Children and Violence In Lost Boys, a study of race and youth violence, author James Garbarino says, "The 1997-1998 school year will go down in American history as the turning point in our country's experience and understanding of lethal youth violence. - October 1, 1997, Pearl, Mississippi: after killing his mother, sixteen-year-old Luke Woodham opens fire at his high school, killing tress and wounding seven. - December 1, 1997, West Paducah, Kentucky: fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal kills three students at …showed first 75 words of 976 total…

…showed last 75 words of 976 total…by the individual and the community must be put forth in order to help curb this problem. Works Cited Edelman, Marion Wright. <www.oseda.missouri.edu/kidcnt/report/ violence/nspcomm.html > Garbarino, James. Lost Boys. Chicago: Free Press, 1999. Gray, Michael. The Bobo Doll Study. New York: Random, 1998. National Television Violence Study. California: SAGE Publications, 1997. DeJong, W. "School-based violence prevention: From the peaceable school to the peaceable neighborhood." Forum: National Institute for Dispute Resolution, 25, p.8-14, 1994.