on or anger, and self-isolation from family and friends (Futrell 5). School violence is also taking place with different types of weapons. Since 1997, an increase in guns being used to carry out violent acts in schools has increased three percent (Volokh 14). In 2000, it was shown that in violent acts in school, knives or razors were used fifty-five percent of the time, clubs or baseball bats twenty-five percent of the time, and firearms twenty percent of the time (Volkoh 11). Inner-city school students report carrying a weapon in school twenty-five percent of the time, and forty-four percent reported carrying weapons out of school (Gerson 21). Weapons being brought to school have become a real concern for school administrator’s and parents. Many schools have placed police officers full time on school grounds. The full-time presence of law officials, while rare at elementary schools (one percent), was found in ten percent of middle schools and nineteen percent of high schools (Volkoh 6). It was also reported in thirty-nine percent of large schools with 1,000 or more students, in thirteen percent of city schools and schools with fifty percent or more minority enrollment, in fifteen percent of schools in which principals felt there were some serious discipline issues, and in twenty three percent of schools in which at least one serious crime was reported in 1996-97 (Futrell 3). With all the school violence going on in the United States little has been done to prevent it from occurring. Researchers began to take a hard look into school violence once the Columbine shooting took place on March 20, 1999 (Kipnis 38). Since the Columbine shooting, school boards have been addressing the problem of school violence through multiple approaches: education; prevention; and intervention of both the staff and students (Kipnis 94). Early intervention is believed to be the best approach to preventing school violence (Kipnis 16). Early inte...
