For your Final Project, you will review one of the following 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.
o Kip Kinkel
o Charles Andrew Williams
o Barry Loukaitis
o Michael Carneal
o Luke Woodham
o Thomas “T.J.” Lane
For this Final Project, you must search the Walden Library and the internet for
resources (e.g., video documentaries, books, scholarly articles, or credible web
resources) relevant to the case you selected to support your Final Project analysis.
As part of your Final Project, you are required to include 8-10 citations derived from
your research, of which you must include a minimum of 5 peer-reviewed articles.
Please be aware that non-professional, user-created websites such as Wikipedia will
not be accepted as academic/scholarly references.
Be sure to cite relevant information from the APA “Ethical Principles of Psychologists
and Code of Conduct, APA-LR “Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology,”, and/or
APA “Multicultural Guidelines: An Ecological Approach to Context, Identity, and
Intersectionality, 2017.” These resources can be found in the Week 10 Learning
Resources.
Use the APA Course Paper Template (APA 7) found in the Week 10 Learning
Resources to complete your Final Project.
Assignment (10- to 12-pages, not including title page and references page)
Applying your own state and case law*, identify forensic risk assessment factors, and
evaluate your own biases, pertaining to the case you chose by doing the following:
• Provide a 1-page summary of your chosen case
• Evaluate risk factors that may have contributed to the shooter’s actions. Be sure to
include developmental risk factors.
• Identify what mitigating factors that could have been implemented to take the TSV
offender off the pathway to violence.
• Identify each of the 8 warning behaviors present in your case
• Analyze the difference between risk and threat assessment
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• Recommend forensic risk assessment instruments that would be appropriate to be
used in evaluating risk specific to this case.
• Evaluate your own personal biases, which may lead to weaknesses regarding how
you effectively communicate the results of the forensic assessment where the
defendant is a juvenile given a life sentence.
• 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.*
• Explain ethical concerns that may impact your work on this case