Purpose of the Study

The aim of this study is to differentiate the model for various school shooters on the basis of their characteristics. The study analyses the mental situation of the attackers before the attack took place. The study also has focused on various factors which are related to family environment, behavioural aspects for making the criminal activity in various cases of school shooters.

This study has discussed an offender’s profile based on his educational background which motivates the individual for making the crime. The concerned study has described the schooling and some factors such as family condition, behaviour of the offender which is responsible for a preparatory act in a destructive manner. Rampage school shooter has aggressive behaviourwhile their youths which is related to mental disorder. As per the study, the offenders in the school shooting have personality disorder, symptoms of depression, lack of empathy, paranoia, frustration and sadistic nature. 57% of the 28 school shooters are suffering from mental disorder and 71% are suffering from depression. They also have a tendency to attempt suicide.The range of age of the offenders is between 13 to 23 years.This study uses 40 school shooting cases as a sample and analyses the cases by using Smallest Space Analysis. This test produces a set of 18 variables which is associated with the offender’s characteristics. This test is useful as it reveals three distinct themes or characteristics such as rejected, disturbed and criminal school shooter.

As from this study, three distinct characteristics of the offenders such as criminal rejected and disturbed school shooter are revealed;in order to stop this criminal activity mental as well as psychological treatment can be provided prior making these dreadful events. The author Olivia Simpson worked in adobe as a data scientist. Thus, she is capable enough to deliver credible information. This study has described the theoretical implication of offender’s characteristics to understand the behaviour and crime of the school shooter. This article has the more potential to give the practical application to prevent such criminal activity. Thus, the study has limitation with the quality of data and invention strategy.

This study has developed a model to differentiate the school shooters on the basis of their characteristic before they attempt to attack. The author uses Smallest Space Analysis to compile the data from 40 school shooting cases. The result explores three distinct type of school shooter such as disturbed, criminal and rejected which are related to offender’s characteristics. Though there is no practical application the data is relevant to the given topic.

This case study is about child protection investigation. It uses large and credible dataset of sexual abuse cases. The purpose of this study is to narrate the characteristic of the siblings in sexual abuse cases. Another purpose is to investigate that whether the offenders involved in sexual abuse cases are siblings or non-siblings.

The author had explained the fact that child to child sexual activity and the sexual behaviour involved in siblings were not always considered as sexual abuse in the society. The experiences were presumed as normative sex play, consensual and exploration activities. So, there was a great misconception in understanding the sibling’s sexual abuse in society. This study showed that the young siblings and non-siblings up to 17 years are mostly involved in 35.6% sexual abuse cases and these incidents are mostly committed against minor. 16% of all young sex offenders aged 12 years and most of them are involved in forcible rape case. Most of the offenders are males and sufferers are female. According to the author, the sibling sexual offenders are characterized as anxious, narcissistic or antisocial features. The investigation on the children aged 0-15 years and other young perpetrator were acquired by using primary form of maltreatment. The investigation results on child maltreatment were collected from child welfare workers. In this investigation, a multi-stage sampling was designed to select cases from the child welfare sites. In this investigation, 112 children welfare sites out of 412 child welfare organisation were selected as a sample.

Findings of the Study

In this study, the characteristics and features of the sibling and non-siblings sexual offenders are described. In sexual abuse case, the investigation stage is the keystone of child protection system as it focuses determining the source of the offense, documenting the evidence and deciding the course of actions. If there is not sufficient information regarding the cases then for the CP workers, it might be difficult to solve the investigation.This can be one of the limitations of this study. The author name Collin-Vézina is the director of McGill centrewho researches on children and families.Thus, the author has credibility of delivering relevant data on sex offenders characterises. But this article has poor features as this study does not have done specific analysis with specific points. The comparison between the siblings and non-siblings offenders is not clearly depicted. Apart from these the resolution of this criminal activity is not clearly described that whether the siblings need to bring up separately or not.

This study provides suspected sexual abuse cases of siblings under the child protection investigation and analyses the characteristics of the young preparatory who are alleged for the sexual abuse cases. The information is crucial for the topic as it denotesfamily orblood relationshipas offender’s characteristics. This study reflects on this anti-social activity in society with some specifics cases and also describes the number of young offenders by the child protection investigation.

