Abstract. With the recent increase of school shootings and violence it is imperative that we become aware what could be the cause behind these attacks as well as learning how to prevent them. The researcher in this paper sets out to distinguish if there is a significant relationship between behavior and/or warning signs that could lead to school shootings. Although there is no school shooter profile, there are characteristics and/or warning signs that have gone either unnoticed or just plainly ignored by student and school personnel. I will then highlight any possible prevention strategies that could be put into play to help stop these attacks. Although there seems to be a “code of silence” amongst school personnel and students if there …show more content…
This article is qualitative research due to the collection of data the author obtained from others expressed in words not numbers. In the front matter of this research, Madifs (2014), states in the abstract a summary of the process and what his finding were. Although the article does not state a clear introduction, there is clear review of the data Madifs (2014) has collected as he explains it in great detail. Madifs (2014) clearly states his method of first finding cases through LexisNexis and how he narrowed down the cases. “The next stage of data collection was exploratory qualitative research that involved contacting the middle and high schools where rampage threats were averted in the last 10 years” (Madifs, 2014, p. 234). The author further explained his methods of conducting his research and the program he used help utilize all the data he collected. The author details his finding from the data analysis and highlights that the student “code of silence” has vastly diminished post-Columbine era (Madifs 2014). The author includes both a discussion and conclusion section where he clearly highlights his finding and answer to his questions. “The findings of this study ultimately suggest that, …show more content…
The authors discuss steps such as point of entry on to school grounds to be limited and controlled, wireless panic alarms, strategically placed telephones, the relationship between school officials, local law-enforcement and first responders need to be recognized before any sort of disaster that occurs, and teachers and students need to become “situation ally aware” (Duplechain & Morris, 2014). The authors also mention that creating a school shooter’s profile can help create a safe school environment. However many of the school shooters that were studied came from model families, were honor roll students, enrolled in higher level classes and very few disciplinary records. The one warning sign they discussed that should always be taken serious is any time someone no matter who it is talks about killing, whether it be an animal or in fantasy. In the end the authors believe that school personnel and students have the job of looking and listening closely for students who talk about killings and any one that might belong on school property and notify administration (Duplechain & Morris, 2014). It is important to also have an open dialog amongst students, staff, and
The school shooting at Columbine high school was one of the bloodiest and atrocious school shootings in United States history. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris devised a plan to inflict as much terror as possible in their school as well as the rest of the world. Even though their original plan of detonating propane bombs in the school cafeteria failed, these two improvised and still proceeded with the massacre. Columbine was never about killing mankind; Columbine was a quest to ensure both killers would reach widespread notoriety.
The Columbine High School shooting—one of the many horrific mass shootings in U.S. history—affected the lives of many. The two shooters responsible were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, internally known as the “Trenchcoat Mafia.” From the discovery of Dylan’s journal to Eric’s hate towards society, and the disturbing videos they had made prior to their attack. Their easy access to weapons allowed them to execute their plan. Harris’s psychopathy and Klebold’s depression were one of the reasons why they plotted their attack.
“Investigations of school shooters have often found that two characteristics emerge: peer rejection and social rejection (p.311)”. Typically school shooters are students who have been bullied, picked on and marginalized. The majority of schools shooters lack social and coping skill and are picked on by their peers. As a group, school shooters lack social support and prosocial relationships. Some school shooters show a history of cruelty to animals while others display affection, attachment and empathy toward animals.
One source found that “anti-depressant prescriptions for young adults in the vicinity of school shootings tend to rise after they occur” (McKnight et al. 2). The rise of anti-depressant prescriptions further proves that school shootings create mental health issues. Mcknight illustrates the effect such a tragic event has on a community. While anti-depressants provide relief to these sufferers, they also have harmful side effects that may interfere with their physical health, such as fatigue, nausea, and fatigue (Mayo Clinic Staff 1). In addition to increased prescription rates, school shootings affect children in the community more than violence in other locations because children know the victims, and school shootings break children's trust in school safety (Rossin-Slater 2).
