...year by school shooters? If teachers have a gun in the classroom, or in their possession, would there be less deaths? “Colorado school district will allow teachers to carry guns (nypost.com/2016/12/15).” If someone walked into a school with a gun, how many people will die before the cops arrive? The answer is one to many. If teachers had guns, they can protect their class, and themselves. “In Colorado Springs it takes law enforcement an average of 20 minutes to get to the school (nypost.com/2016/12/15).” Twenty minutes that is a long time to wait for the cops. Some school even have cops in the school at all times, but should teachers have guns on them? Yes, how is one cop going to protect the whole school? In the past, there have been many school shooting, and even more deaths. So how are the schools going to learn from the past, and look into the future. “In 2016 there were 35 school shooting that resulted in death(abc15.com/news/state).” So how are the...
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...Theresa Sidders Intro to Criminology 02/29/2012 The School Shooter Perspective Threat Assessment In July of 1999 a symposium in Leesburg, VA was held to present a systematic procedure for the threat assessment and intervention of violence in our schools. The results from a 1998 study done by the FBI’s National Center for Analysis of Violent Crime are being used to formulate concepts and principles to address and prevent school shootings. In this study, eighteen school shootings were reviewed and the combined information is being used to bring better knowledge of the behavioral prospective of the shooters. Although it is almost impossible to “profile” a shooter, there are some situations that are similar in the separate cases. Instead of focusing on the misinformation that is given by the media about the shooters, i.e. that all the school shooters tend to be loners, or that they are all motivated by revenge, this symposium is focused on what possible types of behaviors, family and social backgrounds that may play a part in these individuals lives that the schools can be made aware of ahead of time in order to prevent any further school shootings from happening. Understanding that a threat, is an expression of intent to cause harm or act out violently against someone or something. This can be done verbally, in writing or by using symbols, for example, using one’s hands to form of a gun. After a threat is made it is necessary to determine what category the...
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... TWO BOYS, SAME CRIME Woking up in the morning, getting your kids ready for school. Kissing them and sending them to school. That moment was the last time you see your children alive. I don’t remember any teacher or administrator ever mentioning the subject. There was nothing like there is today, when school kids know what “lockdown” means.School is the first place that is safe you think. Two kids couldn't take the pressure anyone and let it out by killing everyone. Thousands of lives ruin by a child with a gun. School shooting is the number one problem in your country. When was little I didn't think about school shooting or someone coming into your school and shooting us. Knowing that your kid meant be the shooter is what ames your breath away. Thinking not my kid, anyone can be the shooter, you just have to look very close on the signs that child has like mental illness, guns, video games. Rampage school shooting occurs when students attack their own school. Which Michael and Thomas did they woke up and carried out his crime and though they would get away. On the day of December 1, 1997 Michael Carneal open fire at his own high school at the age of fourteen. The shooting took place in the quite West Paducah, Kentucky. The shooting happen in Heath High School. Michael was planning the attack at the same age of five. Planning to bring the gun to show and tell and open fire to everyone that didn’t like it...
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...In the movie “ Freedom Writers “, Ms Erin Gruwell explains, with the right discipline & dedication anyone can change, but one has to want to change. How does she get them to want to change? “Freedom Writers”, was made in 2007, and set in Long Beach California at Woodrow Wilson High School. It is about a class of students and the challenges they are facing. We get to know the teacher, Mrs Gruwell, an English teacher, first time as voluntary integration Programme teacher; she is one of the characters that are facing a challenge. She gets a class full of children that don’t care about life or education. She faces a challenge to come to class and teach these students and to make it worthwhile for them to come to school. The students hang out with others of their own kind (Black people with black people, white people with white people, Asian with Asian people, Hispanic with Hispanic, etc.) and fight the ones that are not of their race. In the classrooms, students are always fighting, most of them in gangs, and they don’t really care about school, they only go to school because they are forced to, it was either school or boot camp. The teachers also don’t care much for the students. But Mrs Gruwell makes them change their perspective and they actually start to change. An inspiring scene in the movie, is when Mrs Gruwell plays a really mind opening game with the class. After making a line with sticky tape and explaining to step on the line if the question is true to you, she asks...
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...There was also a claim that police officer was beat. Body-cams can help solve the problem of false claims not only for citizens but officials as well. One case in particular that would better support body-cam would be that of Trevon Martin. Martin was born on February 5, 1995. He was a junior at Dr. Michael M. Krop High school and he lived with his mother and his brother in Miami Gardens, Florida. George Zimmerman was born on October 5, 1983 in Manassas, Virginia. He was employed as a fraud investigator for insurance. The retreat at twin Lakes was a gated community in Florida. Trevon Marin was visiting his father’s fiancé’ and her son along with his father on February 26, 2012. At 7:09 p.m., George Zimmerman called the police nonemergency number to report what...
