This study is designed to explore the causes of juvenile violence at school and its countermeasures, to inquire into main theories focusing on assaulters and victims and its factors, and verify hypotheses related to individual factors, home factors, p...
This study is designed to explore the causes of juvenile violence at school and its countermeasures, to inquire into main theories focusing on assaulters and victims and its factors, and verify hypotheses related to individual factors, home factors, peer factors, school factors and local-community factors.
With this in mind, the researcher examined precedent literature with a view to approaching the causes of school violence on a theoretic basis. Next, the researcher drew up questionnaires to analyze the actual conditions and causes of school violence, working with high-school and middle-school students.
The researcher worked with a total of 308 questionnaires with the exception of inappropriate ones, depending on t-test, one-way ANOVA so as to verifying hypotheses in relation to the main factors of school violence.
The findings can be summarized as follows.
First, 55.8 percent of the subjects turn out to have experience of committing a violence. The frequent assaulting experience of students turn out to be language violence(48.1%), physical violence(30.8), and harassment(16.9%) in the right order. 32.5 percent of student assaulters turn out to commit a collective violence with their friends.
Second, 82.1 percent of school violence turns out to be related to students in terms of assaulters and victims. 10.4 percent of the subjects, both victims and assaulters, join bad circles while 23.7 percent of the subjects, either victims or assaulters, join the circles.
Third, male school violence turns out to be more frequently committed than female school violence in relation to individual factors. The subjects who think lightly of a violence are likely to commit a violence, while the victims turn out to be those who have a lot of pocket money and expensive necessities.
Fourth, the subjects whose parents have less arguments or fights turn out to commit a less school violence in relation to family factors, while the subjects whose parents have more arguments or fights turn out to commit a more school violence.
Fifth, the survey on the differences of school violence in relation to peer factors shows that the students who mix with bad friends are more likely to commit a school violence, and that the more friends fight, the more school violence occurs.
Sixth, the survey on the differences of school violence related to school factors indicates that the more the subjects are exposed to stress related to study or grades, the more school violence occurs and that the more they are exposed to corporal punishment, the more school violence occurs.
Seventh, the survey on the differences of school violence related to the factors of local communities shows that the more the students are exposed to harmful facilities, the more school violence increases.
The researcher can be summarized on the basis of the findings above.
First, it is necessary that the government, juvenile-protection institutions and bodies should come up with measures to prevent school violence and that school violence should be approached by type, method, and violence and so with a view to producing countermeasures to prevent and root out school violence in advance and that the young should form a right view of and an appropriate attitude to school violence and that education or programs for preventing violence should be developed and executed.
Second, it is necessary that parent cooperation should be emphasized and put to use with a view to preventing and rooting out school violence. And cooperation among teachers, schools and the government is of great importance. It is necessary that educational policies focusing on college entrance only and teachers' attitudes toward corporal punishment should be subjected to changes.
Third, formation of friendship with peers is of great importance as far as school violence is concerned and relevant programs should be supported and established with the view of forming and establishing sound friendship or peer culture. The government should monitor and crack down on ill practices doing harm to the young.