School-related shootings, particularly those that are dramatic in nature, evoke strong public outcry, and justifiably so. Following an apparent spate of incidents occurring between 1997 and 2001, it seemed as if the USA was on the brink of a moral panic concerning delinquency to young youth. Since then, "Columbine has become a keyword for a complex set of emotions surrounding youth, risk, fear, and delinquency in 21st century America" (Muschert 2007). One alarmist (Stein 2000) went so far as to label Columbine as a metaphor for a contemporary crisis of youth culture.
I am sure that you already know that there is no profile for a school shooter, but there are things which everyone should be educated on. Educating and providing mental health intervention to those that might become a potential school shooter is where we should start. The Secret Service identifies 10 key finding in their “Safe School Initiative” study that might be useful in identifying a person who might be planning or thinking about an attack: 1. These attacks are seldom an impulsive acts 2. In most occasion, someone else knew about the shooters plan to attack 3.
The book “Rampage The Social Roots Of School Shootings” written by Newman et al, offers many different views and theories behind the issues of Rampage school shootings. In this paper I will give the reader an in depth overview and evaluation of the aforementioned book. Offering researched based reasons to why these school shootings actually happen. They explore the communities of Heath and Westside, the grounds of two horrific acts of rampage shootings by Michael Carnell, Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson. They explain various angles of there research such as identifying an issue, how signals given by children can be misinterpreted, the effects of social capital and how mental factors play a role in the acts of the shooters.
By increasing awareness not only will teachers be looking after suspicious behavior but students as well.
Students today live their day-to-day lives in constant fear of what seems inevitable. The United States has one of the highests rates of school shootings in the world. Society has become so desensitized to these shootings that they are no longer shocked to hear about another school falling victim to it. Even when students take a stand against gun violence, the only solution offered to them is a proposition to arm teachers. However, bringing more guns into a school will only further deteriorate the situation.
A close friend of mine, Ben was stabbed over twenty times by a student, Chad. Chad was headed to college with a promising future but decided it was more important to compromise everything he worked towards over a girl. Like I had said earlier in this assignment, there is often an initial problem that becomes the root of an act of school violence. Thankfully, this incident was not with a gun.
School Shootings: How We All Miss the Point... The aftermath of a school shooting is tragic, depressing, and causes hatred for the lives lost and the person who took them. Everyone, especially the media, tries to interpret why the shooter killed their victims, or why they felt the need to end others’ lives and their own. How We All Miss the Point on School Shootings, by Mark Manson, explains what and why these mass shootings happen. He starts by using examples of shootings and the murderer’s past.
A. The problem being addressed through the literature is that there is no viable connection between social rejection and school shooters; although there is some correlation between school shooters and bullying and other forms of ostracism. B. A research goal or hypothesis is to determine whether rejection correlates with school shootings. How detrimental is bullying and ostracism to the psyche of a child?
Someone bursts through the school, into the cafeteria, the library, an auditorium, or even in a classroom. Every day the threat looms over us. Haunting us with its increasing numbers. We live in fear of a school shooter. And I will not stand for it.
Symbolic interactionism illuminates fundamental elements that attribute to school shootings. According to Jeanne Ballantine and Joan Spade in their book, Schools and Society, A Sociological Approach to Education, “Symbols are the concepts or ideas that we use to frame our interactions” (2015:19). Symbolically, a sense of self and hierarchical place is determined by social interactions (Ballantine and Spade 2015). Students find themselves determining how they see and feel about themselves by how their cohorts, parents, siblings, teachers, and others interact with them. Sadly, the young perpetrators of school shootings have derived their sense of self from their social experiences of isolation, bullied harassment, and low hierarchical status, producing skewed and biased self-perceptions.
(Sub-subpoint 1) 87% of students said that the main cause of school shootings is because they want to level the playing field. (Alfred University) 2. (Sub-subpoint 2) For example, a 12-year-old from Nevada opened fire at school because he was bullied. He was called “an idiot, a retard and gay”.