A Justice Site
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Created: June 3, 2000
Latest update: June 3, 2001
jeannecurran@habermas.org.
This essay is based on Royal Bloodbath Suspect Is Nepal's King, for Now By Barry Bearak, New York Times, Front page, June 3, 2001.Essay will have to go up later. But here are some notes to guide you. Lonnie Athen's description of the behavioral component of violentization should be one starting point. We should also consider the recent developments in brain research on the role of the frontal lobe in controlling impulse. We still have a long way to go before we understand the shared complexity of the behavioral and biological components here. See some of my suggested questions in the links that follow. jeanne
- Biological Basis of Violent Behavior Deserves Attention
- The Process of Violentization Rhodes' Description of Lonnie Athens' paradigm.
- School Shootings and White Denial by Tim Wise.
Could we identify denial of some kind in the Nepal Royal Family Shootings?
- The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective A Teaching Essay.
Would constitutive theory view this as a case of "going Postal?" or would it look for the interdependence of the Crown Prince and his structural context, including the royal family?
- Comments on The Culture Club
How would the author of The Culture Club view the role of the young woman the Crown Prince wanted to marry? That she is lucky she didn't marry him? Or that it's a shame she didn't marry him, for that might have meant that the massacre would never have occurred? What does that say about guilt, agency, and individual responsibility for violence?
Related References:
- Editor in Nepal Is Jailed for Printing Account of Royal Massacre By Celia W. Dugger. backup