Crisis Intervention

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Unit 8: Analysis And Application: Essay

By: Michelle Reichenbach

July 7, 2011

Crisis Intervention

CJ440

Professor: Patricia Wachtendorf

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There have been a number of major events in the last 30 years that have impacted the development of crisis intervention. The event that I have chosen to write about is the Columbine Massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado on April 20, 1999. “On this very sad day two seniors Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris carried out a full blown assault on the school during school hours with hundreds of kids and teachers present” (Levy, 1999). They had several guns, and over one hundred bombs as they walked the halls shooting everyone they seen. By the end of the day they had killed twelve students and one teacher before shooting themselves in the head.

Both men on the outside looked like normal ordinary teenage kids, but on the inside they we pure evil in hiding. Both kept journals, notes and videos of their horrible intentions as well as all the hatred they felt towards people and society as a whole. It even became evident that they planned this attack for more than a year before they carried it out. They spent their money from their job to buy material to make bombs and get guns plus ammunition. They were even looking for a better paying job so they could buy material to make fertilizer bombs like Timothy McVeigh.

Many myths have surfaced about why they did the killings, was it retaliation for arresting Timothy McVeigh since it happened one day after the anniversary of the Oklahoma Bombing or did...