DB Forum 3 My Case study MT. MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (ABC)- A 6 year-old boy accused of a fatal shooting of a classmate at Elementary school near flint, Mich., is too young to face criminal charges, persecutors said. Instead, persecutors will focus on how the child got the gun used in the killing, which may have occurred as a result of a playground scuffle. We’re looking to see how the kid got that gun and if we get to that person we will prosecute them to the Fullest extent of the law, Genesee County Prosecutor Arthur Bush told ABCNEWS, GOOD MORNING AMERICA. When Tamarla Owens’ 6 year-old son shot a classmate early this year in Flint, Mich., many wondered Just how that child could become a killer.
By 8 months of age, object of permanence begin to emerge because infants begin to develop memory for objects that are not perceived (Myers, 2013). 1c. Piaget further explains that after object permanence emerged, children at 8 months start to develop stranger anxiety where they would often cry in front of strangers and reach for someone who is familiar to them (Myers, 2013). Both object permanence and stranger anxiety emerge around the same time because children are able to remember and build schemas. While Piaget’s cognitive theory consists of four stages (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational) that children go through as they grow, McCrink and Wynn proposed a different theory of cognitive development.
To further understand a how a crime can be committed by a young child, Albert Bandura’s theory that humans can learn without reinforcement called “modeling” is a good explanation. Bandura defines modeling as “people copying what they see others do” (p.42). The results we see in a young child’s behavior are resulted from biological development, as well. First, let’s explore two critical parts of a 6 year old child’s brain; the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex. The limbic system is the part of the brain divided in three major areas controlling expression and regulation of emotion.
I will be explaining the principle psychological perspectives applied to the understanding of the development of individuals. One of the major theorists of cognitive development was Jean Piaget, who argued that cognitive development occurs in four different stages: 1. The sensori-motor stage (0-2 Years): during this stage children are very egocentric; they cannot see the world from the viewpoints of others. From birth to around 1 month old, infants use reflexes like rooting and sucking, relying on their five senses to explore the world around them. A couple of months on from this stage, an infant would learn to coordinate sensation with two types of schema: habit and circular reactions, causing a primary circular reaction.
In Chapter 5 of Essentials of Life Span Development we learned about the physical and cognitive development in early childhood. The average child grows 2 and a half inches in height and gains 5 and 7 pounds a year during early childhood. Growth patterns vary from one child to another, though. Some of the brain’s increase in size in early childhood is due to increase in the number and size of dendrites, some to myelination. From ages 3 to 16, the most rapid growth in the brain occurs in the frontal lobes.
Motor and gross skills are also being development and improved. Cognitive Development in chapter 9 is “describing thinking and learning from ages 2 to y6, including advances in thought, language, and education, and explores how this develops.” (Berger, 2011, p. 237) In Piaget and Vygotsky, their theories have some commonalities of how children think verses what they say. Piaget’s “Preoperational Thinking” theory says “preschoolers usually cannot perform logical operations. They
Officer Weekley does not have 100% credibility in this situation because he was sued in 2007 with other members of the SWAT team for allegedly shooting two dogs and pointing a gun at children during a raid. So this is not the first incident where he was accused of making unethical decisions. Weekley was a six-year veteran of Detroit’s special response team at the time so he is seasoned and would have been expected to have better control of his weapon. Prior to joining Detroit’s Special Weapons and Tactics team, Weekley was a patrol officer for Detroit. He also worked part time for Armored Personnel Carrier services.
If that question is asked at a table usually people would say “No”. A long time ago that answer would have no opposition, but now with the recent murders of students on school grounds that answer is not so easy to answer. In 2006 after the recent shootings in Colorado, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania a representative by the name of Frank Lease, a Green Bay legislator. Planned to introduce a legislation that would allow faculty to carry concealed weapons on school grounds as a deterrent against shootings. Allowing faculty to carry firearms can have an effect on mass shootings at schools.
If crime can be scientifically proven to say that crime can be, or is inherited, then what about the children who have criminals as parents? With that being said, is there help for these children who are born having parents for criminals? It is said that traits associated with criminality have a genetic basis [ (Siegel, 2011) ]. In this theory, or view, genetic makeup is carried on to children, antisocial behavior is inherited and abnormality is tied to a wide range of antisocial behavior [ (Siegel L. J., 2011) ]. Though hard to determine rather antisocial behavior and genetic makeup is linked to being inherited, or just a product of a learned behavior; criminologists have tested the effects of inheritance on crime [ (Siegel L. J., 2011) ].
This is important because children behavioral problems have been studied in detail and researchers have tried to narrow down what plays into them and how to predict what type of children will have them; likewise, this study showed that both nonviolent and violent video games, do not play into a massive number of children’s behavioral problems. Previous studies have looked into whether or not video games influence a child’s behavioral problems. However, these types of studies will need to consider outside factors to find all of the reasons for a child’s behavioral problems. One conclusion that can be drawn from