CC202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gun Control, Charles William Jefferys, C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute
Document Summary
Violence in schools is not a recent development. 3 explanations of school shootings: risk, psychological, cultural/sociological. Psychopathic shooters, psychotic shooters (hear voices or fele disconnected from reality), traumatized shooters. Violent media explanation, availability of guns, bullying culture in schools, however not every perpetrator was bullied, a way for boys to achieve masculinity. E. g. school resource officers, surveillance cameras, chain link. Policy recommendations: fences, zero tolerance increase in rampage shootings. Disciplinary systems are more formal and rigid. Black latino students are expelled and suspended at much higher rates than white students lasting negative consequences. 2009 170000 police officers were posted in schools. Shooting at c. w. jeffreys initially linbked to virgina tech and dawson college shootings. Subsequently connected gangs, guns and toronto"s underclass. Media outlets tend to focus on violent street crime. Toronto star suggested that jordan manners had been hanging out with the wrong crowd. Columbine as a turning point national trauma.
