Kip Kinkel killed his parents and killed two students. He open fired at Thurston High School, killing two students and injuring twenty-five. Kinkel had a very tough childhood. His relationship with his father, friends and family played a big role in this horrible event. The day he killed his parents and open fired in the high school and day that will not be forgotten. This event injured many people, made many people upset, and gave many other young kids an idea about bringing violence to their own
May 21st of 1998. A quiet boy named Kip Kinkel became known as “The Killer at Thurston High” after killing both of his parents, murdering two classmates, and severely injuring 24 others. There are many factors in the 15 year old boy’s life that led up to the horrific events that occurred on that day. The same factors that influenced the tragedy in occurring could have very easily insured that it never happened to begin with. On May 20th of 1998 Kip Kinkel was suspended from Thurston High for
murdering each other? Video games may not be the main cause, but they are a contributing factor. Some of things that can lead people to commit violent crimes are their home life, social settings and their mental state. Seung-Hui Cho, Marc Lepine and Kip Kinkel all came from hostile home environments. Marc Lepine, a man who killed 14 women and injured 13, was born in Montreal, Canada. His parent separated in result of his father being very abusive to him, his mother and sister. Scientific evidence has
most notorious school massacre was at Columbine High School. It was here, in 1999, that two male students murdered twelve students, one teacher, and then committed suicide (Internet Site #4). We viewed a film, The Killer at Thurston High, and saw Kip Kinkel not only shoot up his high school, but also murder his parents. These few extraordinary children strike fear in the hearts of America’s parents every morning when they send their own children off to school. However, the likelihood of a child being
Kip Kinkel and Michael Carneal have many factors in common, as well as many factors that they do not share between one another. The timing of the shootings were very close in range, Michael’s incident took place in 1997 and Kip’s barley a year later, in 1998. Both of the young men suffered from some form of psychological disorder, for Kip it was Major Depressive Disorder and in Michaels case, Paranoid Schizophrenia. Mental health concerns were present in both boys but as one can imagine the manifestation
Morley Callaghan’s novel More Joy in Heaven follows the short life of notorious bank robber and gunman Kip Caley. Callaghan's novel is based off and follows Red Ryan's now forgotten story almost word for word. Red Ryan and the fictional Kip Caley both face the effects of a being an outsider in a forceful, high-class society. Individuals and organizations play a huge responsibility role to ex-convicts; readers of More Joy in Heaven unfortunately see the side effects when selfishness and thirst for
On May 20, 1998, Kipland Phillip "Kip" Kinkel killed his parents and then went on to open fire at his school at Thurston High School the very next day. In this research paper, I will be posing the following questions that detail the different psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives of this event: To what extent did Kip Kinkel's mental health influence his actions? How do the education system and familial structures contribute to feelings of isolation and lead to violence in
Springfield, Oregon. The shooter was identified as Kipland F. Kinkel, a fifteen year old male, who shot his parents and proceeded to open fire in the high school cafeteria. Mayor Bill Kitzhaber made this statement after the incident, “We need to ask ourselves what kind of fear leads people to do something like this, what kind of lack of opportunity drives them to make this horrible choice,” (as cited in Claiborne, 1998). Throughout Kip Kinkel’s life many failings occurred, which leads to the evaluation
Introduction Mass murder is defined by the FBI as the killing of three or more people in a single event or in the same day (Petersen & Farrington, 2007). Mass murderers are complex and can be examined by the many factors that regularly appear among them, such as violence precipitating events, weapon of choice, and mental illnesses. The motivations and methods for committing mass murder are easily broken down into specific groups, and through the examination of these definitions and specific cases
biography.com/people/andrea-yates-235801 Excerpted from Findlaw.com: http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/the-m-naghten-rule.html#sthash.1PFCG9Sf.dpuf Frontline (1998, May 5). “Transcript of kip kinkel’s confession”Pbs.org. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kinkel/art/confess0.gif
