On the night of September 23 on the campus of North Carolina Central University went into lockdown. At the time I was in my dorm room with my roommate Jada wondering what was going on. It wouldn’t be until morning that we find out that someone who had a gun on our campus was killed by an NCCU officer. The man, Tracy Bost was reported to be near the campus had a gun and pointed it at university officers which eventually resulted in his death. Many factors could have led Tracy Bost to make the decisions he made on that night a few of which I believe were neglect, broken home, and general strain theory.
By the time Tracy Bost was three years old he was already dealing with the system. According to (McDonald, 2013) he was three when police took …show more content…
General strain theory has three parts to it 1) when a person fails to achieve positive goals, 2) when they have someone or something positive in their life taken away, and 3) when the person is surrounded by negative stimuli. For the first part of strain theory once Tracy Bost had grown up, it was hard for him to find jobs do to his past criminal history. Tracy had been in trouble since he was a teen and all of the trouble started to catch up with him. Because it was hard for Tracy to find work it was hard for him to find money. “Rob somebody. Break into houses. Steal guns. He said it was fast money and good money.” Says Rowell who at the time was his pregnant girlfriend (McDonald, 2015). Tracy could find a job so he failed to achieve positive goals and started to find work in a negative way. For a while Bost was in and out of jail serving time in different jails. One of the sentences was because someone fired gunshots near him and he ran too far while wearing house arrest bracelet. He thought he would get in trouble so he cut it off and then was sent to jail. He was also sent to jail for getting into an altercation with an officer right after. All of this time that Bost would spend in jail would result in him not being able to see Rowell or his son. Rowell and Bost’s son were the positive things in his life that were taken away every time he would have to go to jail. While Bost was in jail he lived with other inmates who were in there for different reasons, he was always being surrounded by negative
By the time Tracy Bost was three years old he was already dealing with the system. According to (McDonald, 2013) he was three when police took …show more content…
General strain theory has three parts to it 1) when a person fails to achieve positive goals, 2) when they have someone or something positive in their life taken away, and 3) when the person is surrounded by negative stimuli. For the first part of strain theory once Tracy Bost had grown up, it was hard for him to find jobs do to his past criminal history. Tracy had been in trouble since he was a teen and all of the trouble started to catch up with him. Because it was hard for Tracy to find work it was hard for him to find money. “Rob somebody. Break into houses. Steal guns. He said it was fast money and good money.” Says Rowell who at the time was his pregnant girlfriend (McDonald, 2015). Tracy could find a job so he failed to achieve positive goals and started to find work in a negative way. For a while Bost was in and out of jail serving time in different jails. One of the sentences was because someone fired gunshots near him and he ran too far while wearing house arrest bracelet. He thought he would get in trouble so he cut it off and then was sent to jail. He was also sent to jail for getting into an altercation with an officer right after. All of this time that Bost would spend in jail would result in him not being able to see Rowell or his son. Rowell and Bost’s son were the positive things in his life that were taken away every time he would have to go to jail. While Bost was in jail he lived with other inmates who were in there for different reasons, he was always being surrounded by negative