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...Nichole Andreasen Sociology of Crime 4 December 2014 Ferguson Shootings: Victim Theories One of the biggest cases that is surrounding the news today is the story Michael Brown and Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. This case began on August 9th, 2014 when Darren Wilson shot 18 year old Michael Brown. When he was shot, Brown had been unarmed. Before the shooting took place, Brown had been suspected of being involved in a robbery. Around this time, Wilson had been leaving another call that was made, when he stopped Brown for being in the street. He didn’t realize at the time that Brown was the suspect that was involved in the robbery. When he stopped Brown, he physically assaulted Wilson by pushing him into the car. The rest of what happened is still up for debate but what they believed to have happened is that Wilson pulled out his gun and when he did this Brown put his hand over the gun and Wilson shot. Wilson continued to shoot Brown six different times and kill him. Since Brown was unarmed and Wilson originally had no reason to stop Brown other than the fact that they were in the street, many people believed that Wilson did what he did out of racism and that Brown was the victim and not Wilson. This case went to trial and after three months the grand jury decided not to indict Wilson for the shooting of Brown. Throughout this paper, I will go through each point of view of Brown being the victim and Wilson being the victim. I will also use different victim theories to explain...
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...minors across our nation is sadly becoming trendy and familiar. School shootings are tragic and yet that is all that is said about them. It seems as though words of action to stop such tragedies are just that. Educated experts study reasons why such crimes take place, but the findings are rarely put into action. The violence and content that the media of the United States displays to children causes hidden irreversible damage that most deny. What it would take to minimize the spread of school shootings is simple and the results would surprise American society. The content of movies, music, and other forms of entertainment have a serious effect on children because media inadvertently trains their minds for violence and needs to be stopped. Almost two years has passed since the most brutal and televised school shooting occurred in Colorado at Columbine High School. Dozens of threats and killings have occurred since then and yet no action to prevent such out brakes has been taken. The great majority of people in this country are concerned and responsible adults who want a safe environment for themselves and for children. Even though adults and the majority of society are "concerned" it seems this problem is expanding and getting out of control (Charry 1998). In extremely recent current events of this past week the spreading trend has come to pass yet again. In the suburb of Santee, California a 15- year- old high school freshman shot and killed two classmates and wounded 13 others...
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...Cyber Bullying: It’s Causes and Effects on Adolescents John Flanders Pima Medical Institute The causes and effects of Cyber Bullying, and Bullying in general, can be not only detrimental for the fragile psyche of children but it’s a new menace to society. Cyber Bullying has swept across the world at a high rate. There is an abundance of websites and foundations that have been created just to fight this plague. The majority of the information that has been pulled together for this paper is from various websites and foundations that were created by the parents of children who have taken their lives due to the negative effects of being bullied both at school, on the way home from school, and in their very own homes via social media. Bullying of all forms has been tied to every single school shooting that has occurred over the last 20 years. Cyberbullying is an epidemic that is more widespread amongst adolescent females than males. The definition of cyber bullying, per the Merriam Webster Dictionary, is the electronic posting of mean spirited messages about a person (as a student) often done anonymously. It first became noticed in 2000. The different types of cyber bullying are exclusion, harassment, outing, cyber stalking, flaming, pseudonyms, and anonymity. Some examples of methods used in cyber bullying Cyberbullying.info are as follows: * Exclusion- In many cases, teenagers who don't have mobile phone are excluded from the group of teenagers who do. Girls...
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...Kaytlin Wilson DE english 11 Mr. Edwards 08 March 2018 Gun Control When there is a bombing, society blames the bomber. When there is a drunk-driving accident, society blames the driver. Why, when there is a shooting does society blame the gun? Recently there was a school shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, where a 19-year-old male began shooting at students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Nikolas Cruz, the shooter, used a semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle. Cruz obtained this weapon legally in the state of Florida. Which he then used to fire off in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Although this school shooting was a tragedy, the United States does not need to approve more gun control laws. Gun control laws should no be put in place due to the following reasons: banning assault weapons (like the one used in the Douglas shooting) will not reduce crime, gun control laws will not...
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...America. People who are in favor of gun control foresee no violence whatsoever if guns were banned. But is that a realistic thought? I will carefully analyze details discussing how an actual gun ban would result. Would a gun ban make the world safer to live in? Would it make the world more dangerous? Prompted by horrific elementary school shooting, President Barack Obama tasked his administration with creating concrete proposals to reduce gun violence that has plagued the country. The President includes both legislative proposals that would need to be acted on by Congress and executive actions he can perform on his own. Many of the executive actions involve the president directing agencies to do a better job of sharing information. Proposed congressional actions include, but are not limited to: (1) Requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales, including those by private sellers that currently are exempt; (2) Reinstating and strengthening the ban on assault weapons that was in place from 1994 to 2004; (3) Limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; (4) Financing programs to train more police officers, first responders and school officials on how to respond to active armed attacks; and (5) Providing financing to expand mental health programs for young people. A national survey of police officers show overwhelming support for the Second Amendment and the country’s strong tradition of gun ownership, while opposing many federal gun control proposals they say would...
