{"id":882,"date":"2020-05-14T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T12:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/?p=882"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T13:16:28","slug":"school-shootings-where-does-the-accountability-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/spring2020\/school-shootings-where-does-the-accountability-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"School Shootings: Where Does the Accountability Lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Reality-1-410x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Reality-1-410x1024.jpg 410w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Reality-1-120x300.jpg 120w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Reality-1-768x1920.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Reality-1-230x575.jpg 230w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Reality-1-350x875.jpg 350w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Reality-1-480x1200.jpg 480w, https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Reality-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Even though shootings are frequent and even normalized by some people, there are many misconceptions about the circumstances that create a school shooter.\u00a0 In sharing this graphic, I hope to bring awareness to these misconceptions and the realities of how school shooters can go unnoticed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nowadays, school shootings are so common in the United States that news videos reporting on them attract comments like \u201cAs an American I\u2019m surprised I haven\u2019t dealt with a school shooting\u201d(Mai, 2020).\u00a0Other commenters blame others for allowing the shooter to cause such devastation.\u00a0 Through looking at the comment sections on videos covering both the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and the Santa Fe High School shooting, I was able to identify four common sources of blame for the shooter\u2019s actions: lack of parental supervision, mental illness, lack of teacher intervention, and bullying.\u00a0 However, through reading Katherine Newman\u2019s book titled <em>Rampage <\/em>on the sociological roots of school shootings, I learned more about the flaws in these four statements often found in pop culture.\u00a0 In my table, I outlined the four popular assumptions on the causes of school shootings followed by an explanation for each that challenges it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, I believe that when a person becomes a school shooter, the blame can\u2019t be placed on any one individual or factor.&nbsp; It\u2019s a much more complicated subject that involves multiple broken systems, including the school and community, that ultimately lead to those individual factors becoming a problem.&nbsp; Therefore, I think the blame should shift from an individual focus to one that holds faulty systems accountable.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Definitions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Clean slate theory is the belief that students should not have a trail of paperwork describing their behavior following them from grade to grade, thus having a clean slate each school year.\u00a0 This belief manifests itself in schools all over the United States due to teachers&#8217; and school administrators&#8217; desire to not have a student\u2019s past behaviors bias a new teacher\u2019s impression of them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li>Loosely coupled systems are organizations whose parts are not tightly connected to each other. Thus, when when one part of the organization fails to function properly, the other parts are not affected  and the system can still function.\u00a0 On the other hand, if one part of a tightly coupled system fails, the whole system will be affected.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Works Cited<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mai, Gacha. Comment on \u201c17 dead in \u2018horrific\u2019 high school shooting\u201d. <em>Youtube<\/em>, February 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xgIJosk0pnA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xgIJosk0pnA<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Newman, Katherine S. <em>Rampage: Social Roots of School Shootings<\/em>. Perseus Books, LLC, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Even though shootings are frequent and even normalized by some people, there are many misconceptions about the circumstances that create a school shooter.\u00a0 In sharing this graphic, I hope to bring awareness to these misconceptions and the realities of how school shooters can go unnoticed.\u00a0\u00a0 Nowadays, school shootings are so common in the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring2020"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>School Shootings: Where Does the Accountability Lie? - Sharing Sociology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/soc.hamiltonlits.org\/sharingsociology\/spring2020\/school-shootings-where-does-the-accountability-lie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"School Shootings: Where Does the Accountability Lie? 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