First and Last Words: Apprehending the Social and Legal Facts of an Urban High School Shooting  

Oleh:

Hagan, John ; Hirschfield, Paul ; SHEDD, CARLA

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) vol. 31 no. 02 (Nov. 2002), page 218-254.
Topik: Urban school violence; rural and suburban school shootings; first-degree homicide; deadly school shootings
Fulltext: SMR 3102 1102 218-254_SA.pdf (174.54KB)

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Urban school violence is common and when it becomes fatal constitutes a neglected theoretical counterpoint to highly publicized rural and suburban school shootings. Joseph White shot and killed Delondyn Lawson and injured two other youths at Tilden High School in the last fatal Chicago school shooting nearly a decade ago. This event was portrayed in extensive news coverage as random and senseless and by a jury trial as a first-degree homicide that was inexcusable as self-defense. Journalism often is described as the first draft of history, and trials often are seen as the more definitive record. Yet neither journalism nor trials are comprehensive sources of social history, especially of social conflict. The authors demonstrate that journalistic accounts can prejudge and stereotype lethal school violence, that trials often further depict these conflicts in legally authoritative but restricted and misleading ways, and that an exclusive focus on rural and suburban settings obscures a broader theoretical understanding of deadly school shootings.

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