What characteristics do school shooters share? Researcher suggests schools should address adolescent masculinity issues to help prevent rampage shootings
Boys involved in school shootings often struggle to live up to what they perceive as their school's ideals surrounding masculinity. When socially shunned at school, they develop deep-set grudges against their classmates and teachers. The shooters become increasingly angry, depressed, and more violent in their gendered practice. A shooting rampage is their ultimate performance, says Kathryn Farr of Portland State University in the US. In a study published in Springer's journal Gender Issues, she investigated the characteristics shared by 31 school boys involved in 29 mass shootings at American schools between 1995 and 2015. Farr's analysis suggests that boys' social status in middle and high school is determined in great part by peers' acceptance of them as "appropriately masculine."
Decisions on Death? – CitizenBlog
I have never been one to argue for or against a topic because I feel like there is a common ground that can be found for most cases. One topic that I have struggled with is the death penalty. It seems hypocritical that the United States looks upon other countries that tortures and kills their criminals with such high distain, which is warranted.
Inside an immigrant detention center that houses mothers and children
DILLEY, Texas -- U.S. officials are still trying to reunite as many as 386 children who were separated from their parents at the border under President Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy. Their parents have been deported, but officials say they have been able to reach most of them. Officials, meanwhile, are investigating the death of a child recently released from the nation's largest immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. Closure of "Tent City" for unaccompanied migrant children delayed for second time CBS News has confirmed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is actively investigating the death of a migrant child shortly after her release from the south Texas family residential center in Dilley. Attorneys for the child's mother cite "neglect and unsanitary conditions" as possible factors.
What characteristics are common among school shooters?
The U.S. Secret Service conducted one of the most thorough studies of school shooters over the past decades to try and create a "profile." That study uncovered certain commonalities of shooters. Though these characteristics do not predict a shooter, student school shooters are more likely to be: Male Caucasian Withdrawn (pulls back from school activities) Isolated or rejected from peers Living in a rural community Have easy access to weapons Bullied repeatedly from a young age (there is a point when the bullied child flips roles and becomes the bully) From a troubled homeSeveral school students were also mentally disturbed. In addition, there are warning signs of a child who may become violent (to himself or others). Michael G.
Honoring Dr. King by Ending Capital Punishment
The holiday marking the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. coincides with the beginning of legislative sessions in state capitals across the country. In a number of state capitals policymakers will consider whether the death penalty should continue as a feature of their justice systems.
Immigrants Detained at South Texas Family Residential Center: For or Against?
Children at Brownsville Immigration Detention Center Imagine: you and your daughters have spent years living in fear. All of you have been victimized by a male relative with whom you share a house.
Gun Control Vs. Mental Health Care: Debate After Mass Shootings Obscures Murky Reality
After the recent mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif., in which 11 people were killed at a country music bar, President Donald Trump struck a familiar refrain: “It’s a mental health problem,” he said of the gunman, Ian David Long. “He was a very sick puppy.” Similarly, after a school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 students and staff members in February, Trump tweeted that there were “so many signs that the shooter was mentally disturbed.” Public health and mental health experts counter that blaming the violence on the mentally ill is unfair and inaccurate, pointing instead to lax gun laws. “Most violence is not committed by people who are mentally ill,” said Dr.
✅ 25+ Best Memes About Capital Punishment
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Mental illness and gun laws: What you may not know about the complexities
Every time the country is shaken by a tragic mass shooting and the loss of innocent lives, the same debates are repeated. Besides sending thoughts and prayers for the victims, a common theme – especially when the shooter is not a Muslim – is discussing warning signs of mental illness, and its role in the actions of the murderer. In a Feb. 28, 2018 meeting at the White House, in addition to suggesting stricter gun laws, the President said he thought due process for mentally ill people was not as important as making sure that they do not have guns.
