Mass Shootings: A Case Study

5 years ago there was a boy named Bates who was involved in a mass shooting spree. When this case was covered by officials they never saw the reason why he did all of this. This all started on August 4 2014. A couple days before August fourth was his first day of 3rd grade when he murdered his parents with his own two hands during his rage episode. Police officers came over immediately to check the scene and there was no signs of who could’ve been. But seven year old Bates showed no signs of guilt

cause, bluntly, is as tired as that of the school shooting: a headline per month on the latest tragedy has become a common occurrence in contemporary media. America, as a collective, mourns for an immediate period, cursing the malicious gun-wielder, until the story vanishes from the limelight, waiting to repeat itself again. One of the most prominent types of shootings are those on college campuses. In 2015 alone, there have been twenty-three shootings on college campuses (Sanburn 2015). Time after

of homicide, and most of these homicides tend to come from shootings. Now, when an officer is dispatch to a crime scene they have to take a detail report, but being that they are human sometimes they may miss or do not report everything in writing. When this happens it can create a gap in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program system once it is sent to them for statistical recording. Within this paper we will examine how school shootings with the hope of gain an understanding of how data reporting

Either way mass shootings can be defined, they still present a huge problem in the United States. One popular definition of mass shootings is any incident in which, four or more people have been injured by gun violence. Using this definition the U.S had 204 mass shootings in 204 days in 2015 according to Mass Shooting Tracker a Reddit based organization which has been cited by the Washington Post. "This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other

and mass shootings because there is a significant correlation between the two. I selected the topic of the mentally ill and mass shootings because it is an ever increasing epidemic that needs to be addressed. As mass shootings continue to rise we can see a direct correlation between the mentally ill and acts of violence being carried out by those individuals. For example, Sandy Hook, the Aurora movie theater shooting, the Las Vegas Route 91 shooting, etc. Statistics show that a mass shooting is attempted

Research in school shootings have been administered in many categories, including sociology, psychology, and etc. past studies, and direct later studies in school shootings, offers a sociology stand point for understanding the differences of school shooting incidents, including rampage shootings, mass murders shootings, and examining the mass media dynamic of school shootings; as well as presenting a combination of causes said in the research, including those on the individual, community, and social

School Action Plans for Mass Shootings Prepared for Professor Ann Alexander Grand Rapids Community College Grand Rapids, Michigan Prepared by Laura Fidler March 25, 2018 Memo To: Professor Ann Alexander From: Laura Fidler Date: March 25, 2018 Subject: Report on School Action Plans for Mass Shootings Here is the report that you assigned at the beginning of the semester. I did research to find out what other schools are doing, as well as interviewed our own Chief of Police here on campus

situations and can even commit very dangerous crimes, such as murder. Major depression is a more severe case of depression it is a feeling of sadness that continues on and on and a feeling of hopeless with lack of interest in anything and in every life activities. This affects the way you think and feel, and also certain behaviors lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. In most cases depression does not lead to the murder of others but to the murder of themselves, many people who attempt

children were all killed from accidental shootings, within 2 days. Ida Villegas-Hernandez. Abby Villegas-Hernandez. Cynthia Janet Villegas-Hernandez. These three children were all killed by Their Dad, Juan David Villegas-Hernandez in their own home. This act is only one example where easy access to guns can result in such a

Advocating for mental health screenings would be less politically controversial than arguing for stricter gun laws however it would still be difficult to effectively implement the policy. Recent studies have shown that a majority of mass shooters have some form of mental health disorder or suffer from suicidal thoughts. Diagnosing and treating is often difficult because many do not visit the doctor on a regular basis making it impossible for them to be labeled as mentally ill; suicide rates have