Project Homework
You will review one of the juvenile mass school shooter cases listed below. A couple of them also killed one, or both, parents, in addition to students at school. Each of these juvenile mass school shooters was "bound over" to adult court, tried, and sentenced as adults.
i. Kip Kinkel
ii. Charles Andrew Williams
iii. Barry Loukaitis
iv. Michael Carneal
v. Luke Woodham
vi. Thomas "T.J." Lane
For this Project, you are to apply your own state and case law, identify forensic risk homework factors, and evaluate your own biases pertaining to the case you chose.
Task
Write a 10 to 12 pages in which you do the following:
i. Review/research current state laws pertaining to juveniles "bound over" to adult court. Provide an analysis of your state laws regarding juveniles sentenced as adults. If you are an international student, you may use your local or regional laws.
ii. Evaluate risk factors that may have contributed to the shooter's actions. Be sure to include developmental risk factors.
iii. Recommend forensic risk homework instruments that would be appropriate to be used in evaluating risk specific to this case.
iv. Evaluate your own personal biases, which may lead to weaknesses regarding how you effectively communicate the results of the forensic homework where the defendant is a juvenile given a life sentence.
v. Explain ethical concerns that may impact your work on this case.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.