Violence in schools
Violence in schools is not a new social phenomenon. Not isolated in some social
systems, but rather spread into all aspects of reality. In this context,
violence in schools reflects or (re) produces the wider social and family
violence. The school violence associated with social exclusion, not a linear
causal relationship, but in a dynamic interactive process.
The groups included social exclusion steadily groups «high risk» that becomes
victims more. Students stigmatized, either because they have poor performance
and learning difficulties or are derogations not-necessarily-delinquent
behaviour or because they come from minorities, have less access and fewer
opportunities to acquire property of a society.
This highly interesting and two surveys took place among students drills, in
the 2nd gymnasium of Keratsini (area of
Attica) and at Varvakeio Test laboratory, which were
presented in a meeting of the Laboratory of Comparative Education,
International Educational Policy and Communication, University of Athens, show
that students are vulnerable victims and are more likely to undergo a criminal
action against them, compared with other population groups. Also, that teachers
and parents-experiencing the problem and worry-rightly bear the burden of daily
management of the phenomenon and are practically helpless.
The concept of violence in school, physical, sexual, psychological, verbal
abuse, threats and vandalism, is a function of individual, social and cultural
aspects. It is directly linked to the social and cultural conditions of life
and often emerges as an alternative response to the socio-economic inequalities
and social conflicts.
Especially in today's multicultural school must first be understood and also to
(learn to) manage crises caused by inequality, injustice and ignorance within
and outside «school walls», to win the «internal balance». The complex problem
of school violence to analyze the texts of Matthew D., professor, University of
Athens, director of ESPAIDEPE(a Greek corporation) ,
Gianni’s Panousis, professor of Criminology at the
University of Athens, the Vaso Artinopoulou,
Associate Professor of Psychology at Panteion (a
Univ. of Athens)and Joanne Tsigkanou, a lawyer,
doctor Sociology of Crime (London School of Economics, 1988), research director
and deputy director of the Institute of Political Sociology at the National
Centre for Social Research.
Writer: George Kioussis