Features of school violence in China

The world's most populous nation, there are about 24.68 million college students in 2003

Younger age, groupment and repeatability, expressed in:

  • Foul language, abuse, slander and ridicule.
  • Fighting and brawling,
  • Damage to the victim's books, clothes and other personal property
  • Force the victim what they don't want to do.
  • Spreading rumors on the internet.

Reason analysis

Family

The Disciplinary education way in traditional Chinese culture has flaws of promoting violence.

Selfishness ensues when children are spoiled by their parents.

School

For a long time, due to the impact of the exam-oriented education, resulting in no position mental health education has seriously hindered the overall development of students.

Traditional management of schools is deficient in innovation. It is not only lacking in effective management to deal the the new group of students who are mostly one-child, but also lacking in effective response to deal with the social violence infiltrating in school.

Schools were lack of sensitivity and skills for handling school violence appropriately,thus it usually behaves passively when an event occurs.

Society

Due to the increasing unrest in the current social transition period in China, the violence risks spread to the campus from time to time.

Negative information from network affects the judgment of students

The media rebuilding the process of the crimes excessively.

Judiciary

The limitation of Law about school violence is not clear and the punishment is not strict.

Lack of legal education.

Under the age of 14: No criminal liability.

Aged 14 to 16: Committed intentional homicide, intentional injury, caused injured and dead,

Above the age of 16: People shall Bear Criminal Responsibility.

Aged 14 to 18: People shall be given a lighter or mitigated punishment.

According to the sample survey in 2003 indicated that the majority ages of juveniles when they commit crimes are ranging from 14 to 16 years old.