When children commit a horrible act such as a school shooting their parents often look for someone or something to blame rather than looking at what role they, as parents, may have had in the tragedy. The often targeted entertainers, video game developers, teachers, drug companies, and writers are rarely, if ever, responsible for such tragic outcomes and, unfortunately, often become victims as a result of lawsuits filed in an attempt to place blame on them. The parents of dangerous children must
The Symptoms of Mental Illness: Judgment When someone thinks of a mental facility, they often imagine a grim place filled with people screaming and refusing to take their medications. But, facilities such as the Oregon State Hospital, are beautiful in the interior and exterior. In general, most psychiatric facilities look just like a typical hospital that you’d go to for a broken bone. With these misconceptions, also comes misconceptions of the mental illnesses that brought that person to the facility
Loukaitis was obsessed with Stephen King’s novel “Rage” (written under King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman), about a high-school student who kills his algebra teacher with a handgun. Kip Kinkel, on the morning of his attack, played Wagner’s “Liebestod” aria over and over. Evan Ramsey’s father thought his son was under the influence of the video game Doom. The parents of several of Michael Carneal’s victims sued the makers and distributors
community in making schools safer. Implementing a Parent Teacher Association (PTA), brings parents, administrators and teachers to collaborate on ways to make schools safer. Resources Organizations such as the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) work together with schools to collaborate with other community resources to serve and be advocates for students. Their commitment to the well-being of children through strong family and community engagement is their goal (pta.org). Making contact the PTA for
The names of those children were; Kip Kinkel, who decapitated cats, dissected live squirrels and blew up cows. Andrew Golden, shot dogs before he turned his guns on his classmates. Luke Woodham, beat and burned his own dog, Sparkle. Describing his dog’s painful and tortured death as a “thing of pure beauty”. Michael Corneal, threw a cat into a bonfire. All of these children were animal abusers and weren’t punished at that point. Only until they started to kill people; then society saw that they needed
The Cause Violent crimes occur for many different reasons. Students who rampaged through the high schools throughout the United States have all said to have one thing in common; their peers did not respect the attackers. These students say they have felt bullied, or not belonging or not fitting in to what the “popular” standards are. So why resort to anger? Many said it feels it gives them the respect that they were deprived of and what they felt they deserved. These students make national
In the article Threshold of Violence published by The New Yorker Magazine, author Malcolm Gladwell alludes to the cause of school shootings and why they transpire. Gladwell tries to make sense of the epidemic by consulting a study of riots by stanford sociologist Mark Granovetter. Granovetter sought to understand “why people do things that go against who they are or what they think is right, for instance, why typically non-violent, law-abiding people join a riot”(Granovetter). He concluded that
very hard things to do. A study found that in Texas when the “Right to carry” law became effective in 1995, Homicides and Man Slaughters went down from 9,000 people in 1995 to its lowest point in 2008 which is 5,000 people. (Just Facts 1) In 1998, Kip Kinkel went to his high school in Springfield with guns his parents bought to teach him how to shoot. He opened fire on the
Music's Impact on Violence On April 20, 1999, two teenagers killed 12 of their peers, a teacher, and themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. In Springfield, Oregon, Kip Kinkel murdered his parents and two students. In Edinboro, Pennsylvania, Andrew Wurst killed a teacher at an eighth-grade dance. Also in Pearl, Mississippi, Luke Woodham, murdered his parents and a classmate (Jipping 1). What do all of these events have in common? The facts of these and other instances
Animal cruelty encompasses a range of different behaviors harmful to animals, from neglect to malicious, brutal killings. Studies show that animal cruelty may lead to more serious forms of crime, like heavy drug use, violent outbursts, and most common, cold blooded murder. Many studies in psychology, sociology, and criminology during the last twenty-five years have demonstrated that violent offenders frequently have childhood and adolescent histories of serious and repeated animal cruelty. A