By Laura Quarantiello
® 2004 Tiare Publications Group
FISTS TO FIREARMS
To qualify as school violence an incident must happen within a school
building on school grounds (playground, quad area, parking lot).
School, in this case, is defined as an institution for learning for
children from kindergarten to 12th grade. Although colleges and
universities are schools most of the students are adults and violent
crimes on adult-level campuses are not included under the popular
definitions of school violence. Studies and surveys of the subject
have traditionally also included incidents occurring on the way to and
from school when they involved students because threats made at school
are often carried out at these times,
School-based violent victimizations include the following:
Physical attack or fight - The actual and intentional touching or
striking of another person against his or her will, or the intentional
causing of bodily harm to an individual.
Simple assault - An attack or attempted assault without a weapon
resulting in either no injury, minor or undetermined injury requiring
less than two days of hospitalization.
Aggravated assault - An unlawful attack by one person upon another
when the offender uses a weapon or displays it in a threatening
manner, or the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily
injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible
internal injury, severe lacerations or loss of consciousness.
Sexual assault û Covers a wide range of victimization, separate from
rape or attempted rape. These crimes include attacks or attempted
attacks generally involving unwanted sexual contact between victim and
offender. Sexual assault may or may not involve force and includes
such things as grabbing or fondling. Sexual assault also includes
verbal threats.
Forcible rape û The carnal knowledge of a person, forcibly and/or
against that person's will or not forcibly or against the person's
will when that person is incapable of giving consent because of his or
her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity or because of
his or her youth.
Robbery û The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the
care, custody or control of a person or persons through force or
threat of force or violence and/or making the victim fearful.
Homicide (Murder and non-negligent manslaughter) ûThe willful killing
of one human being by another
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