{"id":17286,"date":"2023-04-10T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=17286"},"modified":"2023-04-10T10:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:48:25","slug":"everyday-violence-in-california-schools-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/everyday-violence-in-california-schools-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Study Points to Sharp Decrease in Everyday Violence in California Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While it is true that mass shootings in schools have continued nationwide, leaving behind many deaths and terror in students, parents, teachers and the community at large, research from the University of California at Los Angeles has indicated that daily violence in California schools has sharply decreased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The analysis notes that over the two decades preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a sharp and consistent decline in severe forms of violence, including bullying and weapon-related behavior, in California middle and high schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UCLA scholar Ron Avi Astor, co-author of the study published in the World Journal of Pediatrics, suggested that outbreaks of gun violence should be treated as a separate social and psychological phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

"Every school shooting is a devastating act that terrifies the nation, and there is a growing sense among the public that little has changed in two decades to make schools safe," Astor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

"But mass shootings are only part of this story. Overall, on a day-to-day basis for most students, American schools are safer than they have been for many decades," he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Astor is a professor of social welfare and education at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using data from the confidential California Healthy Kids Survey, he and co-authors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine analyzed responses from more than 6 million middle and high school students between 2001 and 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

"During the 18-year period examined, California high schools experienced massive reductions in all forms of victimization," including physical threats with or without weapons, verbal and psychological abuse, and property crimes, the authors wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is worth remembering that gun violence is the third cause of death among American youth between 15 and 24 years old and the fourth cause of death among minors between 10 and 14 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the K-12 School Shooting Database<\/a>, in 2022 there were 303 shootings in schools in the US, while so far in 2023 there are 104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organization founded by David Riedman, specifies that from 1970 to date, 792 school shootings have been caused by a dispute that has escalated, followed by accidents, drivers shooting, illegal activities, suicide or suicide attempts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the cases, he notes, have occurred during morning classes, sporting events, and evening classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While 63.6 percent of these shootings occur in high schools, 18.2 percent in elementary schools, and 10.2 percent in secondary schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This information includes gang shootings, domestic violence, shootings at sports games and after-hours school events, suicides, fights that end in shootings, and accidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be interested in: Shooting this Monday in Kentucky leaves at least 5 dead and 8 injured<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Si bien es cierto que los tiroteos masivos en escuelas han continuado a nivel nacional, dejando en su camino much\u00edsimas muertes y terror en estudiantes, padres, maestros y en la comunidad en general, una investigaci\u00f3n de la Universidad de California en Los \u00c1ngeles, ha se\u00f1alado que la violencia cotidiana en escuelas de California ha disminuido […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17288,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17286\/revisions\/17288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}