Seung-Hui Cho

Applying Crime Theories to Seung-Hui Cho Tragedy struck Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, when Seung-Hui Cho opened fire on his college, campus killing thirty-two people. His family had reason to believe that something like this could happen as the result of Cho’s odd behaviors. The list of symptoms that Seung-Hui Cho displayed is practically endless, and most, if not all, can be related to different crime theories. Crime theories can be used to help explain what leads someone to commit a crime. Cho’s family reported that he very rarely talked as a child and spent a lot of time by himself, not wanting to engage in activities with other children. When people tried talking to Cho, he would not even acknowledge their presence. As a result, Cho would not do what he was asked to such a degree that he was being defiant. These behaviors of staying to one’s self and not interacting with others are common to people who are introverts. Introverts fall under the category of personality in Psychological Trait Theories. Being an introvert…

the school, one of the biggest being that the “Top tier status” of the school might be affected. The reason why students and faculty members feel that the top tier status will be effected is because they believe their safety is threatened leaving a hostile learning environment on campus . One notable faculty member ( President Ricardo Romo) has stated his similar viewpoint. He said that “Campus carry is a distraction from our mission of providing excellence to our students and our community.”…

did not have the mental illness, she was greatly affected by mine because we both knew I needed help, but I could not bring myself to get it because of the negative stigma associated with my illness. Mental illness can also have a major impact on the general public as well. Untreated severe mental illnesses are particularly significant in homicides; such illness is even more significant for mass murders of strangers (Kopel). In 2007, Seung Hui Cho opened fire at Virginia Tech, killing 32…

Seung-Hui Cho was enrolled at Virginia Tech University, where he majored in English to become a writer. His parents, who were hard working, took care of his college expenses while other college students used their parent’s money for the wrong reasons. Cho didn’t like that. Cho was labeled a “failure” because the book he written and proposed was rejected. No clarification onto why it was rejected. That right there could’ve been part of the reason he went on the rampage killing 32 students and…

that a few days before the shooting Mr. Harper answered a question in which Levine told him he was “kind of correct” (Turkewitz). Tracy Heu is a nursing student who was in the classroom during Harper-Mercer’s attack and witnessed what exactly happened during the shooting. Laurel Harper is the mother of Christopher Harper-Mercer, who encouraged his love of guns and went shooting with him all the time, and it was also known that she and her son both have Asperger’s. The impact this had on Umpqua…

On April 16, 2007 a student at Virginia Tech murdered and injured a large number of fellow students and faculty. Prior to the incident, he had displayed signs of violent thoughts and behavior to his instructors. As a younger child, he had also been troubled. However, at that age, he had received psychiatric help due to his parents’ involvement (Virginia Tech Review Panel). It is possible that if he had received help as an adult, this crisis could have been avoided. Unfortunately, the student’s…

The article, Neurodevelopmental and psychosocial risk factors in serial killers and mass murderers inquired on the rare events of mass murders and serial killers as they impact society. There is a difference between serial and mass murders, as there is a difference between Seung-Hui Cho and Richard Ramirez. Serial killings are individuals who committed three or more murders over a period of time, could be months or years, with cooling periods between the murders. Mass murders typically take…

difference in the actual adherence to the policy in real life. And such disparities vary among different autonomous regions. For example, Ningxia, a neighboring province to Xinjiang, the religious policies are much laxer than those in Xinjiang yet social unrest is virtually unheard of in Ningxia. Similarly in Gansu, a province to the east of Ningxia, Muslims also practice their religion more freely. Mosques are easily found in villages and the religious leader use the village’s PA system to call…

several theorems related to it (Coolidge, 1949, p151). Although the original work from Al-Karaji had lost, the later Persian mathematician Khayyam (1048-1122) referred Al-Karaji’s work about Pascal’s Triangle and uses it to find the nth roots according to the binomial expansion. Also around 11th century, Chinese mathematician Jia Xian (1010-1070) used Pascal’s Triangle to extract square roots and cube roots – more details will be mentioned later in this paper. He wrote down his discovery in the…

In 1996 mount Everest made its mark on history again with yet another large disaster. The night of May 10 eight climbers lost their lives to Everest in a 12 hour period. With a total of 12 deaths in total that month. At the end of april 1996 three expeditions set out to summit Everest with a total of 33 climbers on the mountain, on may 10 nineteen climbers were trapped in the death zone (above 8 000 meters) that night of May tenth. In extreme cases like the ‘96 disaster people are presented with…