School Violence: Christopher Pittman (Case Study Sample)

Case study on school violence
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Case study on school violence
Youth violence has rampantly increased across the country where the youths are committing serious offences. This is very close to what most of the schools are experiencing violence related cases that the students commits in school and off compounds. The schools should engage into these matters, provide an orderly and disciplined environment that is conducive for learning, and be very safe from violence and related issues (Daniels, 2009). In our case study, we examine a student in one of the sub-urban schools who involved in violence, assessment of how the schools are providing safe conditions and preventing violence behavior is available in the study.
Biographical information on juvenile offender
The nation’s experiences on the juvenile violence’s have been disturbing to most of the people throughout the country. The situation has been worse especially the shootings that are happening in the locality. For instance, in our case is Ian who is a 15-year old student who is in possession of an armed gun. He took it from the parent’s cabinets and sneaked it to school where he commits a serious crime. The boy is a high school student and lives with the parents in the Southern where he attends school on a daily basis.
Ian, like many other teenagers is short temperamental and resistive to corrections. He gets offended very first due to trivial issues and can easily cause harm. However, Ian lacks the attention he deserves as a teenager and his parents are less available due to work conditions. The teachers on the other hand, teach generally and follow their time schedule strictly. Ian thus lacks the support and the general life qualities (Altun & Baker, 2010).
Circumstances of the crime and crime details
It was a normal school day and everything moved on swiftly without interactions. As it was the case with the assignments submissions, the teacher was not pleased with Ian’s work. As the students were dispersed after the school activities, the teacher called him aside. As Ian explained, the teacher was making un recommendable comment to him before he less knew of what to reply to the teacher he had withdrawn the gun he sneaks to school with and shot the teacher. This was a violent reaction that Ian did not understand and was extremely aggressive. According to McGee and DeBernardo (1999), they figure facts that being a loner as Ian was with less support could lead to a person straying away or rather an indication that moves someone away from the cultural norms as well as committing serious violent behavior.
A further research done on the same, what causes someone to be a loner, found that the males were more likely to counter the problem more than the females and were more violent. In studying Ian’s behavior, we get to understand that Ian lacks some guidance making him a loner. Investigating the case further, the media is also to blame partly due to their culture violence they show on the screens and the students are too engaged into them (Demuth, 2004). School shootings are also more common in the American schools that make it a custom and hence with the unsupported kid he is likely to have influence.
Events that preceded the case
Ian was then arrested and taken in a court trial; they questioned him of the occurrences that had taken place on that fateful day. According to some jury’s arguments, when a youth commits an adult’s crime the youth should not be compromised and instead should be convicted as an adult. Further, on in comparing the case to Christopher Pitman who was 12 when he did kill his grandparent...