70 percent of members had some kind of concerns that elementary students have increasingly became more violent and aggressive in the past few years. Another program is the Big Brothers Big Sisters, for over 100 years this program has been useful for mentoring youth from kids 5 years old to 18 year old adults in the united States. The organization supported assistance to over 200,000 juveniles from over 470 different correctional facilities. The organization also provided a one on one mentoring sessions for the juveniles for either school work, avoiding bad substances like drugs and alcohol, and helping improve the juveniles relationships with their families and friends, and even the avoidance from violence and committing another crime. The organization's main program is when a child is matched up with an adult who then spends time with the child throughout the each month, making the older people or the “Bigs” help the children which are called the Littles” be going to parks, playing sports, going to the museum, etc. This experience with the Bigs and Littles help the children gain