PSY341H1S L8; July 31, 2013 o Most didn’t participate in school sports
Conduct Disorder o Computer wizes
From the last video, we didn’t see a lot of Evan’s bhvr – he o Many mesmorized by fantasy school massacre from a
seemed quite passive movie
o CD requires person be aggressive to other ppl, things o Feeling they were being picked on
o Love of guns
o Sympathy directed towards Evan
o We only hear about his actions o Avid readers of gun magazines – directed towards
o He’s called “the trouble maker” young men, has nudity
o 7 of 8 got the guns from their own home or a neighbour
Let’s look at it from another perspective
o Littleton, Colorado: April 20, 1999 Time of terror
o Columbine high school – two 18yr old teenage boys o Flashbacks
o Insomnia, crying
murdered classmates, a faculty member, shot
themselves to death o Parents affected as well
Prior criminal records o Josh, Bri – ppl shot around them
Shot guns, pipe bombs Father encourages josh to talk
o Has happened in other countries, and has happened Both trapped in library (primary killing ground, 10
since shot)
o A wake up call – shocking because of the scale on which Jocks first asked to stand up
“Anyone with a sports cap on or emblem in dead”
it occurred
o Front page of USA Today: Students massacred in Colo. Talking about it can begin the healing
o Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold had planned this Kids want to get it out
meticulously in a suburban middle class garage & Otherwise, come to slow steady standstill
carried it out (planned to kill more ppl) Bri feels guilt because she said she didn’t want to die
o Are they conduct disordered? No rational explanation – so the kids make them up
o Is there a psychopathology?
Kids seem strong for now
1 video clip: from 48 Hours (occurred in the last two days) Part 2
Who these ppl are
Many empty threats on other schools
Part 1 Studies show students, not adults, are most likely
Filmed 48 hrs after it occurred knowledgeable about violent classmates
Who were Eric & Dylan?
o Need way to report
What were the circumstances in which they found Before: Springfield, Oregon
themselves? Before: Jownsbarow, Arkansas
Why did they do what they did?
Before: Paducah, Kentucky
Who were they? o Dec 1 1997
What was the envt around them? o Missy Jenkins: Vivid memories constantly replay
Is this disordered psychopathological bhvr or is it simply o 3 students killed by Michael Carneel
criminal? o Shot Missy in back paralyzed
Try to determine the cause Missy – sounds like firecrackers
Monuments
Self-described “Black Trench Coat Mafia” Asking for $130 million
Human damage Pushing against video games, porn websites
o Victims still w pencils in their hands The Basketball Diaries – dream sequence, Leonardo
Many options Dicaprio massacres students & teachers while in a black
o Ppl might’ve assisted before & during trench coat
o A lot of preparation – some devices might’ve already Videogame Doom – palyed by Carneel, kids in Colorado
been in the school o Make a hero out of a killer
Associated ppl, dressed similarly Missy doesn’t think the video is responsible
o Interviews & released
o She doesn’t’ understand why anyone hasn’t learned
The notes:
o hatred, deep seated feelings of unhappiness & revenge Part 3
Profile of a killer: Marefield, Iowa
o Luke Wilerm – shooting rampage at his highschool in November 1997
1997 Two 18yr olds
o Carried his weapon underneath trench coat to school
Killing & maiming 23 cats in a cat shelter
o Resentment towards athletes Malice, anger, hatred
The most recent 8 massacres are similar Ppl thought they wouldn’t go to jail
o Male
Many weren’t worried
o White Two psychologists disagreed – animal abuse, warning signs
o From suburbs – everyone surprised
Pressure where both parents have to work Study shows animal abusers 5 times more likely like
peers to commit criminal offenses
fulltime jobs o 3 times more likely for substance abuse
o Lived w working mothers & fathers o Red flag, warning sign o In DSM Suggests that watching violent media causes
Man beat, stabbed dog, watched her burn to death violent bhvr – unacceptable conclusion since it’s a
Months later: killed mother, stabbed 2 students correlational study
Morrisey wants psychiatric evaluation of the two boys before Need to take 2 grps of children: subject 1 grp to
it’s too late violent media, other grp to Barney
o Chad’s father thinks his son is normal Not ethical!
Denial So these studies haven’t been conducted
Judge suspended prison sentence 1 day in jail for each cat Possibly, aggressive children seek out violent
media
killed (23 days)
o Also 3 yrs in a youth offender program – receive
counselling
2ndvideo clip: Potential causes (specifically envt’al)
o One of the harshest sentences in the country for animal
abuse What the media says about the causes of this particular
incident
Rmbr in the last video, Mike kicked the dog – indicative of Ppl have had access to guns for yrs
what he might do to ppl Something must’ve happened recently
These two boys mutilated cats “our children are raised by the media”
o Higher intensity than kicking a dog
Gratuitous violence
o Clearly indicative of something abnormal Cosovo: Kids pick up hatred
o I don’t care about myself, I don’t care about society
Part 4 link self to grps
Mourning the dead 3 days later Learn from an early age how to put ppl down
The seniors were 3 wks away from graduate o More gratifying at an early age to put someone down
Loren – killed than compliment them
o Had plans for future o Children make artificial distinctions
o Honor students Is this revenge of the nerds?
o Captain of girls varsity volleyball team Feel rejected
Greg didn’t deal well in epilogue Kids immersed in violent imagery
Parents afraid that the kids will be forgotten Research: effect of violence in television on kids is same as
effect of cigarette smoke on cancer
Class Discussion Should tax violent movies use money to help victims
Are Eric & Dylan conduct disordered? It takes the human will to pick up a gun and use it
o Angry young men – are they?
Want g-d back in schools moral standards
o Are they evil or are they mentally disturbed? Spiritual emptiness
o Perhaps had Depression Kids involved in a kind of loving spiritual religion often don’t
o Lack of impulsivity
have these psychopathologies
Premeditated – indicates criminally ill o Give them something to fall back on
o Answer: Not clear o Limits their rage
By definition, is clearer (delinquency vs CD)
The boys believe their right to do their violent actions
A lot of research looking at Antisocial Personality Disorder Harris, Klebold families – sent out sympathies via media
o Many who do very well in life – CEOs o Want privacy
They do whatever it takes
“worst shooting in US history at a school”
What connects these offenders? Background info:
o Feel picked on, bullied o Upper income neighbourhood
o Quiet
o Preoccupation w violent tools o Eric = quiet
o Nice families
esp love of guns o Neighbour overheard a convo the week before about
o Suburban, middle-class background
Families absent, working using glass for a bomb, heard constant glass bashing
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