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The researchers then asked the same
question to European children who
had not be exposed to hostile envi-
ronments, and those children drew
houses with trees, stick families, a
dog and sunshine.
Shouldn’t we be striving for the
'sunshine' scenario?
There is some truth to the traditional
concept that the harder we make it
for the 'bad guy' to do 'bad things'
the more of a deterrent there is.
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However, truly 'bad people' will
always find a way to circumvent it,
which in turn defeats its purpose.
Moving away from traditional meth-
ods of hardening schools after ev-
ery new incident occurs by using
'big dog' philosophies will take
time, nonetheless, we can begin im-
mediately to search out innova-
tive ways to create environments
that provide the same levels of se-
curity, while also providing a mix-
ture of color and natural materials
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