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Fatherless homes a key factor in school shootings, teen delinquency ...
From Adam Lanza, who killed 26 children and adults a year ago at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn., to Karl Pierson, who shot a teenage girl and killed himself this past Friday at Arapahoe High in Centennial, Colo., one common and largely unremarked thread tying together ... Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson has written that “Family structure is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictor of variations in urban violence across cities in the United States.
Comparing Adam Lanza's DNA to Forensic DNA Databases: A ...
Days after the Newtown shootings of December 14, 2012, headlines trumpeted the state medical examiner's request of University of Connecticut geneticists to examine mass murderer Adam Lanza's DNA. What exactly that might entail wasn't announced, but celebrity docs, geneticists, and bloggers weighed in, nearly all agreeing that (1) violent tendencies are due to complex interactions of many genetic and environmental factors and (2) probing Lanza's DNA and ...
Inside the Mind of School Shooters | College of Education
In fact, violent crime in general has gone down over the last 20 years in the U.S.
However, ... You don't just wake up one day and become a mass murderer. ...
Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook [Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20
children ... Sometimes they get into trouble with the law, sometimes drugs or
alcohol.
Richard Slotkin on Guns and Violence | Moyers & Company ...
Dec 13, 2013 ... Did violent video games play a role in preparing Adam Lanza to commit mass
murder? One year after Newtown, Bill explores violence in America with the ...
Slotkin talks about Lanza's apparent obsession with violent video games and
mass ... “The lone killer is trying to validate himself or herself in terms of ...
Fatal Distraction: Manhood, Guns, & Violence – By Allan Johnson
Voice Male contributing editor ALLAN JOHNSON, a member of the magazine's national advisory board, has written several books, including The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy and the domestic violence novel, The First Thing .... All of it flows from an obsession with control that shapes every man's standing as a real man in this society. ... The Newtown murderer, after all, used weapons belonging to his mother, which she had taught him how to use.
Sandy Hook Report Released, But Still No Motive ... - Newtown Patch
"He had a familiarity with and access to firearms and ammunition and an obsession with mass murders, in particular the April 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado," the report said. The report .... IMO, this is WHY the good folks at CAGV, March for Change, et. al. regularly ignore the mental health and societal aspects of rampage violence - because the "causes" or at least the factors common to all such killers, are pervasive and all around us. So since ...
Violence stories at Techdirt.
Dec 3, 2013 ... It's completely unsurprising that those who had played Grand Theft Auto ...
Lessons Learned From Adam Lanza's Video Game Obsession: Blame .... in
overall aggression and violent tendencies that occurred very soon after ... violent
"zombie" video games in his room, sometimes from 12.30pm until 4.30am.
Comments on "Newtown Shootings: A Caution About Violence and ...
Dec 20, 2012 ... SSRI's are some of the top drugs that cause violence. ... The medical profession
has moved from an expensive, time consuming, .... some of the antipsychotics
can cause violent tendencies and even suicide. hence black box labels. .... NY
subway killer had history of violence... and refused to take her meds.
Daily Kos: Parent taught him about Guns, and Newtown Shooter ...
Mar 30, 2013 ... These evermore frequent "Glory Killer" attempts at achieving personal ... (Or to
our media obsession with "Exactly WHAT made this shooter tick . ...... people's
violent tendencies, it has to do with sometimes, particularly in asia, ...
Police file on Newtown yields chilling portrait - KTIV News 4 Sioux ...
3 hours ago ... La. police: Killer's wife suffocated, drowned ... back seat of a Las Vegas taxi has
given $10,000 to the honest cabbie who returned the money. .... like this, but
Adam's level of violence was disturbing," the teacher told investigators. ...
symptoms of being "slightly OCD," meaning obsessive compulsive disorder.
CONFIRMED: Sandy Hook Kindergarten Killer's Mom Had Nothing ...
Then this from the WSJ - A former school board official in Newtown called into question earlier reports that Nancy Lanza had been connected to Sandy Hook Elementary School, possibly as part of the teaching staff. “No one has .... Maybe there are ones who have violent tendencies, I'd think that's some other kind of disorder though. Sam says: ... Not saying he had it, but my limited knowledge of Aspergers says that they tend to be obsessive compulsive and not violent.
Newtown Shootings: A Caution About Violence and SSRIs ...
As the debate moves forward about how to keep events like the shooting in Newtown from happening, the inevitable topic that comes up is how to best detect and treat young people with mental illness. Many of our politicians have opined on this subject, sometimes as a way of deflecting from the issue of gun control. While it is obvious that better ... There has recently been a great deal of debate about the effectiveness of such medications. But more relevant to the ...
Don't Blame Autism for Newtown - NYTimes.com
Dec 17, 2012 ... Words used to describe the killer, Adam Lanza, began with “odd,” ... By Sunday, it
had snowballed into a veritable storm of accusation and stigmatization. ... like
obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. ... do not
increase a person's tendency toward outward-directed violence.
Autism and Violence: From Newtown to Norway - AGE OF AUTISM
The Norway killer apparently suffers from a delusional disorder, not autism. Prior to ... I've evaluated 6,500 autism patients over the years and the most cases involving violent behaviors were adults who had never received biochemical therapies until adulthood and had developed mental retardation. ... Autistic persons and ASPD criminals both exhibit undermethylation, toxic metal overload, OCD tendencies, socialization deficits, and evidence of epigenetic causation.
The Realities and Legacy of Newtown, Part III | Stately McDaniel ...
There was no evidence-earlier in life or recently–that Adam Lanza planned to do violence to anyone and none whatever of a school attack of any kind. Lanza killed his mother as she slept with one of the most common rifles in ...
Mother shared her gun obsession with school shooter Adam Lanza ...
Dec 16, 2012... on to her kids,” said her former landscaper and occasional drinking buddy Dan
Holmes. ... REMEMBERING KIDS KILLED IN NEWTOWN MASSACRE ... The
killer had a water phobia when he was younger, Holmes said. ... Autism expert
Nancy Alspaugh-Jackson said violent tendencies toward others are ...