School Violence: An Exploratory Case Study

What is school violence? Many describe school violence as any form of violence projected on an individual within school premises. Within the decade’s school violence has become more and more common in our society and has even lead to mass shootings. Most shooters are seen as outcasts by their peers and feel excluded. In our course textbook, Understanding Violence and Victimization cites that violence has increased dramatically within the past decade (Meadows, 2013). Meadows then discusses some risk factors of school violence such as factors referred to as character risk, undeveloped mental abilities, presence of early aggressive behaviors, family relationship and influences, exposure to violence and victimization, role of media and its impact on violence, general influence of our culture, are risk factor in schools (Meadows, 2013). We need to take
We will discuss what happened in this incident that disrupted the nation. In The Social Science Journal, “The Columbine High School Massacre and criminal justice system response: An exploratory case study” Matt DeLisi discuses about the horrible incident in Columbine High School when two students open fire on campuses killing 23 students and later committed suicide within a 4hour rampage. During the four hour incident witnesses mentioned that gunmen targeted student-athletes, students in Christian organization groups, and ethnic minorities. It was later discovered that the gunmen were infatuated with right-wing and Nazism ideologies and had planned the massacre for over a year (Matt DeLisi, 2002). Many questioned if there were any warning signs that could have been seen before the incident happened. A Documentary by Zero Hour on a YouTube channel gave us an insight on the lives of the two gunman. An analyzation of one of the teens and his distension of risk factors that were involved priere to the