No Lessons to Be Learned

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In this paper, Kleck's essay, "There are no Lessons to be Learned from Littleton", is summarized and critiqued in an effort not only to better understand Kleck's viewpoint and its validity (or lack thereof).
Overall, the writer discusses that Kleck is saying that Littleton is an atypical event of gun violence and should not be over-analyzed as the beginning of a trend or something that is likely to continue with abandon in the future. Further, the writer notes that Kleck maintains that while time is wasted in micromanaging Littleton, other more important evidence and useful activities to prevent gun violence are not taking place as they should. The writer concludes that it is important to understand that all events, perhaps, need to be viewed as interrelated, and if not, the consequences could be severe. Upon conclusion of this paper, not only is the essay more fully explained, but the underlying issues that the essay presents are as well.

Outline:
Introduction
Summary of the Work
A Critique of the Work
Conclusion

From the Paper:

""There Are No Lessons to Be Learned From Littleton", upon close study of the essay itself, is part history lesson, part social commentary, and can fairly be categorized as a work of criminal justice/social work research, for lack of better terms. However, it must be understood that Kleck's essay, while discussing the events of the Littleton mass murder case, would not be accurately summarized by simply being called an essay about that case itself; rather, it would be more accurate to say that Kleck uses Littleton as a launching pad for his arguments. As a general overview and summary of Kleck's work, it was written with Littleton as its starting point, but from that starting point, the exploration of what caused Littleton, and other school shootings to occur is examined. Many people would automatically assume that the essay would blame all of the commonly cited reasons for such crimes, but that is clearly not the case when presenting direct quotes from Kleck's actual text."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Kleck, Gary. "There Are No Lessons to Be Learned from Littleton." Criminal Justice Ethics 18.1 (1999): 2.

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