Essay - How to Prevent School Shootings the Virginia Tech School Shooting...

How to Prevent School Shootings

The Virginia Tech school shooting last year claimed the lives of 33 people. Two months ago alone, seven ***** died from school shootings in E.O. Green School in California (1 dead) and Nor*****rn Illinois University (6 *****). As a result, the United States government went all out to infuse money into programs to study how to prevent school shootings. It is truly a controversial and high pr*****ile subject but the reality is, deaths caused by school ***** through***** the *****s are miniscule compared to underage drinking and driving. Every year a few students are killed at school, but thous*****s die in automobile accidents. Dollars spent to ***** ***** shootings could save far more lives if they were ***** to keep underage drinkers off the road. (Cornell, 2006, pp. 145-146) Several prevention programs can be done ***** educate and make ***** aware of the dangers of drinking and driving. This cannot be a one time effort but a continuous program to inculcate in ***** youth the dangers of alcohol intake and driving a motor vehicle. "Jimmy" would probably be alive today if the "Just Say No" ***** given by the Officer Wilson was repeated in ***** succeeding years - or had there been an outreach program that could help students deal with the temptations of ***** drinking and *****.

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Underage drinking may not only lead to death while driving but it can also lead to alcoholism. There should ***** must be ***** research that will aim to instill in the youth the perils of this matter. In 1996, Congress passed a l*****w requiring the At*****rney General to provide an independent review of the effectiveness of state ********** local crime prevention programs, and spec*****ically to identify factors that would reduce ***** violence (Cornell, *****, p. 146). Several ***** groups took part in ***** study and one of the outcomes is a program similar to ***** mil*****ary's boot camp. Youth offenders were sent to correctional boot ********** to give them a ch*****nce to change but "the graduates of correctional boot camp usually return to the same

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Eventually the boot camp experiment came out lacking in the effectiveness of truly rehabilitating the youth *****. ***** were positive and negative sides ***** ***** boot camp method but in the end, the boot ***** method did not make it to ***** government list of effective prevention models. Another reason that boot camps do not work is ***** the treatment program that bring together groups ***** delinquent youth may inadvertently increase their propensity for ant*****ocial *****havior (Cornell, 2006, p. 149). All is not lost for the boot camp model though because despite lack of evidence in support of juvenile ***** *****, there are still programs of ***** nature that take in youth offenders ***** try to mold them ***** more responsible