Us U.S, one of the major concerns in schools is precisely with regard to students who organize a massacre. And, therefore, there are many studies to understand this behavior. In this article, we will bring the conclusion of researchers after analyzing a database on the subject.
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A university in the United States, more precisely Columbia University, together with researchers and specialists in the forensic area, carried out studies and analyzes in cases of school massacres to learn more about the behavior of Murderers. This survey revealed that serious psychiatric illnesses are absent in most perpetrators of these massacres.
The research team at Columbia University, led by Ragy RR. Girgis, a doctor of psychiatry, found that 100% of the murders were carried out by men with an average age of 28 years. Of these, 66.7% were Caucasian, and firearms were present in 63% of the murders.
Despite the absence of psychiatric illnesses or psychotic disorders, it is noted that half of the perpetrators took their own lives at the scene after carrying out the massacre. This fact led researchers to assume a final act feeling in these shooters.
“Our findings suggest that mass school shootings differ from other forms of mass murder and that they should be viewed as a distinct phenomenon,” says Dr. Girgis.
To conduct the study, researchers collected information from the Columbia Mass Murder Database. This is a database developed to obtain a better view of the relationship between serious psychiatric illnesses and these murders. To create this database, there was a review of 14,785 murders publicly described in English, in print or online, that occurred worldwide between the years 1900 and 2019.
After the analyses, what can be concluded about the discoveries is that, according to the researchers, it can help authorities and legislators to understand the phenomenon of massacres a little better school. This is because they differ from other types of mass murders, and they also help to identify young people. that may be problematic, but that do not necessarily need to have some kind of psychological illness serious. The authors emphasize that these data cannot be used to predict behavior at an individual level.
