The aim of this qualitative study is to explore risk factors for school violence with a focus on what influence perpetrators` violent behavior by analyzing school violence cases and conducting in-depth interviews with School Police Officers (SPOs). Th...
The aim of this qualitative study is to explore risk factors for school violence with a focus on what influence perpetrators` violent behavior by analyzing school violence cases and conducting in-depth interviews with School Police Officers (SPOs). The results show that structural factors of perpetrators` families proved to be closely related to their socioeconomic status and to the weaker parent-child bond in two-income households. Above all, it was clearly identified that structural factors lead to functional factors. Functional factors were explained by confirming positive effects of parent-child bonds, parental supports for their children, and parents` sense of justice in the prevention of school violence. On the other hand, parents` overprotection of their children was found to have a negative impact on the children`s involvement in school violence by badly affecting their building self-control and moral character. As a means to address the problems found, it is suggested that police should develop its own youth initiative that can oblige parents participation and a system through which police can continue follow-up management of children whose parents are no longer available.