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A 5 page paper that examines the pattern of modern crime and explores its effect on victims, offenders, and society. This paper focuses on the juvenile crime wave that began during the last half of the twentieth century and has continued into the twenty-first. Emphasis is placed on both the Columbine tragedy of 1999 and the Michigan tragedy of 2000. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_LCSounds.doc
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vision softly creeping, Left its seeds while I was sleeping, And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains Within the sound of silence. - Paul Simon, The
Sound of Silence (Simon, 1965). The first spring of a new century is slowly turning to summer in Michigan, and sixty-five miles northwest of Flint the sun lingers longer each
day across the sprawling brick structure that is home to the working class suburbs elementary school. Outside, above the main entrance, a sign proudly proclaimed "We (heart) our children
and we care for their safety" until late February, when safety became a thing of the past for Buell Elementary and the citizens of Mount Morris Township (Howlett, 2000; p.
03A). Inside, within Room 6, twenty-two students proudly occupied twenty-two small desks until late February, when first grade became a thing of the past for six-year-old Kayla Renee Rolland
and the classmate, also age six, who ended her life with a .32 caliber handgun (p. 03A). Summer will never again come for Kayla, and the parents of Mount Morris
Township wonder if summer will ever be the same for the 20 first grade students that watched this tragedy unfold amid the crayon rainbows and red paper hearts that made
up the world of Room 6. They worry about trauma. They worry about safety. They worry about a world where even a first grade classroom offers no
safety for a six-year-old and where both murdered and murderer can be classified as victims. The first spring of this new century is turning to summer in Colorado, also, a
summer that has been heralded into the Rocky Mountains by the sounds of silence. This past April 20, at 11:21 A.M. Mountain Time, a hush fell across the state
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