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...decision of 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. These legal changes greatly affected the opportunities available to women, nonblack minorities, disabled individuals, and other victims of discrimination. The Brown decision demonstrated that the litigation strategy of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) could undermine the legal foundations of southern segregationist practices, but the strategy worked only when blacks, acting individually or in small groups, assumed the risks associated with crossing racial barriers. Thus, even after the Supreme Court declared that public school segregation was unconstitutional, black activism was necessary to compel the federal government to implement the decision and extend its principles to all areas of public life rather than simply in schools. The initial phase of the black protest activity in the post-Brown period began on December 1, 1955. Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider, thereby defying a southern custom that required blacks to give seats toward the front of buses to whites. When she was jailed, a black community boycott of the city’s buses began. The boycott lasted more than a year, demonstrating the unity and determination of black residents and inspiring blacks elsewhere. Martin Luther King, Jr., who emerged as the boycott movement’s most effective leader, possessed unique conciliatory and oratorical skills. He understood...
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...Teachers and Weapons in Schools Jessica Rhodes Composition II WI12 Instructor S. Cochran February 10, 2013 Abstract In this paper, I will explore the controversial question of whether teachers should be allowed or required to carry weapons on school campuses. The question of whether the topic should be entertained has come up time and again after tragedies occur, the timeline of which will be summarized herein. The recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that devastated the nation on December 14, 2012, has wrenched this debate crudely back into the spotlight. I will investigate different types of protective instruments that could possibly be used, as well as what types are used in schools that have such regulations. I will delve into the reasoning behind states that have implemented laws that allow teachers to carry guns in school and/or at school events. Included within are excerpts from this writer’s first-person interview conducted with Maria Otero-Ball, a kindergarten teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a teacher of children the same age as those involved in the Newtown tragedy, Mrs. Otero-Ball offers a first-hand view on the changes that she and the school have made following the tragedy, as well as her views on the practicality of weapons in the school. My goals in preparing this paper are to expand my thoughts on the subject, peruse the thoughts of others, and explore the statistics to provide a better overall understanding of...
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...Howard Unruh had a mental disability after he came back from the war. He was denied for who he was because he was a homosexual. He had been planning to kill his neighbors for the looks that they gave him and for the way that he knew they talked about him behind his back. After he came home from a failed date, he saw that his mother's gate had been tampered with and that was the last straw, that is when Unruh went up into the apartment and proceeded with the planning of the shooting. Howard Unruh as a child had one sibling. He had one brother named James Unruh. He was born January 21, 1921 and was raised only by his mother because his parents separated in 1930. He attended Cramer junior High School and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Eastern Camden, NJ. He desired to be a government employee Religion runner while he was in highschool. He was described as a needy yet shy child. In conclusion, Howard Unruh was a man who impacted history because of his actions. He made people think and be more careful for how they treat others. Although his adulthood was not the best, he still had a childhood and was loved by many people. This informative essay was about the things that Howard Unruh did and how he did it, his reasons for doing the things he did, and his...
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...School Bullying: A Dangerous Norm “Because he was short.” This is the response the media received when Jon Carmichael’s friends were asked why he was bullied to the point of taking his own life. In 2010, Carmichael hung himself in his family’s barn after incessant verbal and physical abuse. Besides being the target of homosexual slurs, he was thrown into trashcans on a weekly basis and held upside down over a toilet in the school’s bathroom while his head was flushed over and over. There is now a $20 million federal lawsuit against the school for negligence and rightfully so, because the most appalling part of this whole tragedy is the fact that Carmichael was only 13 years old. The lawsuit claims that several members of the school’s faculty witnessed the bullying and did not report it. It also states that an unknown staff member even filmed one incident and posted the video on YouTube (Kuo & Cooper, 2011). Unfortunately cases like this one are occurring far too frequently in our society, and the ages of these victims who commit suicide are dropping. Carmichael’s tragic ending is just one horrific example of what can happen when school officials choose to look the other way after witnessing bullying. The purpose of this proposal is to convince readers that school administrators need to actively identify and attend to the bully’s potential psychological issues, instead of focusing on the victim’s behavior. When faculty members ignore confrontations between students, they...
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...Reminiscent of the callous Trayvon Martin shooting that resonated throughout the United States, Michael Brown suffered the same tragic fate on August 13. Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager who was described as “a leader” who knew “what he wanted out of life,” was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri last month, sparking a national outcry and civil unrest (Shoichet). In response to the inhumane shooting, controversy arose due to differing accounts over the events that took place on that night, resulting in the start of public protests in Missouri. Throughout Missouri, demonstrators held up their hands to mimic Brown’s actions when he was confronted by Wilson: they chanted certain phrases, such as “no justice, no peace” (McLaughlin)....
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