Source: Popular Daily | Author: 20 15-06-28
□CFP Photo courtesy Some experts pointed out that, like other countries in the world, the school bullying phenomenon in China is becoming more and more serious, but the understanding of this problem is relatively backward, so it is necessary to face up to the problem from the perspective of "long-term development" and start to solve it. "Bullying incidents are getting worse and worse. In the future, children may go to two extremes: bullied children feel inferior and bullied children ignore the law. Both of these situations will have a negative impact on the future development of society. "
■ News background
Recently, many incidents of juvenile violence at home and abroad have aroused public concern: in China, for example, four junior high school students in Qingyuan, Zhejiang Province locked a primary school student in a dark room and beat him, tied his neck with a rope and burned his body with cigarette butts; Foreign high school students such as Los Angeles 12 punched and kicked two female students, stripped off their clothes and took photos, and burned their nipples with cigarette butts.
The above cases make people realize that school violence has become a chronic disease faced by many countries, and it is showing a trend of younger age. What are the differences and lessons in handling such cases in other countries?
On the situation of school violence in the United States, the reporter interviewed Deng Hong, an American criminal defense lawyer who has accepted juvenile delinquency cases for many times.
Bullying is very common in the computer age.
Since 18, Deng Hong has handled a large number of criminal cases involving teenagers and international students, including many cases of campus violence. According to him, since the mid-1980s, the number of bullying cases in American schools has been increasing.
"In the 1980s, it was generally believed that children's education in the United States was relatively open. Sometimes children will play pranks or even pranks on campus. American parents often say that' children are children after all' (children are children after all) and don't care too much about their behavior. However, research in the mid-1980s, especially psychological research, showed that the school bullying incident became more and more serious. "
Research shows that the main reason for the increase of school bullying events is the arrival of the computer age. "Children are playing violent computer games, lacking social skills and training."
Deng Hong said that with the advent of the computer age, American society has become more diversified and problems have emerged. For example, some children ridicule or even violently confront classmates with disabilities, different skin colors or different religious beliefs.
In the 1990s, the incidence of bullying in American schools reached its peak. At that time, statistics showed that one in every three students had been bullied by classmates.
Deng Hong said that more and more school bullying incidents divided students into two categories: bullied students and bullied students. The two sides formed their own gangs and frequently clashed. Huaqing Gang, a student gang in China, clashed with Latino student gangs in Los Angeles in the 1980s, which is a typical case of "fighting evil with evil" among students.
The campus gun case sounded the alarm.
Because the American constitutional amendment gives people the right to hold guns, individual students enter the campus with guns, creating a bloody case that shocked the whole country.
1 On April 20th, 999, two students entered Columbine High School in Colorado with guns, resulting in the death of 12 students and1teacher, and 24 injuries. A year later, a school shooting occurred in stockton, California, killing five people.
Police investigation found that in the above two shootings, students were victims of school bullying. Because I was bullied, frustrated and killed by other students at school.
The above-mentioned campus killings prompted American society to reflect on the problem of gun proliferation, and also made more people pay attention to the school bullying phenomenon. Deng Hong said that the school shooting sounded the alarm and made people realize that school bullying is by no means a simple problem: bullied students may have serious inferiority complex, even suicidal tendencies, or germinate revenge thoughts and make excessive behaviors; Because the law is not perfect and the punishment is not severe, students who bully others may become more and more lawless and often break the law when they grow up.