Here in this study, the researcher has tried to identify the impact of judgement on the offenders. On the other hand, the risk of reoffending has also been examined though this research. Past researches evidence that, most of the times the offenders commit more offences due to the punishment given to them or for the wrong judgement. It has been observed that, there is high risk of committing more offences by the offenders due to wrong judgement. This study mainly aims to investigate the significance of judgement and highlight its impact on the offenders.

This particular article has discussed the tendency of reoffending by the offenders. This study has shown seriousness of crime and its effect on judgement. The case study is conducted in Victoria, Australia and shows the maximum penalty one can get for sexual abuse. Reoffending characterises are static, unchangeable and dynamic. 552 educated adults are investigated with help of social media advertising in order to get required results. Manipulation check and community towards sex offenders were analysed. As per this study, if an offender has received a less serious judgment after committing a serious crime then the offender might be indulge in more offensive crime in future. This also determines that offenders’ characteristics involve past crime history where previous judgment has a strong influence on the offender’s criminal mind. The study has evaluated the fact that there must be a level of judgement where seriousness of the crime can be measures.

The above-identified article is all about the impact of reoffending the risk and seriousness offence on the judgement. The study lacks judgement and thus it result the risk of reoffending. Education and age does play a vital role for creating a deep impact on the judgement. Lack of relevant and specific data is one of the major limitations of this study. In addition to this, the data collection process was not as per the requirement of the research. The author only focused on small group of sample size and thus accurate data was not collected. The tools used for analysing the collected data failed to give an accurate outcome. This results a lack in identification between direct victims and non-direct victims.

Limitations of the Study

After above discussion, it has been understood that age and education both plays vital role in shaping human characteristics. This article recommends how these two variables are affecting offender’s lives. It has been suggested that while judging a sex offender, the judgement should be provided for mitigating the motivators, which is liable for the offense. This study clearly indicates how sex offenders should be treated and what influence them in reoffending. Both positive and negative impacts of sex offences in community have been discussed properly in this study. Apart from this, the article also narrated the characteristics of offenders and risks of reoffending significantly.

Conclusion:

In the above study, the characteristics of school shooters are discussed. It has been found in several studies that there are various reasons for their behaviours. The reason may be the family environment, any past incident of their lives. The study of Ioannou, Hammond & Simpson, (2015), focuses on the motivation of the school shooters. They might have faced a bad incident during their school lives. Depression has also been found in the characteristics of school shooters. Association with lower standard people has also been found a major factor that has become a characteristic of school shooters. From the study, it has been found that school shooters were found to suffer from depression and has been found to have psychiatric history. It focuses on the offender’s seriousness and about their reoffending characteristics.

However, Collin-Vézinaet al. (2014) opines that tiweHhe way of behaving people with offender is different. It has been found in the study that people support the treatment of sex offender but they did not support the treatment in their society. On the other hand, Weiner, Shackley & Day (2014) stated that the impact of sex offender and the behaviours and attitude of people towards sex offender. There is a different type of sex offender according to the variation in age. The treatment of a sex offender is sometimes ineffective based on situations. From the above discussion, it has been found that one of the offender’s characteristics is sexual abuse. The young offenders are committed to the sexual abuse and it is mostly found among the siblings and non-siblings minors. The age difference between the siblings was a big factor but now it is accepted that in sibling sexual abuse cases the age difference is not good sign.

Finally it can be concluded that child protection process is complex in the sexual abuse cases as it affects the present as well as future lives of the alleged and victims. According to the child protection investigation, the number of young offenders is more than the number of overall offenders. Sibling offenders have experienced child sexual abuse and other forms of violence and dysfunction of the family than non-siblings offenders. Family, environments, behaviour, level of education all are the factors which are directly or indirectly responsible for the preparatory act.

Adolescent young siblings and non-siblings sex offenders alleged for a number of child abuse cases are far from the trivial. It has been identified that previous judgments affect the young offenders as well as victims and their family. The investigation used some children welfare sites as a sample and collects all relevant data from the child welfare workers. From this discussion, it can be concluded that offending activity not only depends on the offenders but also the surrounding environment, family background, behaviour etc.