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Review the information available here http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/youthviolence/schoolviolence/

make sure to go beyond that page as there are several links to follow.

First, why would this information be on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's website?! How does this topic relate to their mission?

Generally review and reflect on the site as you have for previous assignments. In addition, address the following questions: Who do you think should be the target of prevention strategies? Why? Knowing what you know about violence from a theoretical and scientific perspective, what recommendations would you give to a local school that was concerned about preventing school violence?

Here's yet another story of teens who committed suicide, possibly due to school bullying. Do you think these young people were already prone to commit suicide and the bullying tipped them over the edge? Or was bullying the causal factor?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/18/lance-lundsten-tiffani-maxwell-suicide-bullying_n_810201.html

"Two teenage high school students reportedly committed suicide this weekend in separate incidents, and friends and family of both say they were harassed and bullied at school. "