CHILD PERPETRATORS AND VICTIMS OF MASS MURDER IN SCHOOLS

Abstract

New generations of children and young people have different characteristics, needs, interests and attitude towards others compared to previous generations. Today, children under the influence of social networks live in a virtual world, living for instant gratification without empathy for others. The crimes they commit are much more brutal, aggressive and cold-blooded, and the perpetrators are often children under the age of 14. The anomie of society and the crisis of the value system, as well as numerous other exogenous and endogenous criminogenic factors influence the increase in juvenile delinquents. One of the main characteristics of such a society is the expansion of violence. Violence in schools is often linked to murders in schools. From individual case studies, we will see that the violence at school was in many cases only a preliminary stage of later mass murders. The goal of this paper is actually to look at the causes, but also the specific circumstances of various mass murders in schools, where the perpetrators are children. One of the specific goals is to identify the profile of the perpetrator, his motives and the reasons why he committed the murders, but also to recognize whether the system could have been more sensitive and considerate to recognize the problem and prevent such tragic events in schools and outside. In the paper, we will also talk about the victims of mass murders in schools and the circumstances that led to such tragic events.