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Response To Violent Prone Female Adolescents: The Chicago Public School Approach, Marian E. Dozier
Response To Violent Prone Female Adolescents: The Chicago Public School Approach, Marian E. Dozier
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School violence has become increasingly more prevalent among adolescent females over the last ten years. As administrators, teachers, parents, and law enforcement officials try to control and decrease the number of violent incidents that occur in our schools, adolescent females continue to exhibit inappropriate and violent behavior at an alarming rate within our school communities. Adolescent females who behave badly have historically been overlooked or ignored, as girls have often been perceived as being incapable of demonstrating hostile conduct in an academic setting.
The purpose of this study was to investigate, describe, and analyze the frequency and nature of violent …