A state autopsy determined that the Black man found hanging in an abandoned Alabama home died by suicide, according to the local sheriff Associated PressJan. 3, 2025 Justice Department Enters Consent Decree With Fulton County Over Jail Conditions ...
state crimehuman rightsThe argument presented in this paper is that the failure of the United States federal government to enact adequate gun control laws that would help prevent school shootings is a state crime by omission. Drawing on international law, as critical criminologists have recommended ...
The purpose of the present study is to determine the relationship between school shootings and state and Federal gun control laws. Using a Poisson, two-way fixed effects model, it was found that assault weapons bans reduced the number of school shooting victims by 54.4%. All other gun control...
(KEE)andurbanicity—were associatedwithschoolshootingsduringthisperiod. MethodsWesearchedLexisNexis,anewspaperand broadcastmediadatabasesforschoolshootingincidents from1January2013to31December2015.Presenceof BClawswasextractedfromlegalinformationin LexisNexis.State-levelcovariatesofpercapitaMHE (2013),KEE(2013)and...
Each decade has seen an increase in school shootings, but none nearly as dramatic as the 2020s. Through the 1970s, there were an average 17 school shootings per year. The 1980s saw a small increase to 22 per year. There were 29 per year through the 1990s, and 36 per year through th...
Police later obtained a search warrant and uncovered “internet searches, drawings and documents related to threats of mass violence,” officials said. Some recent searches included queries about gun ranges, prison sentences and a long list of past sch...
The gunman who killed 19 elementary school children and two teachers in Texas added to the state's grim recent history of mass shootings.
The youngest killed in the attack that has inspired dozens of copy cat shootings was Steven Curnow, 14. The oldest was teacher Dave Sanders, 47, who shepherded students out of the cafeteria to safety and was shot as he tried to get students upstairs into classrooms. ...
How police respond to mass shootings around the countryhas been scrutinizedsince the tragedy in Uvalde, about 85 miles southwest of San Antonio. In Texas,Republican Gov. Greg Abbottinitially praised the courage of officers' response and blame was later cast heavily on local authorities in Uvalde....
Hundreds of people who say they suffered physical or sexual abuse at two state-run reform schools in Florida are in line to receive tens of thousands of dollars in restitution from the state, after Florida lawmakers formally apologized for the horrors they endured as children more than 5...